Sections Service OverviewsmartEX RegistrationEX Reservation RegistrationIC Card LinkingeTicket Reservation • Purchase IntroJR Central offers the EX Online Ticketing Services and accompanying EX App for Shinkansen mobile eTickets that can be […]
Mobile Payments
iOS 18.1 NFC & SE Platform: final destination for the iPhone open NFC saga
Apple announced a new iOS 18.1 API for iPhone: the NFC & SE Platform, a new framework for in-app NFC transactions using iPhone XS and later Secure Element. The key part of […]
Mobile Transit
Lazy Galapagos Media Lizards and the Transit IC Problem
Anytime you see ‘galapagos’ mentioned in any Japanese related tech article, know this: the writer is a lazy hack spicing up a crappy article with a sexy title. It’s no […]
Apple
Apple Maps Real-Time Transit comes to Tokyo…sort of
Apple announced Apple Maps Real-Time transit for the Tokyo area, for real unlike last time. The fuzzy Japanese press release says there is real-time transit information for ‘more than’ 20 […]
Mobile Payments
The Open NFC Lie
The whole EU vs Apple DMA sage boils down to one thing: “unfair” is never defined, never clear-cut. I’m no fan of what John Gruber writes these days, but his […]
Mobile Payments
iOS 18 Apple Pay: Code Payments at last (aka Apple Pay vs 3DS)
The state of online payments is far from ideal, it’s full of glitches, gotchas and different kinds of authentication that don’t always work well. We all have experience with cards […]