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Farah Alam

BBC NEWS | Business | Africa's mobile banking revolution - 0 views

  • Millions of Africans are using mobile phones to pay bills, move cash and buy basic everyday items.
  • Setting up a bank account on your phone is straightforward. All you do is register with an approved agent, provide your phone, along with an ID card, and then deposit some cash onto your account.
Elvira Russ

BBC NEWS | Technology | A life recorded in bits and bytes - 0 views

  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
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  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
    • Bhumika Regmi
       
      The plan is that one can include all of their information on to the programme like Gordon Bell. If the system is to fail or have some sort of error, one's privacy as well as security is at stake.
  • in the future we may all be able to offload our own memory into a comprehensive e-memory.
    • Bhumika Regmi
       
      Applications
  • Bell, a principle researcher at Microsoft Research, has now written a book about how
    • Bhumika Regmi
       
      education
  • "You basically have a great sense of freedom, because you are able to offload your bio-memory, and just commit all of the facts to an e-memory."
  • He said that the time is right for people to take e-memories seriously.
  • "I wouldn't have said this 20 years ago because of the difficulty and the cost to do it. The opportunity now is: it doesn't cost anything to do this."
  • For Mr Bell the benefit of his experiment is simple: it makes him feel better.
  • "I have a reasonably complicated life - so I wanted to find out just how many bits were coming and going, and how to deal with it."
  • His life is kept in a database for a project called MyLifeBits.
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    Gordon Bell has digitised his entire life, from shopping receipts to phone calls.
Maliha Rahman

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | A hi-tech guide to saving money - 0 views

  • Splashing cash on fancy gadgets can often be seen as a luxury especially during an economic downturn - but can we save money by upgrading our existing tech rather than investing in brand new gear?
    • Maliha Rahman
       
      areas of impact-- business
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