So it looks as if Vodaphone is going to let you use your telephone
as a credit card of sorts:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/23641.html
But I wonder, what's the point? It's not as if my wallet is going
to be significantly lightened by leaving a credit card at home.
Let's face it; a piece of plastic is pretty darn "mobile."
For physical goods, at least, it looks as if the only change is
that Vodaphone is inserted into the consumer -> credit card issuer
-> merchant money-stream. Which is good for them, if they get a
little piece of what goes by, but not good for the others, because
that money has to come from one of those three parties.
cjs
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Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC
Received on Sun Jan 13 08:19:52 2002