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Contactless in Austin: The future is here

I spent the last 7 days using a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone equipped with NFC and the Isis mobile wallet to pay for a lot of things. Sponsored by Gemalto as part of their Contactless Challenge, I got pretty comfortable using the phone to pay for things like meals, … Read the rest

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Contactless in Austin: Whole foods challenge

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A video log about my experience with the Whole Foods challenge which is one of the individual events that makes up the Contactless Challenge put on by Gemalto. I had to get as many people to show up at Whole Foods and buy them $3 deserts while demonstrating the … Read the rest

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Contactless in Austin: day 2 video log

I’m almost liberated from my wallet. Seriously folks, wireless payments from your smartphone works. It just plain works and I’m almost ready to leave my wallet at home.

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Contactless in Austin: buying flowers for Stefi

I bought my flowers for Stefi using Contactless payment. It was my first purchase using my phone as a wireless payment device. The entire process was simple, I launched the ISIS mobile wallet app on my phone, entered my secure pin, held it over the point of sale terminal and … Read the rest

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Contactless in Austin: Adding money to my phone

The Gemalto Contactless Challenge starts tomorrow morning at 6am and if I plan to buy anything with my phone I better put some money in it. (On it?) One of the great things about this challenge is that Gemalto is giving us their money to spend. The funds arrived this … Read the rest

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Austin vs Salt Lake City in Gemalto Contactless Challenge

Josh Kerr wearing his game face

Game face on

Gemalto a multi-billion dollar company that you’ve likely never heard of is sponsoring a wireless payment challenge pitting me and my city of Austin vs Kathy and her city of Salt Lake City. Both Austin and SLC are piloting a new NFC payment technology from ISISRead the rest