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You’ll be able to make contactless payments up to £30 from September
Contactless card payments are a bit of a mixed bag. The lack of PIN security is enough to make some people wary of it, but holding your card on a sensor is ever so slightly easier than sticking your card into the reader. If you are a fan, the £20 upper limit is a bit of…
A quarter of a million people have used EE’s Channel Tunnel 4G
You can get internet in an awful lot of places these days, but few are quite so bizarre as enjoying perfect 4G signal 75 metres under the English Channel. EE customers have been able to do that for two months now, and from the looks of things they're loving the opportunity. Since the 14th of September, 250,000 customers have…
Insight – How intelligent lighting is set to change your home
Chris Price looks at some of the latest developments which are about to revolutionise your home’s lighting, including smart bulbs which can be controlled via your mobile phone and systems that can be integrated effectively with your home’s security - even provide multi-room audio! Our homes have been utterly transformed over the last 100 years.…
TfL took one million contactless payments in nine days
Last week TfL started taking contactless payments on its entire transport network, adding the tube, Overground and DLR to the existing system that exists on London's bus service. Today the company revealed that one million contactless payments have been accepted. It's worth pointing out that the majority of those payments, 785,000 to be precise, were…
Contactless tube payment won’t mean the end of the Oyster Card
Last week gave Londoners a chance to pay for their rail-borne transport with something other than an Oyster Card, they could use a contactless credit/debit card or (if they are EE customers using Android) they could use a smartphone. You might think, what does this mean for the Oyster Card? Will it eventually be discontinued?…
Barclaycard has unveiled the bPay wristband for contactless payments
Barclaycard has announced a new wearable device that allows people to make mobile payments with their wrist. The bPay is an NFC enabled wristband for making contactless payments up to £20 in some shops and on public transport. bPay bands are expected to be offered to all Barclaycard customers in the future, and can be…
EE customers can now use their phones to pay for London travel (unless they use an iPhone)
Last month, we told you that EE customers would be able to start using their phones to pay for travel on the London Underground, tram, DLR, Overground and National Rail services, and today is the day that dream becomes a reality (if you’re an Android user). EE customers have already been able to make mobile…
Cash on Tap: Will you start paying with your EE phone to travel around London and leave your Oyster card at home?
From today EE customers living in London can use their phones to pay for bus travel - just tap your handset onto the Oyster card reader and away you whizz! (Assuming you're not stuck in a traffic jam after 30 seconds of movement, which most London buses are.) According to The Next Web, any EE…
New pictures of Apple’s Spaceship HQ
With what looks like a giant muddy crop circle we bring you new images of Apple's long awaited Spaceship HQ. This image was taken by KCBS news and traffic reporter Ron Cervi and reported by Macrumors. Apparently, Cervi himself has been monitoring the works on the campus for the last few months and has taken several aerial…
This (fake) Coelux window recreates sunlight from different places around the globe
There's been a lot of press in recent months about the smart light bulbs we can now use to fill our homes with everything from warm, ambient lighting to vivid flashing colours all with a touch of a button (or a swipe of our phones). But we love this slightly different twist from window manufacturer…
