Comments on: Palm, VeriFone Working On IR Financial Tranactions

Palm Inc. and Hewlett-Packard's VeriFone division have agreed to work together to create infrared payment technology for handhelds. In the short term, they will work together to permit the secure transfer of financial and payment info from a Palm to a VeriFone point of sale (POS) payment terminal using IR, and then onto existing financial institutions' payment networks. Long term, they want Palm handhelds to access third party content through VeriFone payment terminals.

 A Godsend

I.M. Anonymous @ 11/7/2000 8:01:56 AM #

I'd love to see this happen. I have a hell of a time keeping up with purchases becuse I'm constantly on the run and have no time to stop and record check numbers. I have to stop every couple of weeks and clean out all the charge slips from my wallet; by then, I've forgotten what I bought.

If this will interface with Quicken, I'd be one happy camper!