Tag: oyster
BMW key fob to double as your credit card
Okay, we’ve seen
Oyster cards on your mobile, car keys on your mobile, and barcode scanners on your mobile. BMW are taking the mobile out of the equation, however, and putting credit card functionality on your car keys. Experimental fob technology will allow you to pay for cheap items with just a swipe of your keys, like a Paywave card…
Oyster card hack released to the internet
Back in July, some researchers at the Radboud University in Holland discovered a way to hack the RFID chip used in a number of mass transit cards worldwide, including London’s Oyster card…
O2 Wallet – using your phone as your Oyster/Paywave/etc card
O2 have just completed a test of “near field communications”. It’s the technology used in Visa Paywave cards, Oyster cards, cards that let you into your block of flats, and all sorts of things. A similar sort of thing to the Barclaycard OnePulse card, but they want to put it into your phone so you don’t have to carry around a physical card. Good idea in theory. But what about in practice…?
Oyster card hacked – details being published in October. Free travel for all!
The Oyster system could go into meltdown this October, after a court ruling found it’s OK for details of its security failures to be made public.
NXP, the company behind the Oyster technology, had applied for an injunction against a group of Dutch technology experts, who worked out how to hack Oyster cards back in June. The judge has now overturned this injunction, so the Dutch hacking masters (Prof Bart Jacobs and his team…
Opinion: Oyster-enabled Nokia handsets are the right kind of mobile convergence
A confession: I don’t have an Oyster card, being a hick from the sticks who still has to buy physical tickets when travelling into London. So the idea of swiping your way through tube barriers rather than holding up dozens of commuters as you squash your malfunctioning piece of card into the slot already feels space-age to me.
Londoners to use Oyster-enabled Nokia handsets to pay for journeys
Londoners are already revelling in the new-found freedom their Barclaycards can offer, with its fast-cash payments and Oyster-power, but what about us fortunate unfortunate types who aren’t actually signed up with Barclays Bank?
Well, we’ve all got mobile phones, right? How about paying for train journeys using those? According to The…
Scoff 'til you drop: EAT and Krispy Kreme sign up to BarclayCard OnePulse
We already know that over 1,000 shops have signed up to offer BarclayCard OnePulse payment to their customers, but it's the middle of the afternoon and I'm a bit peckish, so this news story caught my eye as it names…
Barclaycard contactless credit card signs up 1,000 London shops
The Oyster travelcard system has been a big success in London (i.e. it’s not been a colossal cock-up like most public service technology projects), and now Barclays is extending the idea to paying for stuff other than tube journeys.
