Fandango mobile payments follow-up

My speculation was wrong. This is not a downloadable application. Their solution is the Fandango website remade for a mobile phone browser. Purchasing requires typing a login name and password, as you would do on the "regular" website. You can check it out at http://mobile.fandango.com/ .

Finger payments

I do not know how comfortable Americans are with the idea of giving a company their fingerprints, but it is an interesting idea and perhaps the ultimate mobile payment solution.

MercuryNews.com | 10/04/2005 | Start-up getting financing for fingerprint technology: "A San Francisco start-up, Pay By Touch Solutions, is expected to announce today $130 million in fresh financing for a novel way of paying for groceries and other goods and services: a machine that reads your fingerprint."