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Re: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

Vision — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:58:17 -0000

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...

Re: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

Anne Dominique — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:43:36 -0000

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.

Re: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

topgold — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:46:52 -0000

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.

Re: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

Cyrus Farivar — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:55:14 -0000

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.

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Re: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

justgraham — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:55:55 -0000

Another service is printing your own postage stamps with your own personal images if you wish.

Re: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

Stephanie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:42:04 -0000

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).

Re: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

raj — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:16:06 -0000

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... :(