Comments on: Mobile 2.0 at the airport http://lirneasia.net/2008/03/mobile-20-at-the-airport/ LIRNEasia Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:10:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Nuwan http://lirneasia.net/2008/03/mobile-20-at-the-airport/#comment-9575 Nuwan Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:28:25 +0000 http://www.lirneasia.net/2008/03/mobile-20-at-the-airport/#comment-9575 Coupons over mobile phones (see comment 1) - I guess when Americans want to distribute coupons via mobile phones it become a "radical idea" but Asians having been doing the same (long before) simply as part of their daily business. see - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/business/20count.html?ex=1366430400&en=e4262e85816b4bfb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Coupons over mobile phones (see comment 1) - I guess when Americans want to distribute coupons via mobile phones it become a “radical idea” but Asians having been doing the same (long before) simply as part of their daily business.

see - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/business/20count.html?ex=1366430400&en=e4262e85816b4bfb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

]]> By: Nuwan http://lirneasia.net/2008/03/mobile-20-at-the-airport/#comment-9574 Nuwan Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:24:18 +0000 http://www.lirneasia.net/2008/03/mobile-20-at-the-airport/#comment-9574 From tickets to e-tickets to m-tickets ... starting June 1, 2008 more than 240 airlines will issue only electronic tickets, will it take a decade to fade out e-tickets or will it be sooner? -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202882.html?nav=rss_technology Last month their was a China Mobile ad in the local papers saying that if we paid over RMB 100 then we would get a RMB 65 worth can of cooking oil (value back). My wife transfered money from the bank using "her" mobile phone to China Mobile ... they sent an SMS with a 15 digit code to "my" mobile phone. I went over to Carrefour (French supper market) presented them my mobile phone with the received SMS, they scanner the message with another handheld device and handed me the can of oil. From tickets to e-tickets to m-tickets … starting June 1, 2008 more than 240 airlines will issue only electronic tickets, will it take a decade to fade out e-tickets or will it be sooner? — http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202882.html?nav=rss_technology

Last month their was a China Mobile ad in the local papers saying that if we paid over RMB 100 then we would get a RMB 65 worth can of cooking oil (value back). My wife transfered money from the bank using “her” mobile phone to China Mobile … they sent an SMS with a 15 digit code to “my” mobile phone. I went over to Carrefour (French supper market) presented them my mobile phone with the received SMS, they scanner the message with another handheld device and handed me the can of oil.

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