16:00~18:00 October 5, 2021 JSTApple Pay / iCloud system status updated to ‘outage resolved’ at 16:00 JST. Mobile Suica and Mobile PASMO Apple Pay services were also listed as ‘restored’ […]
Mobile Payments
Global NFC FitBit Sense and Versa 3
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 […]
Mobile Transit
JR East Eki-Net overview: will mobile ticketing go mainstream with v2.0 JRE POINT integration?
One unfortunate legacy of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) breakup and privatization in the late 1980’s was a fragmented ticketing system. The JNR paper ticket system worked very well. I […]
SmartEX - EXPRESS - Suica - Transit
My JR-EAST mess
My JR-EAST, like a lot of JR East software services, is a nice idea, poorly implemented. It’s an attempt to unify scattered account login IDs for various JR East web […]
Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica
Mobile Suica foreign VISA reward points change with the Apple Pay VISA JP agreement
Foreign issue VISA card holders using Apple Pay Suica beware, you might be in for a rude surprise when you get the monthly statement. A reader sent some very interesting […]
Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica - FeliCa - NFC - PASMO - Reader Question - Suica
Is it possible to move Suica to a different iCloud account?
asking for a friend but is there a way to remove a PASMO from one iCloud account, and move it over to a different iCloud account? My friend is a […]