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NFC support

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- [Instructor] NFC stands for Near Field Communication it allows phones, laptops, tablets, or other devices to easily share data with other NFC equipped devices or tags. This involved from radio frequency identification which you may know of as RFID. RFID is of course behind those security scan cards that you use to get into the office every day or even that help you bypass the tollbooth on your morning commute. NFC is very much like RFID but NFC is limited to communication within about four inches and most people consider NFC's small radius a major security benefit. It's probably the reason you see NFC has taken off as a secure alternative to credit cards like ApplePay. The technology can be used for more than just buying coffee at Starbucks however. NFC can also transfer data like videos, contact information, and photos between an NFC enabled device and another device or tag. And Filemaker 19 has introduced support…

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