Intel out to add NFC payment tech to Ultrabooks

Intel wants to build contactless payment tech into Ultrabooks. The chip giant today announced a partnership with MasterCard to work on bringing the credit card company's tap-to-pay PayPass system to PCs. The idea is clear: order something on the web then pay for it by tapping your PayPass-enabled credit card or NFC-equipped …

[Anonymous Coward]

Normally...

... people'd fsck around with external (cardbus/usb/what-have-you) readers, manufacturers would notice the demand, and, well, the thing gets built into the machine for convenience's sake. It seems they're instead trying to do a "build it and they will come"; this isn't the first try with that particular technology, and it does make me wonder. Who keeps pushing manufacturers to try something that generates very little demand in and of itself?

<hat type="tin foil">It's the stuff conspiracy theories are made of, I tells you, it is.</hat>

[Rustybucket]

Sounds foolproof...

What could possibly go wrong?

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