I see that technology is advancing now so that the mobile phone will in future also be your credit card.
I suppose we should drop the word phone as the mobile is now much more than that.
Apparently Barclaycard has teemed up with mobile network Everything Everywhere to form a partnership to bring the new system into operation.
Everything Everywhere includes Orange and T-Mobile networks.
Initially there will be a cap on transactions but this is likely to change fairly quickly.
So it is likely in the very near future we will only have one article to carry with us which will do everything.
Will it print cash? Doubt it but then who will need cash?
I've put a new article on the new blog John Beaumont-Online Business Thoughts so have a browse if you are interested.
Joke for today:- I rang up the phone company to report a nuisance caller. "Not you again" they said.
On this day:- 28th January
In 1807 London was the first city in the world to be lit by gaslamps
In 1547 King Henry VIII died.
In 1725 Peter the Great of Russia died.
In 1956 Elvis Presley made his first TV appearance.
John F.Beaumont
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Friday, 28 January 2011
Saturday, 8 January 2011
The Kegworth Air Disaster
It is 22 years ago today the a Boeing 737 crashed on the M1 motorway killing 44 people.
As I live quite close to Kegworth I'm surprised that more effort of remembrance isn't made.
It was very sad as it would appear human error helped cause the crash.
It was a very new plane. I think if memory serves me right it was only 2 weeks old.
What happened is that one of the engines caught fire on the way from London to Ireland and the pilot decided to divert to East Midlands Airport as that was fairly near and the company's main base.
The trouble was that in the confusion the wrong engine was shut down and the aircraft crashed on the motorway which is right next to East Midlands.
I understand that the airport fire brigade stopped the casualty list from being much higher by crashing through the perimeter fence to get to the site more quickly.
Fortunately there were no casualties on the motorway since I believe traffic had been stopped further back by the police.
On this day (8th January) the following also happened.
In 1642 Death of Galileo
In 1942 German troops began the retreat from Leningrad.
In 1935 Elvis Presley was born
John F.Beaumont
As I live quite close to Kegworth I'm surprised that more effort of remembrance isn't made.
It was very sad as it would appear human error helped cause the crash.
It was a very new plane. I think if memory serves me right it was only 2 weeks old.
What happened is that one of the engines caught fire on the way from London to Ireland and the pilot decided to divert to East Midlands Airport as that was fairly near and the company's main base.
The trouble was that in the confusion the wrong engine was shut down and the aircraft crashed on the motorway which is right next to East Midlands.
I understand that the airport fire brigade stopped the casualty list from being much higher by crashing through the perimeter fence to get to the site more quickly.
Fortunately there were no casualties on the motorway since I believe traffic had been stopped further back by the police.
On this day (8th January) the following also happened.
In 1642 Death of Galileo
In 1942 German troops began the retreat from Leningrad.
In 1935 Elvis Presley was born
John F.Beaumont
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