Mobile money (or simply m-Money as it is commonly referred to) is getting lot of attention lately. Businessline today published an article on mobile money. As the article mentioned, Japan already has three providers successfully executing this concept.
There are two different ideas that people are talking about:
Link the phone with some credit card account and [...]
A new website has come out of stealth mode: mginger.com. It offers a feature that many have been thinking about.. get paid for the advertisements on your cellphone. The website mentions the following points -
Earn money for reading ads on your mobile
Get SMS ads of only those products that you want to buy
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After making waves in USA, I always thought a service like Twitter will be hugely popular in India. To the uninitiated, twitter is a service where you can register and create your channel. Now you can send a messge from your cell phone or IM or web to that channel. Your friends can subscribe to [...]
Lots of companies, VCs and investors are betting big on mobile phone web users. With the increasing smart phones and iPhones, the bet is getting bigger and bigger. I have my own apprehensions around it. How many people really surf web over their blackberries, N73s or jazzy samsung smart phones? I do not know many [...]
Symantec and McAfee are working hard to beef up their mobile solutions.
McAfee announced solutions to screen mobile content. The news mentions:
“The service, called McAfee OK, works at the provider level and inspects all mobile content such as ring tones, images, video, and even applications that may be uploaded by subscribers onto the network.”
Similarly, [...]
Nokia filed a new patent about semantic visual search engine. Om Malik reported this on GigaOM.
Nokia is already experimenting with mobile ads and it is interesting to see Google and Nokia competing in mobile space.
Talking about mobile ads, according to this article :
“A surprising 35 percent of adult cell phone users [...]
Scobleizer has a very interesting post. It claims Apple is collaborating with Amazon,Google for a new device-iReader
The idea sounds quite romantic. The convenience of reading books, blogs and other articles from a mobile device is indeed fascinating. If the Scobleizer tip is right, it will give some serious competition to other mobile readers.
For me, [...]
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