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  „Sci/TechDial C for coffeeLet your fingers do the payingBy BBC News Online's Damian Carrington A pilot scheme in Oslo, Norway is allowing people to buy drinks from vending machines using only their mobile telephones. The scheme marks another step in the journey towards a cashless society, in which a lack of loose change will no longer stop you from using vending machines, parking meters, public transport and public toilets. The three-month pilot has been set up by mobile network operator NetCom with electronics company Siemens.“

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