ebay Australia has required all new sellers to offer paypal as a payment option for several months now.
Looks like another case of testing a measure out in a smaller yet similar market before rolling it out to larger markets.
Thanks for the link, however it seems to be like all the other IM clients out there, where the conversation is turn based (ie it doesn't show what you have typed until you press enter). PowWow showed what was being typed in real time, with the ability to easily handle multiple participants.
Powwow chat by Tribal Voice is one app that died (was killed) way before its time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)
It had it all, VoIP, whiteboard, games, duplex text chatting, joint web surfing just to name a few.
No chat program has come close to the features and ease of use since (if anyone knows of one that does, please let me know).
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ebay Australia has required all new sellers to offer paypal as a payment option for several months now. Looks like another case of testing a measure out in a smaller yet similar market before rolling it out to larger markets.
It would be an interesting exercise for somebody to try and patent your idea as a test to how (in)effective the patent office really is.
Thanks for the link, however it seems to be like all the other IM clients out there, where the conversation is turn based (ie it doesn't show what you have typed until you press enter). PowWow showed what was being typed in real time, with the ability to easily handle multiple participants.
Powwow chat by Tribal Voice is one app that died (was killed) way before its time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)
It had it all, VoIP, whiteboard, games, duplex text chatting, joint web surfing just to name a few.
No chat program has come close to the features and ease of use since (if anyone knows of one that does, please let me know).
Vodafone has just released a series of phones that meet the majority of your requirements.D %253D504%2526LANGUAGE_ID%253D0%2526CONTENT_ID%253D 258796,00.html?
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Vodafone has a partnership with Verizon, so they may become available in the US in the future. Read about it here http://www.vodafone.com/article/0,3029,CATEGORY_I
and Vodafone New Zealand has more details http://www.vodafone.co.nz/mobiles/simply/index.ht
Vodafone in New Zealand have just launched a series of phones that do just that (ie being a phone) in response to a customer feedback. Have a look here http://vodafone.co.nz/mobiles/gen/mobile_details_v f_simply_vs1_curvy.jsp?hd=foryou&st=mobiles&ss=
and http://vodafone.co.nz/mobiles/gen/mobile_details_v odafone_simply_vs2.jsp?hd=foryou&st=mobiles&ss=
These phones were launched a week or so ago so I don't know how well they work, but at least somebody is listening to consumers.
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Flake http://www.cadbury.com.au/sites/cadbury/index.php
Rice Bubbles http://www.kelloggs.com.au/DisplayPage.asp?BrandI
Jelly - Jello (what you yanks refer to as jelly we call jam).