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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

While many Indians are unbanked, mobile phone adoption is on the rise. India has about 200 million mobile subscribers and is adding 5 million new users monthly. What are mobile payments? Mobile payment technology removes the need for direct access to a bank or credit union.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. Green: low-energy consuming phones and products for using the mobile as an energy monitoring device in the house. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Technologies That Will Have the Biggest Impact On Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

This means that mobile broadband is faster than most wired broadband in the world. Thanks to Tommy Gallagher, Top Mobile Banks! #4 This means that mobile broadband is faster than most wired broadband in the United States. Whether learning the basics of CSS and HTML for displaying web pages or getting into Python and Java.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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Wireless and the lowest common denominator

BeyondVC

There is a ton of hype on the wireless front especially with the announcement of Android, the Google operating system for mobile phones. I too am quite excited about the prospects of having applications that are written once on the Google OS that can be ported to any other phone on any other network that also supports the Google OS.

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