payment

Photos: The high-tech future of retail

Photo The Barclaycard Business stand featured this standalone payment kiosk. The kiosk in itself isn't a new innovation, but it does feature a Wave & Pay point for near field communication payment cards. The latest innovations in tech for retailers were...

Tags: retail, contactless payments, tablet, payment

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[15 Feb 2008]

Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet

Photo The custom built contactless payment terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC (near field communication) and RFID technology could soon allow phones to pay for goods and services, act as travel or gig tickets and transfer money between bank accounts.

Tags: nfc, mobile phone, rfid, bank

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[31 Jan 2008]

Photos: Germany's road charging tech

Photo If a driver is stopped, after checks show no payment has been made, they can be made to cough up while out on the road. Here a highways officer issues a payment in a lay-by. BAG (or Bundesamt für Güterverkehr in German) is the Federal Office for...

Tags: electronic road charging system, autobahn, road tech

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[02 Feb 2007]