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All change please: Your train ticket will never be the same again
News Smart ticketing, where a ticket is held on a chip rather than a piece of paper, was popularised in the UK by London's contactless Oyster card scheme, introduced in 2003. It also says contactless bank... [20 Aug 2009]
O2, NatWest cash in with prepay Visa cards
News Analysts have long been predicting a coming together of the mobile and payments markets owing to the ubiquity of mobile phones and the rise of contactless payment technologies such as NFC (near field communications),... [16 Jul 2009]
Barclaycard, Orange share a mobile wallet
News The pair said they will work together to launch new products and services to enable their combined base of more than 28 million customers to use their mobiles to make payments and better manage their finances - with the aim of... [09 Mar 2009]
Brits still not that into contactless payments
News UK consumers continue to be largely unwowed by the idea of ditching cash and using contactless technologies instead, such as mobile wallet phones and wave and pay cards. Contactless pre-payment cards... [12 Feb 2009]
Visa demos the credit card with its very own PIN pad
News Alzetta told silicon.com the transition from contactless payment cards to near field communication (NFC) mobile devices is also firmly on Visa's long-term agenda and to that end the company has entered into an agreement... [10 Nov 2008]
Barclays contactless: More cards, more retailers
News Barclays is preparing to expand its range of 'wave and pay' cards and convince more retailers to accept contactless payments as it seeks to beat its target of getting one million contactless cards out to... [08 Sep 2008]
Five-year wait for O2 Oyster card mobiles
News Mobile operator O2 has announced the results of a six-month mobile wallet trial in London - and, despite claims consumers are enamoured of having contactless travel capabilities embedded in their phone,... [02 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up And this weekend's O2 Wireless festival promises that some lucky punters will have access to luxury toilets with the help of contactless NFC wristbands. And so, the Round-Up empties its rucksack of... [04 Jul 2008]
Photos: Top tech for the festival season
Photo O2 will allow selected guests to access luxury toilets by scanning contactless NFC wristbands on special readers. With the festival season kicking off with Glastonbury this weekend, silicon.com has... [26 Jun 2008]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News Visa has already launched a contactless payment system known as payWave which is available in some areas of London and enables customers to wave a credit or debit card in front of a reader to pay for low value goods... [28 Nov 2007]
TfL and Nokia to roll out 'Oyster phone' trial
News The same technology has recently been incorporated into some new banking cards so that they can be used in shops for contactless payment of small amounts. Visa even has a payWave credit card that features the capability... [26 Nov 2007]
March away from cheques continues apace
News The system uses NFC (near field communications), the same kind of contactless payment technology employed by TfL's Oyster card. Transport for London (TfL) has joined an increasingly long list of UK organisations no... [22 Jun 2007]
Barclays targets taxis with wave-and-pay tech
News After introducing Oyster card-style contactless payments functionality into its plastic, Barclays has been working on a contactless system for taxis. Barclays and Computer Cab have teamed up to develop a... [27 Apr 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: What's on my Christmas list
Comment Contactless payments. I have seen the future and it is contactless payments. I've been really good all this year and after giving it a lot of thought, I've decided I'd like some presents. Really good ones. [14 Dec 2006]
O2's i-mode to launch next month
News O2 is also very interested in the potential for bringing FeliCa - the contactless payment system based on i-mode - handsets to the UK. O2 has announced a 1 October launch date for its... [26 Sep 2005]
