NFC support on upcoming BlackBerry Smartphones gets official  By
Kevin Michaluk on 17 Feb 2011 09:25 am  One of the biggest
announcements from Research In Motion at Mobile Congress World
2011 wasn't made via a press release, but rather by RIM's Co-CEO
Jim Balsillie when he was on stage during a keynote yesterday.
The announcement? He confirmed Near Field Communication (NFC)
support on future BlackBerry Smartphones. Of course CrackBerry
readers already knew this was coming via the leaked 2011
BlackBerry Smartphone Roadmap, but apparently the greater world
did not as RIM's stock actually rallied up a few dollars
yesterday on the news. We're still trying to hunt down the video
with Jim's speech, but you can check out the video above of Mike
Kirkup from BlackBerry Developer Day where he again confirms the
NFC news (as well magnetometer support in BlackBerry 6.1).  If
you're not familiar with NFC, there are three main ways to put
it to use in mobile:    • Card emulation - the NFC equipped
BlackBerry behaves like a