The latest OMNY bump in the road perfectly captures the downside of making contactless credit/debit cards a one size fits all solution. As the New York Post piece (via MacRumors) […]
Suica joins Coke ON IC, is it worth it?
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, […]
A consolation prize for Octopus users with iPhone
After the unfortunately delay of Apple Pay Octopus earlier this month, Octopus Card Limited released an updated version of the iOS Octopus App that offers a small consolation prize: Octopus […]
Coming later this year attractions that didn’t make it, and one that did
Now that Apple is in full holiday season vacation mode, here is one last look at some promised ‘coming later this year’ services that didn’t make it (and a last […]
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 […]
The Super Suica Touchless Connection
The recent flurry of press releases and news reports for touchless walkthrough transit gates and handsfree touchless store payments sheds considerably more light on the next generation Suica architecture and […]