Photos: Caen's NFC pilot in action
Summary: How the French have embraced the wireless lifestyle
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Here a plaque outside the Abbaye offers tourist information using NFC.
If a tourist places their NFC-equipped mobile against the Flytag logo – in the upper left hand corner of the sign – information about the Abbaye will be transmitted directly to the phone, either by phone call or SMS.
Photo credit: Jo Best
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