AquaBit Spirals CEO Tomohiro Hagiwara responded to my post and took up the Softcream Cashless Index (SCI) challenge, promising to deliver a SCI score of “over 5” with his SmartPlate […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - MIFARE - NFC - Transit
Sydney Opal expands EMV coverage, next stop: Apple Pay Express Transit
Transport for NSW is expanding open loop EMV bank card support on the Opal transit fare system to include buses next month in addition to implementing Opal fare caps and […]
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NFC Tag Apple Pay and Japanese Softcream
Summer is here and the increasing number of Apple Pay Suica inbound tweets are fun to read as always. I saw inbound in action recently at a local station NewDays, […]
Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - Transit
Tweets of the Week: Dear TfL please hurry up with that Apple Pay EMV Express Transit support
Some people are impatient. Especially at rush hour waiting behind iPhone users fumbling with Apple Pay Face/Touch ID authentication before going through crowded Transport for London (TfL) transit gates that […]
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Financial Times Dissin’ Japan again: The painful path of curing Japan of its cash addiction
The UK media has a thing about Japan. Japan must always be portrayed as ‘pathetic’. Pathetic losers, pathetically isolated, pathetically out of step, arrogant, etc. Does this make UK readers […]
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Growing the Global NFC Footprint
One of the challenges facing Hong Kong Octopus Card expansion to digital wallet platforms is the fragmented state of Android hardware and the small footprint of Android global NFC devices. […]