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by gautam on March 21, 2009
A man comes to a departmental store in his swanky BMW and shops around the store for his daily needs. When he approaches the counter to pay for his purchases the executive on the other side asks him a...
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by gautam on September 5, 2008
If you feel lazy enough to recharge your smart cards at the station then here is something which will support your habit. SNCF, a French public transport company is deploying RFID smart cards and you ...
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by gautam on September 28, 2007
I think you need this. Use it as a key ring and even make payments using it easily. This is the Visa Micro Tag which is the latest key fob payment device from Visa using the Visa payWave technology. U...
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by gautam on September 12, 2007
Do you hate standing in queues at fast food joints to order your favorite burger and feel that your hunger will literally subside by the time your turn comes for ordering? If you count yourself among ...
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by gautam on August 31, 2007
You must be very well aware about Hello Kitty Pez dispenser and if not then ask a toddler who will tell you about Pez candies available in dispensers with Hello Kitty characters and secondly you must ...
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by gautam on July 13, 2007
RFID has started to trickle down the masses and in the past I have talked about the various implementations which are taking place with regards to this technology. A few days back I had told you about...
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by Anita Campbell on February 1, 2007
As I was doing my year-in-review posts here at the RFID Weblog, noting what commentators felt were the achievements of RFID during 2006, one thing seemed missing to me. No one made a bid deal out of w...
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by Anita Campbell on August 30, 2006
When your entire business consists of selling fruit drinks ("smoothies"), I suppose you're always looking for something to differentiate the business.
Smoothie King apparently thinks it...
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by gautam on June 18, 2006
MasterCard and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) would be conducting trials of an RFID based contactless debit card which would replace cash for low value payments. The trials of the Oyster Card style paym...
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by Anita Campbell on April 6, 2006
Jimmy Atkinson has created a Report about contactless credit cards designed to educate consumers about the cards.
The Report is a primer of sorts on the topic of these RFID-enabled credit cards. The...
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by Anita Campbell on March 21, 2006
Contactless payment cards are one of the intriguing and promising areas in the RFID space these days.
While the Wal-Mart and DOD mandates tended to snap up the headlines, the payment systems using R...
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by Anita Campbell on December 16, 2005
And in the category of yet another inventive use for RFID comes a note from Anders at the RFID Buzz blog.
It turns out that the Swedish national bank is considering adding RFID tags to banknotes. And...
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by Anita Campbell on October 14, 2005
From an article in this month's Fast Company magazine, entitled "The Future's So Bright" comes this quote of executives making future prognostications:
"Radio-frequency technol...
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by Anita Campbell on July 22, 2005
I'm convinced that one of the main problems faced by executives today is that there is just TOO much news and information.
It bombards us: print, TV, radio, messaging, online. And there is no re...
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by Anita Campbell on June 3, 2005
This is part two of our Point/ Counterpoint series, in which we present two opposing views on Chase's new blink credit card. (Click here or scroll down for Part 1.)
For background information, re...
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by Anita Campbell on June 2, 2005
Today and tomorrow we're going to do something a little different: we present two opposing views on Chase's new blink credit card.
Chase recently announced it will become the first issuer to ...
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by Anita Campbell on May 30, 2005
Here's a recording describing how Chase's new Blink credit card, which is RFID-enabled, works. It is a segment on National Public Radio and it is about 10 minutes long.
Kim Zetter, a reporter...
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by Anita Campbell on May 10, 2005
Germany's huge mass transit system is getting an RFID-enabled ticketing system, according to a report in Wireless IT World:
"T-Systems International GmbH, the IT services and infrastructure ...
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by Anita Campbell on December 21, 2004
american express recently announced its first national rollout of a retail outlet using its contactless payment system called Express Pay. CVS drug stores will be accepting Express Pay at the registe...
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by Anita Campbell on October 19, 2004
Recently, on a tangentially-related post I made over at the popular culture blog, Blogcritics.org, the comments turned to RFID-enabled, contactless payment systems.
A reader there asked an interest...
