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Three powerful ways to disrupt aid payments and disbursements

Peter Christo, from MEF Member and mobile payment specialists Novatti shares insights into how tokenised payments can revitalise charity and aid contributions and disbursement. Radical and Disruptive innovation are resulting in real and painful business disruption, and you don’t need to look far past what your taxi driver thinks of…
Sam Hill
October 11, 2016
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Phone theft: the twilight of daylight robbery

Bad news for the once-thriving phone theft community. Thanks to the 'kill switch', they can no longer do their jobs properly. Tim Green celebrates as he locks away his jewellery... Wanna stolen iPhone? You’ll be lucky. Apparently, thieves have gone right off them. Recently I met up with my cousin-in-law…
Tim Green
September 7, 2016
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Your phone is the new piano, but a bit smaller

Mobile 'won' music. Only oldies use 'hi-fis' to listen to their favourites songs now. But mobile companies didn't win. Tim Green ponders what happened to Sony Ericsson PlayNow and the rest... Do you know when today’s music industry began? You might guess it was when the first sheet music was…
Tim Green
August 25, 2016
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Not even a flicker – where are all the projector phones?

Today's phones do everything: take pictures, give directions, play music. So why can't they project movies? Seven years after writing about phone projectors, Tim Green is still waiting to own one... Two years ago my family had a dream. We would build a cinema in our back garden. OK, not…
Tim Green
August 11, 2016
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I’m overseas – and I’m totally roaming my face off

Data roaming is one of the last remnants of the ‘old’ mobile order – of a time before VoIP and OTT services. Now, prices are falling. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing for the world’s operators, says Tim Green (on a ‘free’ tariff overseas) … This week…
Tim Green
August 4, 2016
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