Sony updated its smart watch Tuesday, introducing the Sony SmartWatch 2 at Shanghai's Mobile Asia Expo. Designed to be used as a second screen for your Android smartphone, the water-resistant smart watch has NFC (near-field communication) connectivity, and can be personalized with apps based on how you want to use it.
Beyond the obvious lawsuits and it's a day late and dollar short, I thought this was good example since the massive Chinese population won't be able to afford the Apple ecosystem.
Thanks to a cobbled together-by-necessity system of money-transfer posts from Somaliland’s diaspora and a surging mobile banking industry, the country has to do away with cash.
Selesom, the major mobile carrier has launched a service where cash is completely bypassed. Mobile banking in Africa is nothing new and is far more advanced in the West or Asia, but Somaliland can take this to a further level
In less than six months more than 80,000 people in Hargesia have signed up with Selesom for its ZAAD mobile money service for money transfers
Solaliland (not a formally recognized country with non-formally-recognized currency) will be the first country to extinguish cash
they have no ATMs, locals think credit cards are ridiculous
really interesting
Fatboy Slim did a live show on Nico Nico Douga, and the use of real-time comments over the videos (one of the primary features of the video service) spurred new ways of interacting and made the show more fun for participants and Fatboy Slim.