At 7:51 AM -0700 on 7/13/99, NewsScan wrote: > SONY PLANS E-MONEY SERVICE > Sony Corp. is planning to test an Internet-based electronic money service, > beginning with a pilot program involving 200-300 families next summer. > Users will link to Sony's So-net Internet service, and then use noncontact > IC cards, similar to debit cards, to make purchases. The cards and card > readers will be provided to the families as part of the test. If all goes > well, the system will be commercialized in late 2000, according to the Nihon > Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei). (Reuters/TechWeb 13 Jul 99) > http://www.techweb.com/news/story/reuters/REU19990713S0001 ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
