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NEC Solutions, Tagsys to promote smart tags

SINGAPORE - NEC Solutions Asia Pacific Pte of Japan has teamed up with Tagsys SA of France to jointly develop smart tag businesses in Southeast Asia.

The two companies hope to win contracts from governments and businesses by presenting a range of smart tag applications.

As a first step, NEC Solutions Asia Pacific plans to promote the use of smart tags in Singapore by presenting the results of NEC Corp's smart tag experiments in Japan and elsewhere.

It is believed that the Singaporean government is strongly interested in building an industry out of the products.

The two partners hope that smart tags become commercialized in Singapore on a large-scale ahead of the rest of the world, making it easier to sell related products and services to neighboring countries and Japan.

Tagsys has already supplied more than 40 million smart tags and 10,000 reader devices around the world.

(Asia Pulse/Nikkei)

May 29, 2004

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