SMART PHONE PEOPLES NEWS, APPLE iPHONE5 & SNAPPER SMART PHONE BANKING, NEW ZEALAND INNOVATION

Smart Phone:

Apple Phone driven stock: It’s the week were the launch of Apple’s iPhone5 Apple stock sent Apple stock soaring to $700. The US is caught up in iPhone mania.

Smart phone banking using a system dubbed Snapper in NZ is viewed as a world first. Close Up did a very cool spotlight show on how virtual wallets (via smart phone spend) are upping retails sales and building busy businesses. Totally loved the story.

China: Read up on how Smartphones ‘free’ China migrants.

Phone addiction & crime: 1 in 3 crimes and muggings in the USA occur over smart phones.

Where phones are a GPS, connection to family, a diary, a wallet, a juke box, a photo collection and much more – shares in phones companies and any products that go with smart phones are always going to be on the move.

To read the smart phone banking story, geek out at the Halle Berry phone click, left.

Who wins? Banks – big time.

~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 19.9.12~