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Your Cell Phone as a Wallet by Anu Partanen Friday, March 13, 2009 by CNNMoney.com
Upstart Paymo, with the help of wireless carriers, aims to help U.S. consumers make mobile payments........ Forget cash, checks or plastic: In places like Japan and Finland, consumers can pay for train rides or even merchandise with a wave of their phones or via text message. Then there's the U.S. The mobile phone has yet to become a tool for payments here, largely because the different players in the mobile payment ecosystem --wireless operators, banks, credit card companies and software providers -- have tended to squabble over how to divide the fees from such transactions.
.......Paymo, a two-year-old mobile payment network, says it has forged deals with four U.S. carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, Cellular One and Virgin Mobile -- that will allow users to buy digital goods online and pay with their mobile phone..
....The service is already working in 45 countries....
GSM mobile phone tracking system via the GPS-TRACK satellite network Based on repeater triangulation, the system tracks mobile phones using GPS and GSM technology We are not responsible for possible tracking errors that may occur. Approximate margin of error: 10 meters (max.) for mobile phones in Europe and the U.K. 25 meters (max.) for mobile phones in the U.S.A., South America and Canada. 50 meters (max.) for mobile phones elsewhere. This system will not work in countries without GSM technology networks.
Mobile Phone Tracking - Know where your child is Posted: Apr 10th, 2009 |
All over the world, there has to be at least a case of child kidnapping that occurs. After the kidnapping, the kidnappers usually ask for very large ransoms that are normally out of reach of the family affected.....
But I have good news for you. You can keep track of your child by using his/her phone. This will work well especially of your phone is a 3G phone
.....I say this because there is new software that has been created to help individuals track their phones after losing it or after a mugging or theft. ....
Originally posted by Anubis_4400
Are you guys really going to over look the advantages of this technology.
Advantages
1) It can be used to store medical record, Allowing your doctors to treat you almost immediately after an accident.
2) You wouldn't have to carry around cash, credit cards, or your check book etc.
3) Prevents Convicted criminals from repeated past actions. Do you really want a pedophile buying tickets to Disney world or going anywhere near your child's school.
4) It could be used to locate missing people or criminals who are on the run.
Originally posted by saabster5
Originally posted by Anubis_4400
Are you guys really going to over look the advantages of this technology.
Advantages
1) It can be used to store medical record, Allowing your doctors to treat you almost immediately after an accident.
2) You wouldn't have to carry around cash, credit cards, or your check book etc.
3) Prevents Convicted criminals from repeated past actions. Do you really want a pedophile buying tickets to Disney world or going anywhere near your child's school.
4) It could be used to locate missing people or criminals who are on the run.
1) Maybe not so bad, but mistakes are still made on computers.
2) What happens when they turn off your bank account?
3) Because someone was convicted and did their time means they are still guilty?
4) Why stop at tracking criminals/missing people?
The feeling of safety should never come at the price of relinquishing your inalienable rights. I for one do not want to be tracked. I cancelled my cell phone recently and am living happily without it. And, the thought of not be able to purchase food/water/shelter without any means besides "credit" is downright scary.
1) It can be used to store medical record, Allowing your doctors to treat you almost immediately after an accident.
2) You wouldn't have to carry around cash, credit cards, or your check book etc.
3) Prevents Convicted criminals from repeated past actions. Do you really want a pedophile buying tickets to Disney world or going anywhere near your child's school.
4) It could be used to locate missing people or criminals who are on the run.
Originally posted by saabster5
reply to post by Anubis_4400
If you didnt feel safe before the advent of computers, then maybe computers are not the problem....