Points Of Interest: Femtocells, Mobile Banking And Natural Disasters

by Justin on September 25, 2008

Femtocell in a Photo Frame: Motorola has taken a CDMA femtocell and masked it within a digital photo frame as well as a VOIP softphone!

Sprint Offers Mobile Banking Application: Hit the link to check out the details; the real significance here is that portable GPS in tandem with apps like Yelp, further extended with mobile banking could change the way we shop.

Visa’s Charge Card Concept Goes Wireless: Visa is teaming up with both Nokia and Android based phones to allow its credit card customers to transfer money, pay bills, and receive real-time account alerts.  The Android deal will also allow Chase Visa customers to receive deals from merchants on their mobile phones with their location displayed on Google Maps.

Nokia Data Gathering: Free software for the public sector to collect data on mobile phones in the event of a natural disaster or disease outbreak.  Info can be collected on a mobile device, geotagged using GPS and sent to a central database.  The Amazonas State Health Department in Brazil will be first to give it a go tracking dengue fever.

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