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Sprint Launches Pinsight Touch NFC Platform

By TechTaffy Desk

pinsight_touchSprint is releasing Pinsight Touch, an open platform for storing and accessing credentials on a mobile device. The company is working with mobile software company Sequent, and Pinsight Media, a Spint-owned advertising and mobile commerce company for the platform.

Pinsight Touch offers a direct path for credential issuers to enable their own branded applications with Near Field Communication (NFC), and to share secured access to those credentials with other trusted applications, says Sprint.

[Image courtesy: Sprint]

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