London’s adopting the world of wireless in a big way this year. In order to gear up for the Olympic games, contactless payments have spread across the capital, enabling anyone with an NFC phone or wireless-enabled bankcard to buy their lunch with a mere swipe. But, despite rumblings to the contrary, it seems as though the same’s not going to come true for tube travel any time soon. Read more
Festivals are odd, near-utopian places. Everyone stumbles around drunkenly eating hog roast baguettes and throwing rubbish on the floor like tomorrow will never come, the only reminder that you do in fact belong to a civilised society being the occasional exchange of cash. Not any more: Barclaycard is removing the need for cash at Wireless. Read more
Newsflash: the world is moving towards a time when NFC and contactless payments are the norm. What’s more, Barclaycard claims that “more than half of contactless transactions by 2016 will be made using a mobile phone.” But where does that leave us in the here and now? Only a handful of phones in the UK have NFC tech built in, but the Olympics are coming up and queues in London are going to be horrific.
What are we to do? Fret no more: Barclaycard has the most bizarre solution ever: PayTag. Read more
