I’m a huge, huge fan of OpenTable, the restaurant booking service because, fundamentally, it gives me control and clarity. I know that if I book at table — it’s booked. I don’t have to speak to anybody. I just click a few buttons. I love it. Compare this with the standard way of booking a [...]
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The Chip and PIN nightmare, Redux
Thank you to the team over at the GSMA’s Mobile Money Exchange who re-published my Save Me From The Chip & PIN Nightmare post on their frontpage today in the opinion section. If you’re into mobile payments, definitely check out Mobile Money Exchange – they’ve got some very useful stories on the site (like the [...]
OpenTable’s mobile app generate $150m for restaurants; seats over 3 million diners
Analog restaurant booking has always been a hellish experience for me. I really can’t stand arsing around having to spell out my name or my telephone number. I also really object to calling at 11am to book a table only to realise that the restaurant ‘isn’t open yet’. Ridiculous. Which is why when OpenTable came [...]
ImpulsePay mobile payments now available for 18+ verified UK consumers
Attention all adult, games, betting and music content providers: ImpulsePay has gone live with an 18+ service that uses the mobile operator age verification facilities to deliver proof of age prior to allowing consumers to purchase content. Nifty. Here’s how it works: – The content owner inserts an ImpulsePay ‘Buy Now’ – After clicking on [...]
BuzzCity’s mobile money research: 90% have purchased via mobile
Mobile media company, published a report on mobile money recently, based on research they did across their rather sizeable worldwide audience. In case you’re wondering, here’s a break down of their mobile page impressions last year across their top countries: Very impressive. BuzzCity placed text banners across their ad network and got 1,798 respondents. Here’s [...]
OpenTable seats 2 million diners via their iPhone/Android app
OpenTable has been a runaway success story in the online restaurant reservations marketplace, consistently killing the competition stone-dead. The power of the service is best observed in America — particularly in the Bay Area, where most of the restaurants I’ve been into actually have an OpenTable reservation system sat there when you walk in the [...]
KangoGift: Instant real gifts by mobile phone
I picked up a story from Iconoculture about KangoGift this afternoon. Here’s how they describe it: * Beta site KangoGift is now providing the hookup for what might be called presentexting. The service lets gift givers send text-message (SMS) vouchers for real presents. * KangoGift (located in Cambridge, MA) is currently only partnering with businesses [...]
I just signed up for an o2 Money prepay debit card
I walked by the o2 shop in Chiswick last week and saw they’d changed their posters. Both shop windows are now covered in o2 Money branding. Fascinating stuff. It appears to be like any other prepay debit card arrangement out there. Load money on to it and use it as much as you like. Only, [...]
O2 launch ‘O2 Money’ pre-paid credit cards
Interesting news on O2′s launch of their pre-paid credit cards. They are launching 2 Visa cards in mid August one called the ‘Cash Manager’ and the other ‘Load and Go”. The o2 money site says: “O2 is all about finding the best ways of connecting you to your world. And we know that you’d appreciate [...]
Take card payments on your Nokia with TaxiPay
Well this is rather neat. A company by the name of Adelante is offering TaxiPay for mobile handsets. The service is targeted initially at Taxi Drivers who’d like to be able to take card payments with the minimum of fuss — it’s a really cool idea. – It takes about a week to get setup [...]
The Highs and Lows of 2008.
What an interesting year! Since I joined the formerly SMS Text News/MIR team in July of this year, a lot has happened. But there has also been so much more too… And here are some of my highlights, or should I say, more notable occurrences! The iPhone 3G! This was bound to appear somewhere, and [...]
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- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
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Would you like to spend $1,100 on a Cisco Cius or $399 on an iPad?
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Ewan: That's got to be good news for Nokia in India?...
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