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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, I probaly won't discover America by saying that Japanese had cellphone-friendly Coca-Cola vending machines back in 2002. While the first generation of machines used bar-code scanners to conduct transaction, the second gen. machines are using NFC stahdard-based FeliCa technology. See details:<br><a href="http://analytica1st.com/analytica1st/2006/02/coca-cola-ntt-docomo-deployed-5000.html" rel="nofollow">http://analytica1st.com/analytica1st/2006/02/coca-cola-ntt-docomo-deployed-5000.html</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[yaromir]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 15th 2006 2:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</guid><description><![CDATA[even before 02, the first RFID cellular was in japan, nothing new about this.. infact the title should be,<br><br>'Finaly, North Americans get a decent Technology'<br><br>lol.. great stuff though.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[prophet]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 15th 2006 3:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</guid><description><![CDATA[Finland (Sonera) was playing with the concept in 1997.  We had one of their machines shipped to a U.S. event in 1998.  <br><br>Granted the technology is old.  The reason the U.S. is so far behind is that there is no consumer demand.  Sure, if your reading this, your a geek and would love and adopt the concept.  The problem is most other people haven't seen the connection between cell phones, their bank account, and pop machines.<br><br>Let's see if Cingular's latest announcement (wireless banking) changes this.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Jenkins]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 15th 2006 4:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</guid><description><![CDATA[Come'on, in Chile we had this service launched back in 2002. You send a message with your cellphone (the vendor ID, the softdrink ID) and a few seconds later, the machine outputs your can :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sergio Goldenberg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 15th 2006 4:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</guid><description><![CDATA[I tried to use one of this in Singapore in 2002 and it wasn't a happy experience. I sent 3 messages and got no Coke.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[blueacewe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 16th 2006 8:44AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</guid><description><![CDATA[In Finland you call the machine. A woman answers and says something like "This service will cost 1,40 EUR. Thank you for calling." Not so much of a thrill.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MK]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 17th 2006 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</guid><description><![CDATA[Simplewire was doing this at CTIA last year, brought in a vending machine and had it hooked up to a short code. Thing is, the app broke and when they rebooted, 30 cokes came spitting out of the vending machine.<br><br>Blah.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Automatica]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 17th 2006 12:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Mobile phones make payments at Coca-Cola machines]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/11/15/mobile-phones-make-payments-at-coca-cola-machines/</guid><description><![CDATA[In Chile, it also worked via short codes (something like *[machine id]*[soda id]#). You could buy subway tickets as well from other vending machines. IIRC both systems were canceled a couple of years ago.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nestor C.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 17th 2006 3:06PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>