Can Mobile Banking Revolutionize the Lives of the Poor? Kenya’s mobile payment system, M-PESA, introduced in 2007, enriched the lives of Kenyans and gradually spread to other countries. M-PESA allows cellphone users to save and transfer money and use SMS to exchange funds over the network. But will mobile money actually transform the lives of […]
Japan’s Robot Hotel; Mobile Money; Street View Bangladesh
Posted February 5th, 2015 at 2:17 pm (UTC-5)
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Tech Sightings, November 20, 2014
Posted November 20th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-5)
Africa’s Mobile Money Goes to Europe with M-Pesa Africa’s money transfer system, M-Pesa, launched in 2007, now has some 17 million active users worldwide. And with the recent launch of a mobile wallet in Romania, M-Pesa in expected to continue its advance in the European market. New Tool Helps Spy Victims Detect Government Surveillance German […]
Tech Sightings, June 24, 2014
Posted June 24th, 2014 at 2:25 pm (UTC-5)
Nineteen Year-Old Dies After Abuse in Chinese ‘Internet Rehab’ In China, where Internet addiction is now categorized as a mental illness, a 19-year-old student recently died at a so-called Internet-addiction recovery camp in Henan province. The girl was allegedly struck and kicked repeatedly. An autopsy showed she died from skull injuries and brain damage. ‘Bionic […]