Nokia has launched NFC Hub, to help businesses begin using Near Field Communications solutions. Businesses (or, indeed, anyone) can buy generic NFC-tagged posters which direct users with NFC-enabled phones to Facebook, Foursquare, etc, as needed. NFC tags start at £3 each, business cards at £11 each, and posters and stickers with tags embedded run from £20 to £25 each, all ordered through the Hub.

In the Symbian world, NFC just means the Nokia C7 at present, and even that needs Symbian Anna loaded, but other handsets are sure to arrive in due course. Away from Symbian, the best known NFC-enabled smartphone is the Samsung-made Google Nexus S, a pioneer device.

We'll be investigating NFC further in due course - watch this space!

A couple of brief demo videos of the tags in action, from NFC Hub: