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Contactless Payment Turf Wars: PiTaPa Pitfalls

Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Transit Platforms >Contactless Payment Turf Wars: PiTaPa Pitfalls Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Why Oyster is missing from mobile Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Tapping the potential of […]

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JR East and Sony creating ‘Super Suica’ card

JR East and Sony announced co-development of a ‘national’ super Suica card that will replace local Japanese transit card variations such as ICOCA, TOICA, SUGOCA, Kitaca, PASMO, manaca, Nimoca, Hayaken and others […]

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Important Suica App update due October 10

JR East announced an important Suica App update that will drop immediately after the early morning Mobile Suica maintenance window that ends 5:30 am JST. The new version is Suica […]

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Apple Pay Suica performance improvements coming with iOS 12.1 update

Good news for Apple Pay Suica users: word coming down Apple developer channels is that iOS 12.1 contains Apple Pay Suica fixes and performance improvements. Apple Pay Suica users report […]

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The final word on global FeliCa iPhone XS, iPhone XR, Apple Watch Series 4

Apple is slowly updating Apple Pay eligible device information and Suica information and finally got around to updating the Apple Pay Japan page eligible device specs. It’s the final word that iPhone […]

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Juggling domestic and international App Store accounts in iOS 12

I can’t find the link right now (found it) but some blogs reported back in early summer that iOS 12 iOS 11.3 gained the ability to update App Store content […]

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