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  1. Re:I hope not... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015

    I work for a European banking software house, and buddy, you couldn't be more wrong if you tried. We're betting the house on this technology going large, and from the in-house previews, I can tell you, this is sweet. Full financial management on your iPad on Android device, free.
    Our customer banks are already using Near Field Communications, and grandma doesn't even need to take her purse out of her bag and rummage around for her wallet and coins. Her phone WILL PROMPT HER for the "go" code, and it will be MUCH faster than some pseudo-geek paging through his antiquated app library. You really should read up a little and get with the program, sharky. As for giving cash, pffft - your niece is a generation ahead of you already, and she'll happily accept an e-transfer direct to her account, just like she gets her pocket money from her Mom & Dad.
    http://www.telecomtv.com/go/?ct=1&cid=47829&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10 - NFC payments will hit $670 BILLION in 4 years - you, my dear friend, are a dinosaur. Over here in Europe, we already have "walk through" checkouts - we've scanned everything before we get to the check-out, packed our goods in our own bags, put the scanner in the receptacle on the way out and wave the mobile phone to pay.
    Perhaps you wizards in the US will be using cash a lot longer than the rest of us, given your evangelicals fear of 666 branding, but you'll catch up eventually.
    Cashless society ? I barely see cash at all from one week to the next.

  2. Mobile phones by Anspen · · Score: 1 · on Dutch To Introduce Net Neutrality By Law
    The apparent cause of the amendment is interesting. Net neutrality has of course been an issue for some time. The reason the Dutch Parliament (and the relevant minister) are making a move now seems to be the result of the discovery a few weeks back that (at least) one of the mobile network carriers used deep packet inspection to block the use of Skype and Whatsapp. The company argued that they had to since people where making significantly less calls and send far fewer text messages.

    So while the Dutch parliament does seem to be less in the pockets of major companies, a part of the difference between US and the Netherlands seems to be the argumentation used by the companies. Basically they explicitly argued they wanted to block certain apps because they where cheaper for consumers. Which is a far worse argument than the one that has been used by many US opponents of net neutrality, e.i. "Google/youtube/etc. are using soooo much bandwidth we have to make them pay for it”. Which is a bullshit argument, but easier to hide behind.

  3. Re:Sell your Nokia shares. by nxtw · · Score: 1 · on Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products

    No, your statistics are measuring web traffic to certain mobile websites, including those that provide J2ME apps - which would be significantly biased towards J2ME-only phones and biased towards phones with J2ME capability.

    Nokia is actually losing market share, both overall and in the smartphone market. RIM and Apple's sales are growing in the smartphone market, but Apple is really close to RIM (see the third link). Nokia is losing low-end market share to Korean manufacturers in particular (Samsung and LG).

  4. Re:Um by FriendlyLurker · · Score: 1 · on UK "Creative Industries" Call For File-Sharers Ban

    Didn't the European Parliament just rule that this sort of thing was illegal?

    Yes, probably why they are trying to motivate the UK gov to resist (as if it needed any more motivation).

    "according to an expert an the specialised area that is European politics, this amendment could be significant and might spike the guns of the pro-copyright "flog 'em and hang 'em' brigade" (now led by French President, Nicholas Sarkozy)."
    http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?newsid=43004&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10

    spike the guns, indeed.

  5. Re:E-Bay by Alsee · · Score: 2 · on Karl Auerbach Wins Right To Inspect ICANN Records

    I'd have figured they'd have all been Bought Now pretty quickly.

    Nah. The supply ran dry briefly when Enron bought them all up, but then they dumped them back onto E-Bay just in time for the Arthur Andersen buy-up, who then dumped them back on E-Bay just in time for the California government Oracle debacle...

    At which point they the E-Bay supply did briefly dry up because California did an internal transfer of the machines to their INS Center.

    But they dumped them back on the market in plenty of time for Global Crossing Inc. to buy them up and subsequently dump them back on the market for ICANN to buy them up.

    The tobacco companies however, do not participate in E-Bay auctions. They have standing policies on shredding documents. They keep "document shredders located 'throughout the building', as well as of a 'disintegrator' in the basement". Apparently they have to shred so many documents that they still have to "contract with security firm Group 4 to shred those less sensitive papers".

    And, and an added bonus, here's a link to THE ART OF RECONSTRUCTING SHREDDED DOCUMENTS.

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