2022-05-14 Early Rainy Season Will Pixel Watch finally deliver global NFC Google Pay?Ever since Apple made global NFC standard on all iPhone and Apple Watch models in 2017, global NFC has become a litmus test of ultimate Apple-like user friendliness. When inbound devices can add Suica, it’s not only cool, […]
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August 8, 2021 Pixel 6 Tensor and the secure element After many years of rumors Google finally unveiled their custom silicon, though details won’t be known until Pixel 6 devices go on sale. Dieter Bohn wrote: Tensor is an SoC, not a single processor. And so while it’s fair to […]
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August 3, 2021 Busy week for Apple Pay and Mobile FeliCa Since last week’s Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services hearings regarding the so called Apple Pay monopoly and the pointless debate of Android only Host Card Emulation (HCE) ‘virtual secure element’ vs. a hardware embedded secure […]
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July 27, 2021 The ‘Apple Pay is a monopoly’ soap opera continues ZDNet reports Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services hearings that are focused on, yet again, forcing Apple to ‘open up’ their NFC chip. Actually they should be talking about the secure element in Apple Silicon […]
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July 27, 2021 With so little real news to write about these days, I’m trying out a weekly digest format instead of individual itty bitty posts. Sticking with a mundane regular schedule is also good practice, we’ll see how it goes. Tokyo 2020 TP Transit CardForeign media (already in Japan […]