I'm soliciting speakers for the Mobile Payments Conference to be held Sept. 8 and 9, 2011 in New York.
We anticipate session content including:
* retailer programs
* mobile wallet services and platforms
* mobile payment approaches
* terminal and device choices
* payment ecosystems
* business and revenue models
If you want to speak, or suggest a firm or speaker you'd like to hear, please ping me.
The second Mobile Payments Conference will grow to feature a fuller look at wallet business models and transaction models, with additional attention to retailer strategies that have become more public, as well as a deeper look at the retail terminal perspective, now that some leaders now will strive to achieve a critical mass of users.
As we did at the last conference, we will use a highly-collaborative setting designed for maximum participant conversation. In part, that means using an approach very akin to a graduate seminar. We keep presentations short, and, since most attendees are subject matter experts in some part of the ecosystem, we structure the physical setting and time allocations to maximize conversations, as would be expected in a seminar setting.
Contact Gary Kim at garykim.denver@gmail.com to participate or recommend speakers and topics. Contact Marla Ellerman at marla@mmtmagonline.com for information on sponsorships and exhibits.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Mobile Payments Conference Call for Speakers
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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Ahmad also thinks Apple will soon release a 'cheap' iPhone priced in the $300 range (before subsidies) to fight off cheaper competition. At that rate, a subsidized device could sell for $50 to $100.
Ahmad also thinks Apple will soon release a 'cheap' iPhone priced in the $300 range (before subsidies) to fight off cheaper competition. At that rate, a subsidized device could sell for $50 to $100.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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"Starting now, Google Maps for mobile and desktop can tell you when your ride is actually going to arrive with new live transit updates. We partnered with transit agencies to integrate live transit data in four U.S. cities and two European cities: Boston, Portland, Ore., San Diego, San Francisco, Madrid and Turin.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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Mobile retail users skew younger and wealthier than the general mobile audience, according to Millennial Media and comScore. The highest percentage of mobile retail users, 36%, are between the ages of 25 to 34. That tends to be a common profile for many new applications, services and products, though.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
HTML5 Can Do Anything an iOS App Can Do, Financial Times Says
"Anything an iOS app can do, the web can do better, Rob Grimshaw, The Financial Times’ online managing director says. It had better, since the Financial Times does not want to do business with the Apple App Store under the prevailing terms and conditions
“We started off not knowing what could be achieved (in HTML),” Grimshaw said. “But, one by one, we found that all the things that could be done in a native app actually could be done in a HTML5 app - and we haven’t had to compromise on anything, though we were expecting to.
“We’ve benefited from our exposure in the app store - Apple were very good, they promoted our app quite heavily and we were very grateful. But app stores are not a panacea. There are something like 250,000 apps on Apple’s app store, 150,000 on Google’s - these are turning in to pretty crowded environments. The search and discovery tools are not that great and there are limited ways to market your app.
“We started off not knowing what could be achieved (in HTML),” Grimshaw said. “But, one by one, we found that all the things that could be done in a native app actually could be done in a HTML5 app - and we haven’t had to compromise on anything, though we were expecting to.
“We’ve benefited from our exposure in the app store - Apple were very good, they promoted our app quite heavily and we were very grateful. But app stores are not a panacea. There are something like 250,000 apps on Apple’s app store, 150,000 on Google’s - these are turning in to pretty crowded environments. The search and discovery tools are not that great and there are limited ways to market your app.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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Previous studies on the world's forests have tended to focus solely on forest area, often measured by satellite, but according to the US and European researchers compiling the report this misses out on the fact that in many cases more tree mass is appearing as forests get denser, with taller trees and more of them.
'To speak of carbon, we must look beyond measurements of area and apply forestry methods traditionally used to measure timber volumes,” says forestry expert Paul Waggoner. 'Forests are like cities: they can grow both by spreading and by becoming denser,' says Iddo Wernick, another study author.
For example, according to US Forest Service figures, US timberland grew by only 1 per cent over the period 1953 to 2007. But this figure doesn't reflect the true story: the volume of growing stock increased by 51 per cent, and overall national forest density was well up.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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