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Contactless payment trial goes live on San Francisco's BART {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 31st 2008 5:41PM None of the Jack or BART transactions are on the cell phone bill. The phone has a Jack prepaid card and BART EZ-Rider card securely stored in a smart card chip in the phone. Charges are reflected on those accounts, not your Sprint bill.
Contactless payment trial goes live on San Francisco's BART {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 31st 2008 2:09PM I've seen the phone up close. It looks like a Samsung a920 and has a dedicated button on the keypad to launch the wallet software.
New Line confirms it'll follow in Warner's Blu footsteps {Engadget HD}
Jan 7th 2008 12:44PM For the first time since the introduction of the format, DVD sales are down. The studios need to resell their libraries (again!) and high definition DVDs is their revenue bridge until downloading becomes mainstream. Consolidating on one format simplifies the retail message and removes consumers' hesitation to re-buy their favorite titles.
For the electronics manufacturers, one format assures higher volume sales per model (vs. splitting between two units supporting separate formats) giving them the marketing courage to push new units. We could easily see 15 different Blu-Ray players by Holiday 2008 that have to compete on price and features. In the end, choice is not about format but how many boxes to choose from on the retailer shelf.
AT&T now offering Motorola RAZR 2 V9 {Engadget Mobile}
Sep 1st 2007 2:10PM Up and ready to purchase online:
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/?device=Motorola+MOTORAZR2+V9&q_sku=sku1030011
Slippery Rock University intros RFID payment system for mobiles {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 11th 2007 1:26PM If these college kids are sticky an RFID tag to their phones, it is an example of a closed-loop contactless payment scheme, not Near Field Communication (NFC) which involves the integration of RFID into the phone's guts.
Dell XPS m1330 performance ultraportable revealed {Engadget}
Jun 20th 2007 4:16PM I'm a Dell X1 ultra portable user and have been without an optical drive for my last two laptops (IBM X40). For a pure road warrior, ditching an optical drive is weight happily surrendered.
The Dell X1's biggest problem is their slightly cramped keyboard key size. Hopefully, this slightly wider unit will move back to a standard key size.
