Amazon launched the Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS) today, providing developers, merchants and distributors of mobile applications an easy way to process payments from mobile devices and extend Amazon’s 1-Click checkout experience to their customers. Amazon MPS enables tens of millions of Amazon customers to use the existing payment and shipping information in their [...]
I heard from a friend recently about the SMS parking services in Belgium and Holland. She told me she’d seen a couple of signs and tried to use it, but couldn’t go through with it successfully, because she was on a roaming network and the SMS she sent never got through.
I just remembered it today, [...]
Pregnant cows informing the farmer by SMS when they’re about to give birth – how sweet!
The device that can make this happen, was introduced at a farmers convention in the French Rennes. A week before the scheduled birth, a thermometer should be inserted into the cow’s vagina. This thermometer is attached through sensors to a [...]
I’m particularly excited about today’s post, because it is from Greece — my home country — and I don’t get many mobile marketing stories from there.
I just found out that the election results from this weekend’s national elections will also be sent via SMS from the voting stations back to HQ (Ministry of Internal Affairs).
This [...]
Nokia has announced a new mobile payment service, under the name Nokia Money.
The service is targeted mainly at countries with a limited bank infrastructure. Argumenting that there are 4 billion mobile phones worldwide, compared to only 1,6 billion bank accounts, Nokia considers the mobile phone as the perfect device to facilitate a payment or a money [...]
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