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DoCoMo Starts Cell Phone Smart Card Trial

Posted by michael on from the swipe-and-run dept.

virtualXTC writes "The Japanese phone company NTT DoCoMo and electronics giant Sony will begin a trial of cell phones with embedded smart cards with speed pass-like capabilities that will allow the user to purchase anything from travel passes to movie tickets just by placing their cell phone near an electronic reader. Potentially the smart card 'can serve as an ID card, travel pass, or login for a corporate computer network, all at the same time'. If they'd just attach a money clip to it, I could get rid of my wallet entirely."

3 of 130 comments (clear)

  1. Watch out .. they'll be sued by directv. by junkymailbox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    DirecTV calls all of these "smart cards readers" pirate devices. DirecTV Defense

  2. Re:NOT QUITE FIRST POST BUT I DON'T FUCKING CARE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I actually admire you more for facing the possibility that you didn't make first post.

    I love you for not caring about it.

    There's a lot of love in this room.

  3. American Express = Bad.. by msimm · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    As someone blessed to work with American Express as a client and a customer (both through business) I'd like to toss in a THEY ARE THE WORST COMPANY EVER. I don't have any idea why retailers actually agree to work with them, their rates are <b>HIGH</b> and their cards are barely more common then the Dinners Club or the Discover card. As a customer I am buried in an avalanch of marketing promotions and *special deals* on luggage or travelours insurance. This is the one company that single handedly remindes me that spam isn't solely an internet related problem.

    Of course its a good thing their rates are high, because flooding our mailbox must cost them a pretty penny.

    </rant>

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