Comments on: CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

By: Vision

Vision — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:58:17 +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…

By: Vision

Vision — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:58:17 +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…

By: Anne Dominique

Anne Dominique — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:43:36 +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.

By: Anne Dominique

Anne Dominique — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:43:36 +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.

By: Bernard Goldbach

Bernard Goldbach — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:46:52 +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.

By: Bernard Goldbach

Bernard Goldbach — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:46:52 +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.

By: Cyrus Farivar

Cyrus Farivar — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:55:14 +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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http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128726/printable.html#

By: justgraham

justgraham — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:55:55 +0000

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

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:42:04 +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).

By: Cybertooth

Cybertooth — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:16:06 +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…

By: Cyrus Farivar

Cyrus Farivar — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:55:14 +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.

Shameless plug: I wrote about them here:

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128726/printable.html#

By: justgraham

justgraham — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:55:55 +0000

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

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:42:04 +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).

By: Cybertooth

Cybertooth — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:16:06 +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…

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