French Town Tests Cashless Society

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 25, 2006 @04:54AM from the didn't-know-you-could-drive-a-city dept.

SamiousHaze writes to mention a Silicon.com article about an attempt in a French tourist town, Caen, to do away with cash in some locales. From the article: "Among [the locations in the trial] is an underground car park; the town hall; a bus stop which can transmit timetable information; a cinema poster which downloads video trailers to users' mobiles; a local supermarket, where people can pay for their groceries with a mobile phone, and a tourist information sign outside the historic Abbaye des Hommes. By touching the mobile against the 'Flytag' logo at each of these locations, users can pay for services or receive information straight to their phone."

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Re:Loss of privacy by mapkinase · 2006-04-25 05:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

That was exactly my first impression from this post.

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Re:Damn by mwilli · 2006-04-25 05:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

Even in the Star Trek universe they have latinum.

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not really recent new isn't it ? by manuel.flury · 2006-04-25 06:55 · Score: 1, Redundant

C'est une nouvelle qui n'est pas très fraîche ! : (mardi 18 octobre 2005)
"Flytag"? by payndz · 2006-04-25 07:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

But this is France! Shouldn't they call it something annoyingly overcomplicated like 'étiquette de mouche' to protect the language?
(Blame Google for the translation. :p)

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