Apple is using it’s just announced September 12 event to show off the new NFC Wallet Pass feature of iOS 12 and watchOS 5 to invited journalists and guests running […]
Contactless Payments White Paper
The Secure Technology Alliance White Paper Contactless Payments: Proposed Implementation Recommendations is an interesting read, not only for what it says but for finding out what’s on the collective mind of […]
Value Capture and the Ecosystem of Transit Platforms
AppleInsider Daniel Eran Dilger’s very long editorial Apple Services and the ecosystem of value capture has an interesting bit at the beginning: The term Value Capture applies to rail and transit operators […]
MIFARE and Taiwan Transit Coming with iOS 12 Apple Pay?
It’s interesting how different story threads weave together. Taiwan has been running a huge “come visit Taiwan” campaign in Japan the past year or so. Even Mastercard Japan has been […]
Apple Pay Predicted to Account for Half of Mobile Wallet Users by 2020
Must be a slow news day: market research blah coughed up by Juniper Research is mindlessly regurgitated by MacRumors and AppleInsider. Free advertising for Juniper Research, you go Juniper Research. To […]
Dead HCE-F, Global NFC ≠ Global FeliCa, and Other NFC Confusion
NFC is a confusing name. It’s an upside down umbrella that catches every single naming convention connected with it: Type A, Type F, EMV, FeliCa, MIFARE, etc. There are also […]