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Catégorie : Machine-to-Machine

Friday 3 July 2009

Zain, Western Union in cross-border money transfer deal

Mobile operator Zain Group and Western Union announced that they will work together to deliver mobile money transfer services in countries in Africa and the Middle East through Zain s new Zap platform. The Zap service provides Zain customers access to a range of transactional services from their mobile phones. Customers can interact with select bank accounts, top-up or transfer airtime, and move money to businesses, friends and family. The service allows customers to pay bills such as (...)

lundi 22 juin 2009

LIFT France 09

Cette conférence, qui s’est tenue à Marseille du 18 au 20 Juin 2009, est la septième d’une série de rencontres qui tournent entre l’Europe et l’Asie et qui « réunit une communauté de pionniers qui explorent les implications sociales des nouvelles technologies. Chaque conférence se veut une occasion de transformer des changements en opportunités en anticipant les grandes mutations à venir et en rencontrant les personnes qui en sont motrices ». C’est la première fois qu’elle se déroule en France, (...)

Monday 25 May 2009

T-Mobile announces "embedded SIM" for machine-to-machine solutions

T-Mobile has announced the first-of-its-kind embedded SIM for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions. Nearly the size of a head of a pin, the durable embedded SIM withstands challenging environmental factors such as temperature, humidity and motion to deliver reliable wireless connectivity. The embedded SIM is ideal for telematics and smart grid infrastructure solutions where environmental factors may reduce reliability and increase maintenance costs of removable SIM-based (...)