1 Sony Ericsson announced a range of Android NFC phones1 13 with NXP, the semiconductor business formerly owned by Philips. So using our phones to pay for things finally looks set to happen. Using our phone to talk to other devices via Bluetooth already happens, hands-free Bluetooth headsets being the most ubiquitous example. Using our phone to interrogate and communicate with microdevice networks, for example sensor networks is also beginning to happen. We can go online to look at video feed from CCTV cameras, we can go online to turn appliances on and off at home, we can go online to turn lights on and off at home via ZigBee or WiFi-enabled wireless switches. But just because we can do these things does not mean we will. Many of us are quite happy opening and closing our own curtains. A suitable point on which to end this chapter. 13 www.nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com/2011/06/16/38069/sony-ericsson-to-launch-range-of-android infc-phones/. Server Software On 5 January 1941, while flying from Blackpool to RAF Kidlington near Oxford, Amy Johnson went off course in poor weather and drowned after bailing out into the Thames Estuary. She was run over by the ship that was sent to her rescue. It is assumed she lost her sense of direction, although an alternative theory is that she was shot down by the RAF after failing to provide correct identification. Glen Miller met a similar end (probably)2 when hit by a jettisoned bomb. Either way it's a telling illustration that it is easy to get lost in a cloud and not a great idea to rely on less than foolproof identification procedures. January 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of the cellular industry in the UK and I helped to organise a great big party3 to help raise some funds for a new communications gallery at the Science Museum. The thing is that in an age of austerity it is not deemed politically correct to have a party unless you can prove the event was also informationally useful, which it was and to prove it I am going to crossreference some of the presentations fro