Article View: aus.comms.mobile
Article #579Re: Buy coffee with your mobile
From: John Henderson
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:54
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:54
18 lines
1570 bytes
1570 bytes
Aussie Bob wrote: > What does everytone think of this idea? Using your mobile to pay for coffee > at Starbucks (yecch!) > > http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/starbucks-stop-here-forget-cash-use-your-phone-to-pay-20110120-19x9r.html > > "US coffee chain Starbucks has started allowing customers in its US stores > to keep their cash and credit cards in their wallets and pay for their > drinks with mobile phones." > > But I don't see how it would work if you're on a cap plan. Say I've got a > $400 cap, does that mean I can get $400 worth of coffee each month instead? Here's a BBC article on Near Field Communication (NFC) payment systems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12287009 John
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<8qcc44F7baU1@mid.individual.net>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mailReferences:
<4d37971c$0$3035$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: b496a247cd,d15c6b51a71b5ebe X-Google-Attributes: gidb496a247cd,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John Henderson <jhenRemoveThis@talk21.com> Newsgroups: aus.comms.mobile,aus.tv,aus.comms Subject: Re: Buy coffee with your mobile Date: 27 Jan 2011 04:54:29 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: <8qcc44F7baU1@mid.individual.net> References: <4d37971c$0$3035$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 2jsZpB1VdxO6B5FhWx5zqg+G85B3a1TaOylZosfOkVsaKHxmE= Cancel-Lock: sha1:tRrcggbdP64EEdpnlfAIF2FCeMk= User-Agent: XPN/1.2.6 (Street Spirit ; Linux)