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Apple - Apple Pay Suica - EMV - NFC-Felica - Suica

Why Americans aren’t using their phones to make payments in stores

Yes folks, yet another China is beating out the U.S. on mobile payments story based on quotes from Wall Street market analysts. Yahoo Financial reporter Krystal Hu stitches together a […]

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Apple - Apple Pay Suica - EMV - NFC-Felica - Suica - Transit

Muddled WWDC18 Apple Pay Rumors

The Information article quoted in reports by 9to5 Mac and Apple Insider is a strange piece. It reads like the reporters don’t know if they are writing about hardware or software. Their […]

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Mobile Payments

Yes, EMV Contactless Sucks for Transit

It’s fascinating that Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) dumped the fast FeliCa (rated 200 millisecond transaction but Octopus clocks in at around 100ms) behind EZ-Link cards to roll their own faster […]

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Japan Transit IC Card Daily Transactions Top 7 Million

The Japan Transit IC Card Association announced that daily Transit IC card e-money transactions, which include e-money purchases with plastic transit cards, Apple Pay Suica and Mobile Suica, have topped […]

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Apple - Apple Pay Suica - iPhone - NFC-Felica - Suica

Google Pay + HCE-F ≠ FeliCa Suica

Google Pay users outside of Japan who do not have a Osaifu-Keitai compatible model are waking up to the rude fact that Google Pay does not give them all that […]

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More Google Pay Suica MIA

Japanese Twitter users are posting lots of interesting details and the list of Google Pay Suica limitations continues to grow: one Suica per phone, no Suica Commuter support, no Shinkansen […]

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