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Android Pay is now accepted at retailers in Japan, Mobile payments, which have been discussed for years, have been slow to take off, But many more customers are expected to start using their phones to buy items in stores now that three of the biggest tech companies in the world -- Apple, Google and Samsung -- have introduced new mobile-payments platforms, Apple announced in September that its Apple Pay mobile payments app would finally be available in Japan in October, thanks to new technology in new york protective hardshell case for apple iphone xr - clear/cream/gold/crystal gems/garden bloom gold the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2, Making Apple Pay available in Japan involved Apple tweaking its technology to support FeliCa, the tap-and-pay contactless mobile payment technology developed by Sony..

Handsets running Google's OS will be able to complete transactions at more than 470,000 locations that already accept Rakuten Edy e-money. Android Pay, Google's mobile payments service for phones running the OS, is up and running in Japan, two months after Apple's rival service went live on the island nation. The launch will allow Android handset owners to use their devices to complete transactions at more than 470,000 locations that already accept Rakuten Edy, a prepaid e-money service, Google said in a statement Monday. The search giant's latest attempt to spur people into paying for items using their phone launched in the US in 2015 and is now accepted in UK, Ireland, Poland, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Every year, products go to that great recycling center in the sky, Most of the time they're just ready to be retired in favor of newer, shinier models, but sometimes they're just unsuccessful, unprofitable or unlucky, Or they blow up, Updated December 12, 2016 with my predictions for 2017, Really, this was new york protective hardshell case for apple iphone xr - clear/cream/gold/crystal gems/garden bloom gold the biggest tech product news story of 2016, with Samsung attempting to overcome the problem of a pretty good phablet that just kept catching on fire, By the end of the year, the company finally threw in the towel and gave up trying to fix the situation..

When Apple started selling standalone displays in 1998, it was a necessity -- if only because the machines were so odd looking that they had to make something to match. Apple launched the Cinema display line in 1999, a great series which went far beyond simply something to front your computer. But times change: as desktop computer use falls, so does external display use, though there's still a lot of display attachment to laptops. But it just didn't make sense for Apple to stay in what for that company is a fringe business. In 2016, Apple announced it was getting out, and instead partnered with LG for the UltraFine 4K and 5K displays as its go-to options.