Ide yang sangat brillian menurut saya, suatu terobosan yang bisa mengambil alih peran EDC di merchant-merchant yang menerima pembayaran via credit card. Squareup (http://www.squareup.com) membuat semua dongle untuk scan kartu kredit yang tinggal plug in di handset .. trataaa.. si handset langsung berubah menjadi sebuah EDC untuk transaksi kartu kredit.

Yang perlu dilakukan adalah anda tinggal mendaftarkan diri di squareup, bawa kartu kredit dan handphone anda ke merchant yang mempunyai dongglenya (saya tidak tahu apakah worthed anda memiliki dongle sendiri atau tidak), colokkan donglenya kemudian gesek kartu kredit anda ke situ. Selanjutnya, melalui handphone anda akan menerima receipt nya dan membawa kopi nikmat kesayangan.

Beberapa sumber mengatakan saat ini baru tersedia untuk IPhone, belum untuk tipe handset yang lainnya. Mudah2an segera tersedia di banyak tipe handset, terutama Blackberry (handset saya cuma ini soalnya).

Biasanya untuk mendapatkan EDC, kita harus deal dengan masing-masing bank penyedia layanan, menurut sumbernya semua bank account bisa dan charge yang diberikan pun hanya 2,9% saja. Pemakai juga bisa memilih untuk menyumbangkan sebagian kecil dari transaksinya ke sebuah yayasan amal.

Bagaimana dengan securitynya? saya belum tahu, saat ini saya sedang browse untuk mengetahui lebih detail tentang produk ini. Jadi, business apa yang bisa kita buat dengan adanya wacana ini?!!

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Sumber: https://squareup.com/

An amazing graphical info about Google vs Apple. I got it from here.

Christmas Tree?? I know it’s far away after Christmast. Today I met one of my best friend, she is a mother of 2 beautiful kids. Since we haven’t met for a long time, it took almost 3 hours for pointless talking.

One useless point we talked about is about buying a Christmas tree. Although it is 2 months after Christmas, but last Christmas was our first contact via facebook after years separated, so it’s quite special for us J

She told me that she bought a 2,5 meters Christmas Tree for about Rp 1.000.000,-. Of course I didn’t believe it. I bought almost Rp. 2.000.000,- for 1 meters glowing white Christmas Tree (same tree as she bought). Then how could she bought twice bigger and taller with half price than mine.

The tip is: always buy the Christmas Tree on January end. Those stores need to sell fast in any price because they have to prepare for Valentine which is coming soon in February. So for next Christmas you will already have a very big, tall and beautiful (also looks expensive) tree at your warm home.

Nice tips. I will remember it forever. I can’t wait next January to come.

Dapat email bad news nih soal Nav4All. Walaupun saya belum memakainya secara maksimal karena segala keterbatasannya, tapi saya berharap masih ada pengembangan lebih jauh. Ternyata Nav4All malah tidak dilanjutkan karena masalah license source petanya.

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28-01-2010 16:30 GMT+1

Subject: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

Letter to 27,625,631 Nav4All navigation customers

Dear Customers,

It is with the deepest regret that we hereby notify you that the
global navigation of Nav4All and the Tracking & Tracing will go
offline in 3 days. The reason for the same is that the data licence
agreement with Navteq (a 100% Nokia subsidiary) was not extended, in
a totally unexpected manner. It is not possible to implement data
from another supplier in our Nav4All systems within the short term.
The Nav4All navigation system was developed for Navteq data. Nav4All
has therefore been constrained to stop.

We greatly regret the fact that we have to suspend the operation of
our service. With your help, we have developed Nav4All into a global
product with 27.5 million users in 56 languages, in 5 years. This has
made Nav4All the largest navigation supplier. This large number of
users also has to do with the fact that Nav4All works on hundreds of
different mobile telephones of many makes such as Blackberry, Sony
Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Android, HTC, Nokia, LG, Iphone, Ipod
etc.

After 5 years of testing and market development, we witnessed rapid -
in fact, exponential – growth during the last two years. That growth
was reported in the licence reports to Navteq. In mid-December 2009,
the global coverage was extended to include the Philippines, Morocco
and Kenya.

Please contact the Nav4All support desk in case you have any
questions: www.nav4all.com/support. If there is any further
information from Nav4All concerning the subject of this letter, the
same will be published on our website: www.nav4all.com. For reasons
of privacy, Nav4All does not have the email addresses of all its
customers, and we therefore request you to forward this email to the
maximum extent possible, in order to ensure that everyone is
informed.

Kind Regards,

Hennie J.M. Groot Koerkamp (CEO)

Nav4All BV

Keizersgracht 62-64

1015 CS Amsterdam NL

The text of this e-mail will be available on our website as soon as
possible in the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Indonesian.

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