The Nokia Ventures Organization
generates new business ideas that fall
outside the scope of Nokia’s core business
units. The organization recently
proposed using mobile phones as an
RFID tag reader. This functionality
could give consumers new interaction
modalities and service discovery methods
by capitalizing on the promise of
RFID tag technology.3 The broad market
penetration of mobile phones in the
Nordic countries has achieved the first
truly pervasive computing platform, so
it’s only natural to add pervasive consumer
services and capabilities to it. In
addition, mobile phone capabilities have
developed rapidly, making them good