Cashless Society

ViaTag System Turns Cars Into Contactless Payment Devices

08/21/2011 10:06
RFID Journal:Aug. 19, 2011—German startup company MotionID Technologies has developed a system that it envisions could change the way people purchase goods and services, using RFID tags attached to a car's windshield to pay for parking as well as paying for hamburgers at a drive-through, or...

Texas school district selects Radiant RFID for student accountability solution

08/10/2011 21:32
The Keller Independent School District based in Keller, Texas has selected Radiant RFID to manage a new pay-for-ride bus transportation system. Using RFID tags and readers, the Radiant RFID solution will operate in much the same way as a city bus pass. Combined with Motorola’s FX 7400 readers, the...

Visa: Goodbye to Mag-Stripe Credit Cards, Hello to Chip Cards, NFC

08/10/2011 10:58
YahooNews:  Visa said Tuesday that it is making an aggressive effort to push U.S. consumers onto credit cards with embedded security chips, a technology that has become prevalent overseas. Visa also said that it sees an end to the common "mag-stripe" credit card, which the United States has...

Visa to speed up migration to mobile wallet

08/09/2011 20:24
Visa Inc. V-N said it would accelerate the move to chip technology and speed up the use of mobile payments in the United States, as the world's largest payment processor tries to corner a share in the nascent smartphone payments market. High-end smartphones are now shipping with “near-field...

USA sees first fingerprint-enabled NFC payment

08/03/2011 10:14
PlanetBiometrics:  They are some of the hottest technology buzzwords around, so it's little wonder that technologists are salivating at the prospect of the coming together of Near Field Communications (NFC), biometrics and mobile wallets. NXP, AuthenTec and DeviceFidelity claim to have...

FaceCash brings biometric payments to iPhones

08/03/2011 10:10
ThirdFactor:  A new application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod called FaceCash offers face recognition as a means of identity verification for mobile-based payments made at brick and mortar points of sale, according to an International Business Times New York article. Essentially, what the...

Golden Handcuffs: New Wristbands Make Mobile Payments Easy

07/27/2011 21:32
Banks are so used to getting slapped on the wrist and having to pay civil fines, they’ve come up with a way to kill two birds with one stone. You used to have to make a phone call to get bailed out of trouble. Today you can use a mobile payment app on your phone for certain services. But, tomorrow...

RFID Wristband Supports Cashless Payment

07/27/2011 04:55
DAILY RFID has announced the release of its latest RFID wristband deigned to for applications including audience access control for ticketed events and to VIP areas. Each wristband also has a unique ID for tracking and tracing the audience in the party, also making it difficult for counterfeiting...

Leave your wallet at home: go chashless! You have to see this video!

02/10/2011 18:39
From CNN and @mijadedios

Polish government calls for country to become a cashless society

01/30/2011 08:03
From Souidcard and @Endtimesnews:  The Polish government has drawn up plans for the country to become a predominantly cashless society within three years, it has been revealed. The Finance Ministry is currently considering the merits of increasing the proportion of e-money payments...

Britain closer to cashless society

11/07/2010 14:10
From ITN:  New credit cards with 'contactless' technology are being rolled out to millions of credit card users, a sign that cash could one day become a thing of the past. The new technology on the cards allow users to simply 'tap' their credit cards over a payment terminal for purchases...

Sweden Considers Cashless Society

09/22/2010 20:20
From Numismaster.com:  Sweden may be a member of the European Union, but to date it has opted not to join the EU’s currency union. If some people in Sweden have their way it may never be necessary to join the currency union, since they would rather see all coins and bank notes replaced with...
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