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University Students Say “Yes” to Mobile Ads

Supporting the idea that the youth market is prime for mobile (see Going to Market: The Mobile Youth Market), see the results from a survey at Ball State University as reported at MobiAdNetwork: Technically oriented college students are increasingly receptive to receiving advertising…

On Mobile Transactions

Mobile transactions is more complicated, and interesting, than it first appears or sounds. Juniper Research predicts that by 2011: “Person-to-Person (P2P) fund transfers and mobile payments in the developing world, together with the commercialization of NFC based mobile payments, will generate transactions worth…

The ATM is 40 years old, the demise of cash, and the future of payments

Photo source: BBC article The man who invented the cash machine The Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is 40 years old. Invented by John Shepherd-Baron (OBE recipient) of Scotland, and first deployed at a branch of Barclays in Enfield, north London, the ATM changed…