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  • 5 Reason Series: How Mobile Applications For Accounting Help Indian MSMEs Stay On Top Of Their Business

    Currently, India has roughly 700 million internet users across the country. However, despite the huge number, digital adaptation by small businesses is very less. While the big businesses are entirely dependent upon accounting software, those in the MSME sector still do their accounting on paper.

    Most MSMEs are still unstructured and hire accountants for their daily entries. To be more organized, small businesses need to adopt modern and faster techniques of accounting. To this end, many mobile apps have been designed to make it easier for MSMEs to go digital in their bookkeeping. Digital accounting methods have numerous benefits such as:

  • 330m Africans will own cellphones in 2008

    Africa is projected to experience a 22 per cent jump in its mobile phone subscriber base during 2008, with the number of people owning a phone increasing from the current 270 million to 330 million. The Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA) — a global trade association representing 700 GSM celullar operators in 215 countries — says mobile phone penetration will also rise by a corresponding 5 per cent from 28.78 per cent in 2007 to 33.9 per cent in 2008.
  • Berlin plant ab 2007 Handy-Ticketing

    Spätestens Anfang nächsten Jahres sollen Fahrgäste in allen 43 Bus- und Bahnbetrieben des Verkehrsverbunds Berlin -Brandenburg (VBB) ihre Fahrkartemit dem Handy ordern können.

    Die technischen Voraussetzungen seien vorhanden, sagte der Geschäftsführer des Verkehrsverbundes Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB), Hans-Werner Franz. Statt zur Verkaufsstelle oder zum Automaten zu gehen, könnten Fahrgäste ab 2007 Einzeltickets oder Tageskarten nach vorangegangener Online-Registrierung über eine Kurzwahl anfordern. Der Kaufpreis wird anschließend per Handy-Rechnung abgebucht. Eigentlich habe der VBB die Einführung zur Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft vorgesehen, was aber an der Verzögerung bei den Mitgliedsfirmen gescheitert sei, so Franz.

  • Deutschland ist am besten auf mBusiness vorbereitet

    Die Weichen für die mobile Zukunft sind hierzulande gestellt. Nirgendwo sonst in Europa ist man so gut auf die Nutzung von Mobile Business vorbereitet.
  • Deutschland ist am besten auf Mobile Business vorbereitet

    Deutsche Manager nutzen selbst PDAs

    Die deutsche Wirtschaft hat sich in Europa am besten auf die Nutzung von Mobile Business vorbereitet. Dies soll eine vergleichende Untersuchung der Beratungsgesellschaft CMG über mobile Arbeitsplätze in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Frankreich und den Niederlanden zu Tage gefördert haben.

  • Handy statt Geldbeutel: Der steinige Weg zum Mobile Payment

    Ein kostenloser Anruf mit dem Handy, und die Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe schicken den Fahrschein für Bus oder U-Bahn per SMS. Theoretisch ließen sich viele solcher alltäglichen Geschäfte schnell und praktisch per Mobiltelefon erledigen -- in Hanau beispielsweise startete ein Modellversuch, der ebenfalls das Bezahlen von Bus- und Bahn-Ticket per Handy ermöglichen soll, und das ganz ohne zwischengeschaltete SMS. Dennoch besteht in Deutschland trotz zahlreicher Ankündigungen nach wie vor nur vereinzelt Gelegenheit dazu. Und wo das so genannte Mobile beziehungsweise M-Payment angeboten wird, dort halten sich die Verbraucher noch zurück.
  • IN: Karnataka:.Bangaloreans can now get fruit, veg prices on mobile

    Are you tired of dealing with frequently fluctuating prices of vegetables, even at the Hopcoms (Horticultural Producers Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society) outlets in the city?

    Here’s a good news. The e-governance project of Hopcoms has designed a system to inform customers of the prices of vegetables and fruit on a day-to-day basis by SMS. The new system is set to be implemented by May.

    For starting up the process of implementing the SMS alerts of price lists, Hopcoms has sought technical assistance from the National Informatics Centre.

  • India: Innovation in SMS

    Deciding to offer a branded SMS app should be an easy choice for almost any company, big or small, regardless of the business they are in.

    The SMS format of communication seems so simple that one may wonder if it offers any scope for innovation.

    When I pose this as a question to John McDonough, CEO and Founder, Shorthand Mobile, US (www.shorthandmobile.in), his response is immediate. “There is plenty of room for innovation!” avers McDonough, during an early morning interaction with eWorld in Nageswara Rao park.

  • Kenya launches mobile phone application to fight counterfeit Medicines

    Kenya has begun piloting a system that will make it possible for consumers to use text messages to find out if a particular medicine was wholesome or counterfeit. Kenyan minister for Medical Services, Professor Anyang Nyong'o has said.

    The innovative system will prevent Kenyans from falling prey to fake medicines which have begun flooding markets in East Africa.

