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         <title><![CDATA[Mobile phones could replace cash by 2016]]></title>
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	Telegraph:&nbsp; Research by Forrester, commissioned by PayPal, found that “2016 will be the year when UK shoppers will be able to use their mobile phones to pay for things on the high street with digital money rather than cash, cheques or cards”.

	The findings are based on interviews with 10 senior executives from major UK businesses, representing a combined 2010 turnover of £85 billion.

	Almost half of all mobile users purchase something via the device every three months, the study...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[ViaTag System Turns Cars Into Contactless Payment Devices]]></title>
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	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 services at a carwash, or gas station. The same technology could also be used by rental car agencies to manage the parking of vehicles. Initially, MotionID's ViaTag system, developed with help from the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:06:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Texas school district selects Radiant RFID for student accountability solution ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 Radiant RFID platform detects directionality of student on or off the bus.
The bus tracking/manifesting module makes certain that students are on the correct bus while providing school personnel with...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Visa: Goodbye to Mag-Stripe Credit Cards, Hello to Chip Cards, NFC]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[YahooNews:&#160; 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 used for decades. In its place, Visa said it will move to both so-called EMV or "Chip and PIN" technology. Visa also again endorsed near-field-communication (NFC) technology, which embeds payment...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Visa to speed up migration to mobile wallet]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 communication” (NFC) technology that allows shoppers to make payments with little more than a wave of their phone.
NFC technology passes encrypted information between devices at close range without contact....]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[USA sees first fingerprint-enabled NFC payment]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[PlanetBiometrics:&#160; 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 completed the first fingerprint-enabled NFC payment transaction in the USA. Together the companies hope to create solutions that transform today’s smartphones into highly secure mobile wallets.
Reference...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[FaceCash brings biometric payments to iPhones]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ThirdFactor:&#160; 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 FaceCash app enables a user to do is replace his credit cards or cash by linking the app with an account to pay for items at stores and have their phone scanned in lieu of a card or paying cash.
While the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Golden Handcuffs: New Wristbands Make Mobile Payments Easy]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 there will be mobile payment wristbands you can wave across vendor terminals to buy all sorts of things, maybe even a get-out-of-jail-free card.
It takes the meaning of being slapped on the wrist to a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[RFID Wristband Supports Cashless Payment]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 opportunities. With RFID technology, the wristband also supports cashless payment for concession items and other merchandise
Operating from 13.56 MHz to 125 KHz, the reusable RFID wristband can be...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Leave your wallet at home: go chashless! You have to see this video!]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[From CNN and @mijadedios
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         <pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
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