Mobile Payments - M-Payments

The main talk of mobile payments is in reaching the unbanked, as if they are a market just waiting to become banked, and the reason they don’t use a bank is a lack of access to them, or some kind of fear of ATM cards.

Surely the issue here is not one of regulatory frameworks or technology, which seems to be what everyone thinks is the issues holding back the adoption of mobile payments and banking, instead it’s the core question for any business, why? Why should a customer use the system, what is the benefit to them?

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Conferences - The M-Pay Nigeria Conference

I’m currently sat at Agip Hall, Muson Centre waiting for the M-Pay conference to start. It was supposed to start at 10am with registration between 9 and 10, and at teh moment it’s 10:35 with no sign of it starting any time soon.

I’ve been to a fair few conferences in my time and being sat here observing the activity going on around me made me think about what the do’s and don'ts of conferences are.

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Lagos Traffic - Free Online Service

So eNowNow.com is launching it's free online traffic service in beta form at traffic.enownow.com . At present we only have VI, Ikoyi and Lekki covered but please hop on over and take a look. Three more routes that cover the bridges and the mainland will also be launching soon.

You can also sign up for free updates via SMS or email at a particular time each day. At the moment updates might be quite far apart as we fine tune our traffic collection patterns so please bear with us.

Moving Blog

I'm moving my blog over to eNowNow's new social network hownow.socialgo.com please come visit me there the direct URL to my blog is hownow.socialgo.com/members/profile/2/blog

Netbooks' notebooks and sub notebooks

The Register does it again with their guide to "Do you have a Netbook?"

Okere win first battle against Navy

Uzoma Okere, the young lady who was brutally beaten by the Naval Ratings of Rear Admiral Arogundade has won the first battle in her case for 100m Naira of compensation.

http://www.enownow.com/news/story.php?sno=2720

Live webchat with Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State

January the 18th 2009 will see Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola taking part in a live webchat at www.enownow.com

The event which will begin at noon on Sunday is part of the Governor's 600 days in office celebrations and will see visitors to the eNowNow chat-room being given the opportunity to ask questions directly to Governor Fashola.

To register for this event visit www.enownow.com/community/fashola/ and then on Sunday at noon simply visit www.enownow.com and click the chatNow button