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Most readers probably have cell phones with the ability to store electronic money, travel passes and the like. However, we’ll bet few use the other function the RFID chip allows: the ability to store shopping loyalty points.
That’s sure to change later this year if a trial being conducted by NTT Communications bears fruit. NTT’s Gyazapo software can hold point cards from up to 100 shops on a standard phone in just one Java application. Gyazapo beats existing applications on numbers alone, as the others are all store-specific, meaning a phone can hold only two or three. Packing the equivalent of dozens of plastic cards into a single button-press, therefore, is clearly going to appeal to a lot of thrift-conscious shoppers with bulging wallets. (Metropolis)
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cwhite
unless of course you want to control the flow of personal information
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electric2004
And somebody will find a way to hack this Java application. For example to send some of customers points to a special place, where they are collected, for this somebody's purpose.
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