{"id":436,"date":"2009-11-26T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2009-11-26T09:13:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T15:13:40","slug":"mastercard-canada-brings-paypass-to-blackberry-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard Canada brings Paypass to Blackberry Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MasterCard Canada with a partnership between Bank of Montreal and Research in Motion announced they are bringing the &#8220;tap and go&#8221; contact-less payment technology to Blackberry devices.  The initial trial will allow participants to purchase goods wherever PayPass is accepted. It appears as though the phones will have a self adhesive device attached to them to allow for this.  No word on when this will get past the initial trials and into everyone&#8217;s hands but it seems very cool.  I imagine that if you wanted to try this out yourself you could just tape your existing MasterCard that has PayPass to your phone and it would work.  It should work; however, there may be some interference between the phone and the card.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/November2009\/26\/c5009.html\">Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MasterCard Canada with a partnership between Bank of Montreal and Research in Motion announced they are bringing the &#8220;tap and go&#8221; contact-less payment technology to Blackberry devices. The initial trial will allow participants to purchase goods wherever PayPass is accepted. It appears as though the phones will have a self adhesive device attached to them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mastercard Canada brings Paypass to Blackberry Smartphones<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,29,27,28,30],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bank-of-montreal","tag-blackberry","tag-mastercard-canada","tag-paypass","tag-rim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}