Monday, January 24, 2011

McDonald's to start accepting contactless Visa payments in all UK restaurants by this summer

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The UK already has a big old investment in contactless technology with
London's rather successful Oystercard travel scheme, but now the whole
Kingdom can get a taste for airborne payments thanks to a new
initiative from McDonald's and Visa. The two giants of commerce are
uniting to bring NFC tech to all of the former's 1,200 fast food
restaurants within the UK, allowing hungry Brits to pay for meals
costing up to £15 by simply waving their credit card in front of
the till Obi-wan-style. Of course, the real excitement of such large-
scale NFC proliferation is in the potential to use those automated
tills with your Nexus S (which has an NFC chip built right in) and
other devices coming up this year that look set to feature the
technology. So yeah, Visa had better be working hard on putting
together some mobile apps.

[Thanks, Steve]

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