In spite of the promise of mobile payments, plastic cards are not going away any time soon.
The percentage of Russians that paid for purchases with plastic cards increased from 27% in 2010 to 40% in 2011.
Use only professional-quality goods: Serious games are always played with plastic cards, which are not as easily marked or damaged as paper ones.
Until that time, one can either use the old currencies or conduct euro transactions electronically, or with checks or plastic cards.
The defendants then encoded the stolen data onto the magnetic stripes of blank plastic cards (like store gift cards, for example).
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It stores virtual versions of your existing plastic cards on your phone, along with your coupons, and eventually, loyalty and gift cards.
Placing barcodes on all plastic cards that are read by a barcode reader that is powered by some other means could possibly perform this service.
On Saturday, with the event in full swing, Chevy reps handed out plastic cards to attendees, who lined up to swipe them through an electronic device.
For in-store scenarios either at the register or in the aisle, MasterPass supports the use of NFC, QR codes, tags, mobile devices used at points of sale or traditional plastic cards.
When a power blackout or some other inevitable technical issue occurs, plastic cards can be imprinted mechanically with paper, or some other technology will be developed to record the transaction perfectly.
Katsuma Fujii, V-Sync's young chairman, disagrees, arguing that the extra weight will be trivial compared with the pesky small change and plastic cards that users will be able to leave at home.
MasterPass brings together all of the ways consumers pay for things, from traditional plastic cards to digital wallets, and gives them the ability to make a payment from wherever they are with one simple experience.
Google Wallet announced a string of features that allows mobile wallets to do things plastic credit cards cannot.
Leingruber first demoed the generator at a performance last March, where he actually printed plastic identity cards for visitors at a Berlin art gallery.
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The system has a number of advantages over plastic smart cards, too, such as being able to automatically recharge credit via the internet, says Mr Nomura.
This was, after all, why banks and merchants stopped issuing their own plastic payment cards about 50 years ago and went instead for the shared models of American Express, MasterCard, Visa, etc.
Some banks also are considering increasing their issuance of prepaid cards, a form of plastic similar to debit cards but excluded from fee limits in the new federal rules.
"SportsClix" can be played in fantasy games on a plastic board or swapped like cards, each figure having one of six degrees of rarity.
Debit cards work like plastic checks.
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"I have a plastic sleeve that holds 10 business cards, " she says, and she cuts oversize cards to make them fit.
It holds our plastic money (credit and debit cards and coupons), our cash, sometimes a few coins, business cards, important phone numbers and our personal ID cards.
Square launched in 2009 as a way for people to take credit-card payments by swiping cards in a small plastic reader that plugs into the headphone jack of a cell phone.
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Poisson wants to take on those plastic presents of last resort: gift cards.
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Mr Cockburn said that some items which seem like ideal candidates for recycling, like wrapping paper or cards backed with foil or plastic, simply will not be accepted.
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Teaching them that there has to be more money coming in than going out is critical, as is defeating the illusion that credit cards are magic pieces of plastic that allow you to get things for free.
When I think of paying with plastic, I think of credit or debit cards.
The cards are targeted to clients of plastic surgeons, dentists and even veterinarians.
Screenshots in the app supposedly show a mail-in option for plastic that could completely replace credit and debit cards without turning to NFC.
In Singapore, clients of the country's three largest banks use smart cards, while commuters pass the plastic through electronic readers to get on buses or commuter trains.
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