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BBC Pushing Mobile Phone 'Money' Again 29 May 2012 17:28 #1

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This is the current number one featured headline on the BBC website:

Bbcmobile

In some parts of the world, the mobile phone is beginning to replace cash and credit cards as a way of paying.

With the launch in the UK of new services from banks and mobile networks, using your phone to make payments is getting easier.

BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones loaded his mobile phone up with a number of payment apps and tried to live without cash for a few days.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18244015

Watch the item. Hey, wouldn't it be so much more convenient if we could just pay for everything via mobile phone?
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Re: BBC Pushing Mobile Phone 'Money' Again 29 May 2012 17:32 #2

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Has there been any more news about the olympics and NFC/wifi payments?

Eg. www.visa.co.uk/en/visa_golden_space/lond...ur_latest_tv_ad.aspx
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Re: BBC Pushing Mobile Phone 'Money' Again 30 May 2012 00:20 #3

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Interesting, WUB - thanks for posting! Incidentally, I was discussing this with my OH & parents the other day and we all thought it was a terrible idea, if only because it seems so shockingly insecure. Also - and forgive me if this makes me sound like a nutter, but I'm not a member of an "alternative" website for nothing, lol! - it almost seems to be one of the factors that are adding up to make me wonder if we are now really living in End Times...the Mark of the Beast, anyone? :O

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