Walt Mossberg’s GPhone positives & ngatives

Walt Mossberg on businessinsider.com look at the pros and cons on the Gphone.
“I have been testing the G1 extensively, in multiple cities and in multiple scenarios. In general, I like it and consider it a worthy competitor to the iPhone… But the two devices have different strengths and weaknesses, and are likely to attract different [...]

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70% of the world does not have a credit card (PayPal research 2009), which suggests there is a compelling case for alternative forms of online payment, such as debit and pre-paid cards.
 
For example, only 4% of the Philippine population has credit cards.
 
To partly address this, a new entrant into the epayments world PayEasy, an [...]

Indian e-payment market worth $150 Billion

Swati Prasad reports in BusinessWeek that India’s retail e-payment market is likely to grow by nearly 70% in the next two years.
The value of retail e-payments should reach between US$150 billion and US$180 billion by 2010, according to a report by Celent.

Nilaya Varma, PricewaterhouseCoopers, says, “Indians were circumspect about using e-payment as they were comfortable [...]

PayPal – UK Online spending to hit $40 Billion by 2011

PayPal’s UK Online Retail Report expects that online shopping with double to almost $40 (£22 STG) billion by the end of 2011.

Experian, who performed that research, believe that online shopping will be a key driver in getting UK retail out of the recession.
Looking at the numbers:
1. 137% growth in online spending
2. UK web [...]