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I am not a patient person, I admit this. I recently acquired a FastLane transponder for my motorcycle because having to wait behind a caravan of drivers fumbling in their collective glove boxes for quarters at toll booths drives me loopy. Airport security is excruciating--not for the degrading nature of divulging the contents of your life to the masses, but for the rookie travelers that choke up the system.

Two years after Isis was announced and after multiple setbacks, the operator mobile payments initiative has finally launched. Isis has been the subject of much criticism as a result of numerous delays, adherence to NFC--despite considerably momentum towards other, more available technologies--and its U-turn from an original strategy of taking on the card companies directly.