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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Claire Cain Miller, Payment Method Bypasses the Wallet. New York Times,
May 24, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/technology
/24pay.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=wallet%20name&st=cse
Note:
(a) Square, Inc: Headquarters San Francisco, CA; Launched 2010.
Wikipedia
Its web site is
www.saqureup.com
* square (vi): "to settle matters; especially : to pay the bill" www.m-w.
com
* "square up": "Settle a bill or debt, as in The others went to get the car
while he squared up with the waiter. This idiom derives from square in the
sense of 'set straight.' [Early 1800s]"
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer (1997).
http://dictionary.reference.com/idioms/square+up
(b) I did not quite understand what the report says. So go directly to
Square web site, whose mid-section is about "Card Case" app. Click and watch
the video (whose second half is about a previous innovation: credit card
reader attached to a smartphone).
(2) Charles Robertson, Letter to editor: How Kenya Is Streets Ahead of Apple
, Financial Times, Mar 24, 2011
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/63984fc8
-8593-11e0-ae32-00144feabdc0.html
My comment:
(a) To read this short letter requires registration.
(b) The letter talks about "Kenya's M-Pesa system [that] is Sim-based"--"[j]
ust one example of Africa using the fruits of technology to leapfrog the
west."
(c) M-Pesa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
(M for mobile, pesa is Swahili for money; The development was initially
sponsored by the UK-based Department for International Development (DFID) in
2003–2007)
(i) For SIM, see Subscriber Identity Module
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_Identity_Module
(ii) Safaricom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safaricom
(a leading mobile network operator in Kenya)
Quote: "It was formed in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya.
In May 2000, Vodafone group Plc of the United Kingdom, the world's largest
telecommunication company, acquired a 40% stake and management
responsibility for the company.
(d) Press release: Safaricom and Vodafone launch M-PESA, a new mobile
payment service. Vodafone, Mar 13, 2007.
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press/group_press_release
Quote:
"M-PESA is aimed at mobile customers who do not have a bank account * * *
All they need to do is register at an authorised M-PESA Agent by providing
their Safaricom mobile number and their identification card. Once registered
, customers can:
•Put money into their account by depositing cash at a local Agent
•Send money to other mobile phone users by SMS instruction, even if
they are not Safaricom subscribers.
•Withdraw cash at local Agent"
(3) Ann Zimmerman, Check Out the Future of Shopping; Shaving time off the
weekly grocery run to keep consumers in stores and spending. Wall Street
Journal, May 18, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142
4052748703421204576329253050637400.html
(a mobile device: Motorol-made in use at about half of Ahold USA's Stop &
Shop and Giant supermarkets in the Northeast; Home Depot; Starbucks;
Nordstrom; some Target stores) |
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