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PayPal launches its Xoom mobile remittance service in Europe

PayPal expands its international money transfer service Xoom to 32 markets across Europe — Xoom — “Today, PayPal launched Xoom — its international money transfer service — in 32 markets across Europe. People in these markets can now use Xoom to quickly send money, pay bills or top up phones to more than 130 markets internationally.”


NFC World

KegDroid pours beer with NFC

KegDroid

Google staffer Paul Carff has produced a video showing an NFC-enabled beer tap that uses NFC badges, an NFC reader/writer, a Motorola Xoom tablet and an Arduino microcontroller to automatically dispense a brew to badge holders — provided their badge contains the ID information necessary to prove that they are, for instance, old enough to drink alcohol... More