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Went for Mobile Monday this week after reading that the topic was going to be Mobile Payments. Very interesting presentation by the CEO of mchek, a Bangalore based mobile payments company. Interesting how many different ways they have of being able to complete a payment on the mobile phone. Some of the challenges discussed were probably not very surprising considering the number of regulators they have to deal with. But I really liked some of the ideas they had pertaining to Bill payments, and how to make the solution a Card present

They won an award at the Mobile Congress in Barcelona earlier this month for how well made the payment process was. I learnt a lot from the session, and was glad that I made it for a Mobile Monday after such a long time.

The second presentation was from Make my Trip showing off their WAP site, and the apps they were developing to complement the site. Not as interesting, but probably more useful for me considering, I would up buying a ticket of their WAP site, when my internet was down at home. Cleartrip is my website of choice for travel stuff, mainly die to the clean layout  they have. But the experience on Make my trips WAP site was very good(I have a Nokia E61 so he full keyboard made entering in all the fields a breeze. I don’t know if it would have been as good if I had to use T9)

I really need to start attending these events a lot more regularly.

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