Coke ON is one more point gimmick app that offers a free beverage for points, bottle top ‘stamps’, earned with purchases via FeliCa/Coke ON IC (Transit IC, Rakuten, nanaco, PiTaPa, […]
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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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Sony, JR East, DNP, Aquabit Spirals team up for NFC tag payments
AquaBit Spirals CEO Tomo Hagiwara took up my challenge earlier this year to raise the Japanese Softcream Cashless Index (SCI) to ‘over 5’ in time for the Tokyo Olympics. I […]
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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 […]
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Docomo merging QR payment app functions into iD and Apple Pay
In a classic, ‘isn’t this how it was supposed to work all along?’ fumble, Docomo is finally doing the right thing by merging the ‘rush rush we have a QR […]