Wave Your Visa Card to Make a Payment… If You Are in Malaysia

Wouldn’t it be cool to wave your Visa credit card in some procedurally appropriate way to make a payment? It is possible using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology which is a short-range (about 4 centimeters) wireless data transfer technology. According to this PC World article…

Visa Makes NFC Payment Commercially Available

…this is actually available… if you are in Malaysia and have a Nokia 6212 phone.

Do you ever get the feeling that U.S. consumers are falling further and further behind the rest of the world in technology?

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