    Even though similar systems have been tried in Ghana and more recently in Nigeria, this is believed to be the first time the use of such an approach - known as the mPedigree platform has been endorsed at cabinet level in any country in the world.

  • mBusiness: Chance für Deutschland

    Die Mobilisierung von Geschäftsprozessen stößt gegenwärtig auf großes Interesse. Im 'Mobile B2B' könnte Deutschland sogar führender Standort werden.
  • Mobile 'Can Help Solve Africa's Problems'

    The ability of mobile technology to solve major social problems in Africa is unprecedented, says Communications Minister Dina Pule.

    "From health to education, mobile technology is changing the way all sectors of society do business," Pule said at the Second e-Skills Summit 2012 and Global ICT Forum on Human Capital Development in Cape Town this week.

    Pule said a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey indicated that South Africa and Kenya were leading in mobile health deployments on the continent.

  • Österreich: A1 SIGNATUR von mobilkom austria nominiert für GSM Awards

    mobilkom austria mit A1 SIGNATUR nominiert für die GSM Association Awards 2005 in Cannes - europaweit erste gesetzesgültige Unterschrift mit Hilfe des Handys - damit eines der international führenden mobilen Produkte

    Die A1 SIGNATUR von mobilkom austria ist für die GSM Association Awards 2005 nominiert. Das bereits mit dem österreichischen Staatspreis für Multimedia & eBusiness (Kategorie e-Organisation und Web-Services) ausgezeichnete E-Government-Produkt findet damit auch internationale Anerkennung.

  • Schwellenländer: Shoppen per Textnachricht

    E-Commerce-Start-ups versuchen sich in Schwellenländern an neuartigen Formen des elektronischen Einkaufs.

    In den meisten Regionen der Welt beginnt das Shopping im Netz mit dem Aufruf des gewünschten Online-Ladens in einem Internet-Browser oder dem Eintippen des Namens ersehnter Produkte in eine Suchmaschine. Menschen aus Ländern, in denen Internet-PCs eine Seltenheit sind, müssen dementsprechend draußen bleiben. Das Start-up Slimtrader aus dem amerikanischen Seattle will nun auch diese Märkte mit digitalen Einkaufsmöglichkeiten beglücken: mit Online-Shopping per SMS.

  • UAE: Abu Dhabi: Mobile phones poised to become multifunctional

    Mobile phones may soon be able to perform a myriad of functions, replacing even credit cards, according to delegates at the inaugural NFC Academy Conference in Abu Dhabi on Monday.

    Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range, high-frequency wireless communication technology that enables the exchange of data between devices.

  • UAE: Most people willing to try out mobile internet transactions

    The vast majority of respondents to a survey feel comfortable about making payments through the mobile, said a Dubai e-Government study released on Saturday.

    While almost half have access to mobile internet technology, less than a third actually use it, as per the Mobile Portal online Survey.

    The survey aimed to estimate the ability and willingness of people to use mobile internet in order to allow users to access information and carry out transactions instantly via handheld wireless devices.

  • UK: A growing role for mobile ICT

    Mobile ICT is an area that is going to become increasingly important in the coming months and years.

    Analysts IDC (www.idc.com) reckon that before this year is out, two out of three employees in Europe will be engaged in mobile working in one form or another.

  • UK: M-commerce applications will expose local authorities to hack attacks

    Transaction-based mobile applications are the next logical step for local councils as they move even further into e-government. Local authorities which are considering enabling transactions via mobile phones need to learn the lessons of the commercial sector if they are to avoid becoming victim to hack attacks. They must adopt the practices used by banks and e-commerce websites to thwart m-commerce hack attacks.

    Local authorities are migrating their services online as part of a national strategy to provide an ‘e-government’ touchpoint for constituents, with many providing mobile internet services through WAP portals. Transactional mobile applications are seen as the next step, providing another avenue for constituents to monitor and settle council payments. Local authorities looking to deploy these payment services need first to put in place the type of security procedures adopted by the commercial sector.

  • USA: Eye on Mobile: Wells Rolls out Alerts; Arkansas First in M-Payments

    News about the latest developments in the hot mobile-payments sector is coming from some familiar sources, such as Wells Fargo & Co. and Visa Inc., and some unlikely ones, such as the state of Arkansas. Wells Fargo is rolling out Visa’s text-message and e-mail alert service that lets credit card holders quickly spot suspicious transactions, while Arkansas is claiming that it’s the first state to offer a mobile option for paying for certain government services.

  • USA: Wireless wallets come closer to reality

    Imagine being able to pay for a song on the jukebox, buy a bag of groceries or gain admission to a sports arena by simply waving your phone by a machine.

    With consumers in Asia and Europe already using their mobile phones to pay for soda and parking fees, the long-discussed concept of the wireless wallet could be slowly creeping closer to reality in the U.S.

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