22/4  World tour of mobile innovations by David "DC" Collier and Matthew Bellows

Category: Games    By editor at 15:49
Your Cell Is A Slacker: Mobile Phones Are More Fun Outside The U.S.
In the unconventional category was a service the two cited called LISMO, which allows Japanese users with GPS-enabled cell phones to find out which songs are the most commonly downloaded ones on their home street or in the nearby area.

[...] And not everything on Bellows and Collier's world tour was a strange sideshow. They spent one of the longest chunks of their tour discussing the increasing viability of using cell phones to buy stuff. This application, they said, is booming in Japan. They described an Amazon.com-like cell-phone service called GirlsWalker that boasts 9 million subscribers.




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