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Football club tags fans with RFID tickets
News London-based Premiership football club Fulham has started issuing RFID-enabled smartcard tickets to fans to cut queues at the turnstiles on match days and increase safety around the stadium. McGrory said Fulham will also... [15 Nov 2006]
Mobile calls allowed on half of all airlines by 2008
News A third of airline tickets worldwide are now sold online, compared with just 20 per cent last year, and 72 per cent of those tickets were sold through the airlines' own websites. The percentage of... [01 Nov 2006]
Chiltern Railways trials SMS mobile phone tickets
News Chiltern Railways is trialling a system that will allow electronic train tickets to be sent directly to passengers' mobile phones by text message. The mobile trial will initially be... [24 Oct 2006]
How to grow your own eco-friendly tech team
Case Study The trust benefits by being able to sell more tickets directly, rather than through third parties, and by saving on postage, printing and distribution costs. For example, it has just begun using mobile... [13 Sep 2006]
Blinkered thinking holding back mobile NFC
News So far, Europe has seen limited rollouts of the technology, including a deployment in the German city of Hanau, where commuters can use their phones to pay for bus tickets. NFC phones are having a harder time becoming... [12 Sep 2006]
Pay-by-text parking comes to York
News Parking attendants will also be getting in on the act, using BlackBerrys over GPRS to check up on drivers' account details in their area and ensure all drivers without pay-and-display tickets have used the... [05 Sep 2006]
Eden Project goes for mobile queue jumping
News The Cornish attraction has implemented a system from Swiftpass that will allow visitors to The Eden Project to get tickets delivered on their phones and jump the queues of traditional, paper ticket holders. [31 Jul 2006]
Microsoft trumpets pay-as-you-go PCs
News Agatstein said: "If you go to Brazil, people buy movie tickets on credit but the PC infrastructure is not that developed. More than three-fourths of mobile phones are bought using prepaid minutes, he said. [22 May 2006]
VIVA TV Launches First Mobile Commerce SMS Service for Music Fans
White Paper Viewers could send an SMS with the IOKEY code to request more information about the artist currently playing, find out tour dates, buy concert tickets, and even purchase CDs. At the end of 2002, VIVA TV, the number one... [16 May 2006]
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: Hyundai
White Paper The prizes of the competition included 1 Hyundai Accent Era, 10 tickets for the World Cup, and every 50th entrant won a soccer ball.potential customers participated in the test drive and SMS campaign. [12 May 2006]
Are cash machines heading for extinction?
News Mott says: "In some countries you can buy tickets on them but [UK] ATMs are busier so there's a problem with queues. Graham Mott, head of development for Link, the ATM company, says: "Mobile phone... [25 Apr 2006]
Photos: High-tech at the heart of US sport
Photo Schlough said this secondary market is to head off fans going to eBay and while he accepted it may "cannibalise" the primary market, providing the service may make fans think twice about not renewing their season ticket if they know they... [21 Apr 2006]
Photos: Caen's NFC pilot in action
Photo Another application that Duchelet uses every day is this parking facility, which issues NFC users with virtual tickets and charges them for their stay. If a tourist places their NFC-equipped mobile... [20 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.03.06
Round-Up Anybody taking up any kind of offer on theatre tickets may well be familiar with the annoyance of poor mobile phone etiquette. Mentioning the name of a registered sex offender in order to advertise... [17 Mar 2006]
RFID payments on track in Scandinavia
News Benedicte Overgaard, project manager for mobile terminals at NSB, said in a statement: "Working in the train validating and selling tickets is a different environment from sitting in front of a computer... [01 Nov 2005]
