John and Doves,As you know, the 666 mark of the beast technology moves very slowly. The art of Gradualism makes this nightmarish, air-tight, suffocating and totally enclosed economic system more acceptable when it finally arrives.
( did I use enough adjectives ? )
The summer of 2005 will see payment technology advance in three major areas:
1. over contactless cell phones
( with a FeliCa contactless chip embedded in them made by SONY )2. using a cell phone message to transmit funds by Internet telecommunication system
3. using contactless cards ( starting in Atlanta, Georgia)
Below are articles that highlight these presentations. The key word I find is "integration".
When they finally apply that you-know-which chip that will transmit funds electronically in any mode, then we will see that chip implanted in the right hand or forehead, for security.
A " handy " wallet, indeed.This is all coming to pass just as the Bible predicted, thousands of years ago.
Can anyone question the authority of the Bible ?
It is tomorrow's newspaper written many yesterdays ago.Maranatha,
Jim GoodrickCellphone wallets -- June 20, 2005
Japan -- DoCoMo Contactless payment phones
NEW YORK - Already a device of multiple disguises, from camera to music player and mini-TV, the cell phone's next trick may be the disappearing wallet. After all, since more than a quarter of the people on the planet already carry around cell phones, and hundreds of millions are joining them every year, why should they bring along credit and debit cards when a mobile device can make payments just as well?
At the simplest level, all that's needed is to embed phones with a short-range radio chip to beam credit card information to a terminal at a store register. It's not unlike the wireless system used to pay tolls on many highways or the SpeedPass keychain wand used to buy gas at Exxon Mobile Corp. pumps.
This is already a reality in Japan, where NTT
DoCoMo Inc. says 3 million cell phone subscribers use its Mobile Wallet service to buy things at 20,000 stores and vending machines.....
The phone would supplant not only credit and debit cards, but wallets, checkbooks, Web sites, computer programs like Quicken, and online bill payment services such as PayPal or CheckFree....One Wallet : Arab, India, Japan ...... Cellphone to Internet transaction
A small technology company named C-Sam Inc. recently succeeded in launching its OneWallet cell phone platform with corporations in the United Arab Emirates, India and Japan......
Now, using OneWallet on his phone, he enters his PIN number, designates which account the funds should come from, the recipient, and whether it should go to a bank account or a Western Union-type outlet in India. The order is transmitted over the cell phone's Internet connection in seconds.........
But C-Sam founder Sam Pitroda, a rags-to-riches telecommunications entrepreneur from India, sees the mobile wallet as a means to empower the masses in emerging markets and as a prospective boon for financial institutions, wireless companies and retailers.Integrated System
But Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. are developing mobile handsets that integrate the payment chip with the rest of the phone, opening the way for more innovative applicationsVisa, MC Contactless cards : North America
The PayPass system aims to improve even on that step. A credit card number is embedded in a chip that is activated by waving it in front of a reader, ringing up a sale quicker than handing plastic to a merchant or swiping it.
That technology is already gathering momentum without being installed in phones: In May, JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced plans for a mass-market rollout of MasterCard and Visa cards with a radio chip, starting this summer in Atlanta with nearly 1 million of the cards going out to consumers. Likewise, major merchants led by McDonald's Corp. and 7-Eleven Inc. are already installing radio terminals over which customers can flash these new-age plastic cards......
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050618/ap_on_hi_te/wireless_wallet&printer=1;_ylt=
Ainjmqp3u8u8rlrCY_RGv8Zk24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA
3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050618/ap_on_hi_te/wireless_wallet
FeliCa Mobile Wallet -- June 20, 2005
Using a contactless technology, paying for our groceries will be as simple as swiping our cell phones over the barcodes of the items that we want to buy -- their prices being automatically deducted from our online account
http://www.thejakartapost.com/misc/PrinterFriendly.asphttp://www.thejakartapost.com/detailbusiness.asp?fileid=20050620.P03&irec=2
MasterCard International ... Europe --June 20, 2005
Similar services may be on the way in the United States and Europe. MasterCard International Inc. has been testing phone-based versions of its PayPass contactless payment technology since 2003, and may conduct a significant market trial next year.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164901076* * *
"And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,
or the name of the beast or the number of his name.Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast;
for it is the number of a man, and his number is Six hundred threescore
and six . " ( 666 ) -- Revelation 13: 16-18_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
My understanding is that the title given to this world policy maker will have the gematria of his name / title equaling 666.