Matt’s Cuppa

• A new way to pay: Noca’s credit card alternative | Webware - CNET - Annotated

  Something to watch… closely

  tags: credit, paypal, merchant-account, online-payment

  • Noca, CEO PJ Gupta told me, does not enable credit of any sort. Rather, it’s a financial interchange platform that lets consumers pay for goods through direct checking account withdrawals.
  • Gupta told me he was formerly in charge of Visa’s network architecture, and that Noca is built in a more efficient way. “There’s no reason to use IBM servers today,” as the credit card processing companies do. “There are two to three order of magnitude of inefficiencies there.”
    • It’s funny how often we do things this way just because that’s the way we always have. - post by telecommatt

• Cell Phones: Google Sync Keeps Contacts and Calendars in Sync on Your Mobile Phone

  tags: no_tag

  • Google has just release a new tool called Google Sync, a service that syncs your Google Contacts and Calendar wirelessly to your iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian, or Windows Mobile phone.

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