development

Making Money Mobile – Of Value and Values

Mobile banking, mobile commerce and mobile money for us is mostly out of interest and stems from noticing the opportunity that exists in these areas – a business opportunity.  For others it is about the gadgets, the novelty and the convenience.  In other places around the world, mobile becomes a vehicle through which people can [...]

December 15, 2010 Read the full article →

Making the Most of Mobile Through Partnerships

I have commented about this same topic before… to some of you personally. Just wrote a little something over at the other site but thought I would paste it here directly: … the entire mobile banking landscape will succeed only through partnerships. Banks partnering with other service providers… (but to what extreme? And at what [...]

February 26, 2010 Read the full article →

Of Context and Content

Here is an obvious statement for you to think about: In mobile, context and content are inseperable. Or at least they should be considered inseparable. Context will affect the way you relate to the content available to you.  At times content may affect the way you relate to your context and even force you to [...]

November 4, 2009 Read the full article →

The Right Device for the Developing World

A while back we wrote a post entitled Mobile Technology, Poverty and Development which was fairly well received.  Although this topic may be considered slightly off-topic to some of you it is still a very hot topic out there.   If you are interested Quocirca has a small write-up on entitled – The right device for [...]

September 15, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Technology, Poverty and Development

Slightly off topic… but as I was catching up on some of my Google Reader reading I came across this post by Hannes over at the Mobile Banking Blog on Defeating Poverty.  Over the last year I have come across this topic perhaps hundreds of times.  Those of you who follow the mobile space beyond [...]

March 20, 2009 Read the full article →