Who would have thought that team FitBit would beat team Pixel to the market with global NFC devices? That is what happened with the release of FitBit Sense and Versa […]
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 […]
UWB Touchless Express Transit and Apple Pay for iOS 15?
A recent sudden surge of hits from Hong Kong accessing my December 2019 UWB Touchless Mobile FeliCa post seemed odd. I dug around and it appears that Hong Kong MTR, […]
JR East eliminating 70% of ticket offices by 2025 in ticketless push
In the run-up to the June 27 Eki-Net reboot next month JR East released a nice looking PR release with the first 2 pages promoting a ticketless future. On page […]
The VISA JP Apple Pay announcement and digital banking wars
MacRumors Sami Fathi: Customers with Visa cards…will be able to add their card to their Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch. Me: I like MacRumors but the writer here has […]
Japan’s new economic zone: Rakuten
The April 30 addition of iPhone 12 lineup to Rakuten Mobile marked the transformation of Rakuten Mobile into a first tier carrier on the same level of Docomo, KDDI au […]