The latest OMNY bump in the road perfectly captures the downside of making contactless credit/debit cards a one size fits all solution. As the New York Post piece (via MacRumors) […]
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Apple Maps Hong Kong Transit goes live for mainland China
UPDATE: a new Octopus Cards Limited (OCL) support mail address for Apple Pay Octopus has come to light. Echoing the 2016 Apple Maps Japan Transit launch just before Apple Pay […]
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2019 Tidbits
The end of the year season is down for the count. Barring any news items like Apple Pay Octopus really launching this year, this is probably my last news post […]
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The Super Suica Touchless Connection
The recent flurry of press releases and news reports for touchless walkthrough transit gates and handsfree touchless store payments sheds considerably more light on the next generation Suica architecture and […]
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The QR Code JR Gate Equation
Every year my office sponsors a company trip. This ‘company spirit’ building practice used to be standard in Japan but the custom has eroded considerably since the end of the […]
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Another week, another new JR East gate design
JR East sure has a lot of irons in the fire. We have Super Suica, the new eTicket system, the Touchless walkthrough gate, and now we have yet another new […]