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In France, we have a quite similar system as CASH, called Moneo. The problem is it's expensive, you pay a commission to add money on the chip AND shopkeepers pay another commission each time a customer buy something using his Moneo card. Dumb. On the other hand, Frenches are used to pay by checks. I hate these, I always forget to sign them. Grrr... :(
I think the whole point of CASH is that it hardly costs anything. I don't pay to charge my card or use it, and I don't think the vendors pay much to accept it (less than credit/debit, in any case).
Another service is printing your own postage stamps with your own personal images if you wish.
Here in the US, we have Google texting search, which is rather neat. I use it probably twice a week.
You can ask Google (46445) for all sorts of information, including weather, sports scores, or business address/phone lookups.
Shameless plug: I wrote about them here:
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128726/printable.html#
Ride Aircoach in Ireland after receiving a scannable image on your mobile phone. You have to use the web interface to buy the ticket unless you have a very robust web browser on your mobile phone.
The parking aide "little black box" you saw in Lisbon has a Swiss little white brother: Hisa Allpark (http://www.allpark.ch/) is a personal horodator. Launched in our dearest town Lausanne mid-February, you can now use it in 18 Swiss cities that have joined the system so far. Disclaimer: I have no whatsoever interest in the company, nor the system, since I'm a happy two-wheeler and parking is (still) free for us.
It's a great idea.. I would like to see it work.. I could see it even someday being tied into a satelite linked system...