Our local ticket store in Lincoln, where I grew up, laid on two coaches that day; I went with my best friend, my brother and his mates.
This new app keeps all of your electronic tickets/barcodes in one place: airplane boarding passes, movie tickets, store cards and so on.
In its current form, it's a guide to upcoming concerts in London – more cities will be added in the coming months – which also sells tickets for those gigs without booking fees, with the tickets stored within the app ready to be scanned on the door.
Apple's pseudo mobile wallet Passbook, which previously offered a way for users to store their tickets, store cards, and coupons now has another new feature that makes it more utilitarian: a QR code scanner.
"The black American Express card, Johnny Walker Black: These were all the images we were trying to get in our mind," he said By early fall, when the lottery began mailing 10.1 million tickets to stores, expectations were low.
Of course, the Target Ticket app store description already indicates that the service is opening to REDcard holders.
The NFC Forum aims to develop systems that could let customers hold up a phone to a billboard or kiosk advertising an event, buy a ticket and store it on their phone until they reach the venue.
It's not surprising to see minimal usage of the various smartphone technologies at fast-service or low-ticket item stores like convenience stores, dollar stores and office supplies stores, but it's somewhat interesting to see moderate use at mass merchandisers (Walmart, Costo, etc).
Over the past few weeks, Metro-North Railroad has started arming its conductors with hand-held devices that print tickets and store fare data and that ultimately will accept credit cards.
It will allow any resident with a library card to have an e-mail account; transact business with the city, like payment of parking tickets; and store homework or other documents on a central server so they can be easily retrieved from any site on the network.
