The prospective market for downloading and managing applications on contactless mobile phones is becoming crowded, with at least five companies vying for what they hope will one day be a booming business. But Germany-based Giesecke and Devrient was the first vendor to rise to the surface, helped in the spring of 2006 by MasterCard Worldwide. The payment card organization, which is aggressively marketing its contactless PayPass application on cards, endorsed G&D's technology to securely download the service to handsets that support Near Field Communication. The much-touted NFC phones - which have not yet hit the market in any significant way-pack contactless chips and short-range radio antennas, allowing the phones to act like cards or readers.
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机译：在非接触式手机上下载和管理应用程序的潜在市场正变得越来越拥挤，至少有五家公司争相希望它们有一天会成为一个蓬勃发展的业务。但是总部位于德国的Giesecke and Devrient是首家浮出水面的供应商，这在2006年春季获得了万事达卡国际组织的帮助。这家支付卡组织积极推广其非接触式PayPass应用程序在卡上的销售，它认可了捷德公司的技术，以将该服务安全地下载到支持近距离通信的手机上。广受吹捧的NFC手机-尚未以任何重要方式投放市场，包括非接触式芯片和短距离无线电天线，从而使手机可以像卡或读卡器一样工作。
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