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...BUSINESS CARDS "Wait for someone to ask for your card. Don't pass them out like you're passing out flyers on the corner in Times Square. If you really want to give somebody your card, ask permission: 'May I give you my card?'" By Andrea Sachs
Cashless consumers can now "blink" for strawberry Slurpees and feed the meter using their cell phones. Chase Bank U.S.A. has rolled out new credit cards with "blink": wave the card within 2 in. of a reader and a "beep" eliminates the need for a swipe, PIN or signature. Blink cuts purchase time 10% to 40% and increases spending about 20% over using cash, says Chase. There's a variable credit limit and, as with all other credit cards, minimal liability for lost or stolen plastic. One million MasterCard and Visa blink cards will be issued by summer...
...Randy Vanderhoof, the director of the New Jersey-based Smart Card Alliance, a not-for-profit that advocates the application of smart cards across the country, says that the technology used for the CharlieTicket system has been available for nearly 50 years...
They might not match the exotic connotations of the Octopus Card, used in Hong Kong, or the Oyster Card, used in London...
Kouskalis said he filed an insurance claim with Harvard. He also said that his stolen credit card and jewerly were found behind a washing machine in Leverett G Tower the night of the theft...