More ways that mobile can help in Haiti: credit top ups are a form of contact and currency

While larger institutions like Ericsson and the Mobile Giving Foundation are doing their thing in Haiti, there’s still room for other companies to help however they can. A great example can be found in Ezetop, and Irish company that is helping Haitian expats to send mobile credit to loved ones in the disaster zone.

UK charities combine to offer free £1 voucher through Velti

Rating: All kids want for Xmas is mobile top-up and condoms
Mobile phone credit and condoms are all you need to have fun as a teenager. That’s the conclusion reached by two charities working in the UK – Brook (sex advice) and Drinkaware (alcohol advice). So they’re giving out £1 free top-ups through Velti.
The top-ups have [...]

O2 to push its reward site to more brands

Rating: Oh, what a Top-up Surprise

Proud of its success with a campaign for movie rental service, Blockbuster, O2 has decided to poach four new sales staff from the likes of Yahoo! and Orange.

It’s hardly a surprise that O2 Media – the operator’s advertising arm – stole some-one from Orange given the close similarity between Top-Up [...]

INSIDE Debuts MicroPass Contactless Stickers

First to Support Secure Payments, Samples Now Available
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, October 7, 2008 – INSIDE Contactless, a leading provider of advanced, open-standard contactless chip technologies, today announced that samples of the first MicroPass® contactless prelam for use in mobile handset stickers for secure payments are now available for card manufacturers.  INSIDE’s new sticker technology combines the [...]

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