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: http://analytica1st.com/analytica1st/2006/02/coca-cola-ntt-docomo-deployed-5000.html
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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:
http://analytica1st.com/analytica1st/2006/02/coca-cola-ntt-docomo-deployed-5000.html