After the October 21 launch of Apple Pay WAON and Apple Pay nanaco e-Money cards, I updated my Apple Pay Japan chart. All I did was add WAON and nanaco logos to the official payment logos listed on the Apple Pay JP page (still not updated as of November 19): […]
EMV - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica
Are Chinese manufactured PAX NFC readers a security risk?
Probably not, but the FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology report from Krebs on Security has some thrilling bits: “FBI and MI5 are conducting an intensive investigation into PAX,” the source said. “A major US payment processor began asking questions about network packets originating from PAX terminals and were […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - EMV - FeliCa - MIFARE - NFC
My Cousin Apple Pay
So the EU is going ahead with ‘open NFC’ antitrust charges against Apple. As posted back in August 2020, the whole open vs closed debate is not easy to define. It’s probably easier to look at it from the simplistic App Store debate of letting developers bypass Apple’s in-app payment […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica - CASHLESS - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - PASMO - Suica
SEIYU Stores finally add NFC payment support for Apple Pay Suica • PASMO
That didn’t take long. The announcement Walmart was selling majority control of SEIYU over to KKR and Rakuten was made November 16. And what was the first new management move? Adding Suica and Transit IC payment support which means Apple Pay Suica • PASMO and Google Pay Suica can finally, […]
Apple - Apple Pay Transit - EMV - iPhone - MIFARE - Mobile Payments - NFC - Transit
Dear Jane, we fucked up, sincerely MTA
The piecemeal MTA OMNY rollout is a lesson how not to do a transition from old system to new system. A case where poor design, poor management choices and unanticipated user interaction, each insignificant in isolation, snowball into a nagging long term problem. The problem goes like this: (1) Apple […]