Archive for June, 2009
Mobile Credit Cards?
The concept has been in use in the land of the ever technologically advanced Japan where people have been using their cellular phones to pay for everything from a can of soda, a bowl of noodles or a ticket to ride the trains as you go to and from work. Now, the concept is taking aim on a bit larger market, the micro-pay system called Boku. The system works by having you pay with your cell phone rather that having to pull out your wallet, look for your card, present it, it gets swiped and you sign the receipt for your transaction. Besides, we always seem to have our mobiles in hand, ready for the next call or sms, and it makes sense. Read the rest of this entry »