Cameron Laird's personal notes on "The Payoff" weekly column of business news

"The Payoff" is a weekly column I write for the ec-bp.org Web site on the subject of payment systems:

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• "Payment Systems and Security: What You Need To Do Today"
• "Surprising Win by Apple's Passbook - E-payment is a Go"
• "Explosive Innovation"
• "Innovation in payment systems"
• "Predicting payment winners: deep complexity"
• "Google Wallet: High Risk, High Reward"
• "JCPenney 'all-in': RFID, M-POS, Self-Checkout, More"
• "Innovation at check-out"
• "Qthru Aims for a Different Self Check-Out"
• "Modest Ambitions"
• "Amazon Grows Up, Pays Use Tax"
• "Consumers Crave Convenience"
• "Powerful Players Persist in Promotion of Payment Projects"
• "What supply-chain decision-makers ought to know about HTML5"
• "M-payments will change sales in your stores"
• "Cash and Checks on Way Out"
• "Mastercard Aggressive about Cashless"
• "Controlling Currency Risk"
• "Payment automation and unintended consequences"
• "Minors and M-Commerce: Court ruling will affect us all"
• "Currency Exchange: Pay Across Borders"
• "PayPal Gets Physical"

Most of the thousand-plus articles I've published in recent years have focused on software-and-systems.