Wednesday, July 30, 2003
AmphetaDesk 0.93.1: "Micropayments via SMS
I needed a map of Dublin recently, so I looked up Ireland On-Line's mapping, route planning, and aerial photography service. It's a really useful service - with maps provided by Mapflow, whose other customers include Vodafone (for location-based mobile services) and the European Space Agency.
So anyway, providing maps on the Internet obviously costs money, but people don't want the hassle of subscribing, so IOL have introduced an SMS-based micropayment solution. How does it work? Well, when I click to zoom in on Dublin, I see the following window pop up:"
Smart?
I needed a map of Dublin recently, so I looked up Ireland On-Line's mapping, route planning, and aerial photography service. It's a really useful service - with maps provided by Mapflow, whose other customers include Vodafone (for location-based mobile services) and the European Space Agency.
So anyway, providing maps on the Internet obviously costs money, but people don't want the hassle of subscribing, so IOL have introduced an SMS-based micropayment solution. How does it work? Well, when I click to zoom in on Dublin, I see the following window pop up:"
Smart?
# posted by Mark : 14:10
