How the French have embraced the wireless lifestyle
By Jo Best, 20 April 2006 10:45
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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