Mobile Payment The new smartphones and the apps they can carry produce a number of business opportunities – incluidng writing and selling apps, and getting involved with the apps such as with Foursquare. Making payments via mobilephone is becoming more common. Now VISA’s payWave is being trialed on the New York subways and taxis.This requires a physical change to the phone, in putting a card into the phone’s memory slot. But what if you are already using the slot? Nonetheless micro payments are becoming a reality, which opens up all manner of new services.
Outages in Social Media: Both Facebook with a two and a half hour outage, and Twitter with a re-tweeting issue.These certainly show these services are not infallible. As businesses place greater reliance on them for marketing and customer service let's hope the problems don't get worse.
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Cloud Security: Of more concern is the Interpol chief’s Facebook account being hacked and the unease in the US that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was enacted way back in 1986 and needs to be updated. Potential cloud users such as the UK Government are also concerned about powers in the US Patriot Act. Together these make using US-hosted cloud services a real issue.
Longevity of Apps: Microsoft has announced that their “Live Spaces” blogging platform will close and some 60 million users will be migrated to Wordpress. This follows their withdrawal in the last couple of years of MS Performance Point planning functionality and MS Money. Whilst the potential withdrawal of software apps has long been an issue when selecting software, Microsoft seem to be making a splash of it.
New Twitter, new revenue. The launch of a new Twitter client and new ways the company is trying to make money provide opportunities for businesses to leverage Twitter
Attending meetings on an iPad New apps available
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