According to a media report, Banking on the technology’s in-country popularity, Japan will now start an aggressive push to market its mobile technology, especially the popular “wallet phone”, in other countries. Among the wireless innovations Japan hopes to sell is the wallet phone, which relies on a tiny computer chip called FeliCa, the report stated. The chip is embedded in each cell phone, communicates with a reader-device at stores, train stations and vending machines for cashless payments. Sony Corp. developed Felica. While the technology is more common in smart cards, popular in Singapore and parts of Europe, Japan hopes to market it overseas for cell phones, report said.

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