Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Money available as an electronic account, used in Internet commerce.
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- noun
money that isheld ,exchanged andrepresented inelectronic form, and is used fortransactions over theInternet
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Some see a winner-take-all economy of massive new monopolies emerging on the back of network effects, others see the growth of a new economy in which intermediaries are replaced by huge open networks of buyers and sellers trading with e-cash on anonymous electronic exchanges – and evading their taxes.
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And there have been several stabs at offering friends the ability to settle-up with one another with real cash or e-cash (of which PayPal is the most successful), but those are formal and pretty heavy-weight.
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Yesterday, Japan Railways East (JR East) announced that they are planning to launch a mobile based loyalty point scheme next June to compliment their mobile RFID electronic ticketing and e-cash system, Suica.
Archive 2006-11-01 Jan Kuczynski 2006
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Yesterday, Japan Railways East (JR East) announced that they are planning to launch a mobile based loyalty point scheme next June to compliment their mobile RFID electronic ticketing and e-cash system, Suica.
Japan Railways announce plans for mobile loyalty point scheme Jan Kuczynski 2006
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Alternatively, retailers can establish their own independent loyalty point scheme for their customers who pay using Suica e-cash.
Japan Railways announce plans for mobile loyalty point scheme Jan Kuczynski 2006
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Alternatively, retailers can establish their own independent loyalty point scheme for their customers who pay using Suica e-cash.
Archive 2006-11-01 Jan Kuczynski 2006
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M. O'BRIEN: In Japan, nearly 50 million people use e-cash every day.
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SUICA is a “multi-application wireless smart card” and contains many secure applications, a non-secure (password protected, simple security) area for simple point cards and other low security applications, and therefore can be used for many different applications concurrently, not just e-cash, or railtickets.
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With 8 million SUICA cards, SUICA is probably the largest installed e-cash system in the world.
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Good Wired News piece on e-cash, but Declan needs a better fact checker.
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