Oh RIVINGTON, I hardly knew ye.

NFC interactions depicted in the style of "The Way Things Go." This is so insanely lovely and on point. Jackpot link.

Via Timo. The (sorry) money graf: "I see no advantage to the involvement of an operator in the value chain at all - apart from specifying NFC chips in future handsets. I don't buy the idea that Londoners would want out travel expenses appearing on the same bill as postpaid phone usage, and prepay users would almost certainly prefer two different "buckets" for transport and communications for ease of budgeting."

Ahem. (Via Timo.)

Great thinking here.

More maximum tastiness from Timo.

Yes.

"Now, with 80 percent of passengers using these self-service options, the next step is [turning]...hand-held devices and mobile phones of travelers into their boarding passes."

Via Timo. Wow.

Dumbed-down reporting here, but it gets at the essentials.

In which NYC begins to catch up with the rest of the world, with the "assistance" of Cingular, MasterCard and Citibank. Via Timo.