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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the last decade Africa has gained a reputation for global leadership in mobile money, with Kenya at the forefront, but up to now financial services via mobile phones have not taken deep root in the continent’s most populace country — Nigeria. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan.

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

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Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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Mobiles leapfrog the fixed internet in Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent. Now phone companies are taking the opportunity to offer mobile data services and internet access.

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Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The latest on Web 2.0 in Australia: Showcasing the best | Main | Particls switches on the power of RSS » Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash?

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Video goggles will unleash mobile video - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Once this is commonplace, mobile video and content will be unleashed. Permalink | View blog reactions | Comments (1) Categories : Technology trends Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook 1 Comments mobile video said: great blog, i also like mobile video!

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Device convergence in our pockets - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

examines how mobile phones, PDAs, portable computers and more are converging. It quotes me as follows: According to Ross Dawson, chairman of the Future Networks think tank, other obstacles will also frustrate users looking for a portable mobile computing solution. When you do that you cannot see it.

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