--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:33:16 -0500 To: Philodox Clips List <clips@philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: PayPal Goes Mobile <http://mobilecrunch.com/> MobileCrunch March 22, 2006 PayPal Goes Mobile! Posted by Oliver | Discussion: 1 comment Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, comes this amazing news from PayPal that PayPal is launching a mobile product! According the the Internet Payment Giant's website, it is now possible to send and recieve money via mobile phones as well as make purchases directly from a mobile phone. According to their published materials: Send money to friends and family Send money securely, anytime, from wherever you are. You don't need cash or a check - just your phone. After you activate your phone, you can send money one of two ways: * Text to 729725 (PAYPAL) with the amount and recipient's phone number. Example: send 5 to 4150001234 Or * Call 1-800-4PAYPAL (1-800-472-9725) and follow the instructions. Since a picture is worth more than a thousand words, here's a screen cap from their website. I'll be revisiting this later today with more details. Tags: m-commerce, mobile-money, PayPal, PayPal-Mobile, OliverStarr, mobile-commerce Categories: Uncategorized | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us Google's New F-Finance Beta Pretty on Mobile but Lacking Substance Posted by Oliver | Discussion: 1 comment Another day, another Google Beta. Pretty soon they'll have to start giving them numeric designations instead of names. Today's suspect is Google Finance which was apparently released yesterday in beta (of course) with little fanfare. If you enter the URL into a mobile phone it automatically mobilizes the content so that it is easier to read (which is a plus here, but a disaster on many other websites that have already been optimized by the site's original authors- and a topic about which I will post on shortly). The content is a little light however, as I will demonstrate in the below images where I searched for Foldera (FDRA.ob) on both Google Finance and via YubNub. The results speak for themselves. Categories: Google Mobile, Announcements, Analysis | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'