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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Octopus - Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Watch - Docomo - FeliCa - iPhone - MIFARE - Touchless

iOS 15 Apple Pay Wallet preview: the Express Mode difference

Express Transit Suica ruins the Apple Pay experience for using anything else. You want Apple Pay to work that way everywhere but it doesn’t. Most of the time we trudge […]

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Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Docomo - EMV - FeliCa - NFC - NFC-Felica - QR Code Payments - Suica - Touchless - Transit

A great reality check

I was pleasantly surprised to find some hits coming from a website called limitless possibility, followed the link and discovered a great podcast by Luc-Olivier Dumais-Blais and Yanik Magnan on […]

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Apple Pay Suica - CASHLESS - Docomo - Mobile Payments - QR Code Payments - Suica

T-POINT? We don’t need no stinkin’ T-POINT

In the ephemeral COVID era we live in assurance don’t come easy, especially with JP cashless market data. Half the fun is taking the crumbs you find, a 1000 person […]

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Docomo - IPv6 - Mobile and Web

NTT Flet’s fails in the Covid traffic crunch

NTT FLET’S internet service has been around forever in many configurations, the latest being Flet’s Hikari ‘optical fiber’. I call it flexible fiber because NTT uses the term Hikari when […]

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Rethinking Face ID in the Face Mask Touchless Era

When iPhone X came out in November 2017, IT journalist Tsutsumu Ishikawa named Suica the Apple Pay winner. What he really meant to say was that Suica Express Transit was […]

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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Suica - Docomo - FeliCa - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - Suica - Touchless

iOS 14 Apple Pay: going the distance with Ultra Wideband

It’s that time of year again to look into the WWDC crystal ball and see what changes might be in store for Apple Pay. 2019 was an exciting year with […]

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