Tag: mobile phone
Crowds ‘could be counted’ with phone and Twitter data
Nice gig if you can get it: Warwick University researchers studied geo-tagged Tweets and mobile phone use over a two-month period in Milan. Seriously though, this is an unsurprising but interesting piece of research. The article lead me initially to think about the use of mobile data to count crowds at football matches and political demonstrations.…
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Trust: bank account or currency?
On my new mobile phone there was an interesting 90 minute video of Stephen Fry talking about language and words. In fact he described this as a podgram. Fascinating ideas. It got me thinking more about how, with a common language, we can end up at cross purposes with people. Communication often goes wrong. Then…
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O2 money-phone set to go live this year
O2 will be working with Wave Crest, FIS, Intelligent Environments and Visa Europe to get its O2 Money product into a mobile phone before the end of 2011. The new best friends will provide the infrastructure, point of sale terminals and customer support for the phone-embedded service, which is due to launch later this year.…
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