Archive for the ‘m-Commerce’ Category
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
In 2005, I conducted a study on m-commerce for microfinance as part of my action consultancy at the Asian Institute of Management.
In my meetings with microfinance members, I brought along a ... 1.5Megapixel Kodak camera to take snapshots of our activities.
I'm glad to hear from my friend John that there ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
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Globe is raising the incentive to use G-Cash. They've made it more attractive for subscribers to use G-Cash to buy load.
I have friends who are earning quite a good profit by loading airtime through G-Cash. They get themselves some G-Cash and use it to buy ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
I was very excited to read the full page advertisements of Globe and Western Union's remittance partnership. They finally piloted the service in Hawaii.
To recall, a few months ago
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
New clipping from GMANews.TV:
MANILA, Philippines - Citibank, the largest credit card issuer in the country, plans to boost market share by pushing prospective cardholders to make purchases using mobile phones.
Citibank on Friday launched CitiMobile, which allows cardholders to order food, reload prepaid phones, buy Internet time, or pay bills without ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
I was at an MRT station Yesterday and was wondering what passengers were watching while waiting for the train.
They were watching the MRT TV's, those sleek, black flat-screen TV's at MRT stations. The TV was flashing some movie trailers and other clips from Omniprime Marketing Inc. (OMI). Thus the name of ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I got this lead from dlethe01:
November 15, 2007 - OMI Mobile Solutions conducted its internal live test at MRT North Ave. Station to Taft Ave. Station. Succesfully activated OMI E-Wallet and purchase single journey MRT mobile tickets for SMART Communications and SUN Cellular.
http://www.omniprime.net/
Some notes:
Not much detail in the omniprime website. ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Colleague John Owens from RBAP MABS keeps me attuned with developments in their mobile phone banking solutions for Rural Banks.
John's group has a website ( Mobile Phone Banking for clients of Rural Banks - http://mobilephonebanking.rbap.org/ ) that brings together information about Mobile Phone banking solutions for Rural Banks.
They have information about the different ...
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Look what we've got.
Smart is coming out with a technology-enabled / mobile-commerce-enabled transportation pass at the MRT.
Evidence is a spiffy silver booth at the North Ave Station of the MRT labelled "Metropass" and sporting a Smart Money poster. I didn't find any details about the Metropass service, though. I had a ...
Posted in Edong's Dreams, m-Commerce | 19 Comments »
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
An e-mail question from a Pinay (married to a Japanese ata):
GUD PM PO.PWEDE PO BANG MAKAPAGPADALA SA JAPAN NG PERA GAMIT ANG G-CASH?PANO PO?
My reply:
Wala pa hong International G-Cash Outlet sa Japan. (See List of International G-Cash partners)
International G-Cash Outlets
Provinces and Countries are listed alphabetically
"List as of 02/20/2006"
* ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
I found a post from Nox about m-Commerce and microfinance in the Philippines. I couldn't tell which World Bank reference he's reading although it sounds familiar.
It reminded me of a paper which I've kept in my Inbox.
I posted the paper on Mobile Tulay:
In April 2006, I got an email from ...
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