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Technology news report finds that access to mobile phones has skyrocketed

Rebecca | March 27, 2013

The most recent statistics are showing that the devices are more common than toilets around the world.

The latest technology news through a recent UN report has shown that there is officially greater access to mobile phones around the world than there is to toilets.

The United Nations report has indicated that the penetration of these devices is greater than that of bathrooms.

According to the statistics within the UN report, there are approximately 6 billion people around the globe who currently have a mobile phone. At the same time, however, there are only 4.5 billion who have access to a traditional latrine or toilet. Though this may seem to be a rather amusing statistic, this technology news has revealed a shocking truth to some of the largest organizations in the world.

The technology news report has unearthed an issue that is not at all funny, though the data may seem to be.

As a result of this technology news, the UN and some of the largest names in the industry – which includes Bill Gates from Microsoft – are coming together to help to solve the “sanitation crisis” that is occurring in many regions around the globe.

This week, the deputy secretary general of the United Nations, Jan Eliasson made a call to action to the people and organizations of the world in order to make urgent changes to eliminate the lack of basic sanitation that is a daily reality for 2.5 billion people, as well as “to change a situation in which more people worldwide have mobile phones than toilets.”

Mr. Eliasson explained his determination to drive action that will lead to positive results based on this technology news. He has addressed his call to all actors, “government, civil society, business and international organizations,” to make a commitment to taking measurable action that would generate the necessary resources and implement them for a rapid boos to the “access to basic sanitation” that is available to people around the world, no matter where they may live.

The technology news was seen as a reality check that led directly to this call to action. According to the UN report, it would not establish any new funding mechanisms or structures. Instead, it would concentrate on creating action, one community at a time, at that level.

Mobile marketing and payments to merge through CheckAlt

Rebecca | March 25, 2013

The partnership that the company has made with Mobivity has allowed the two services to be combined.

Mobivity Holdings Corp – a mobile marketing technology provider – has entered into a new partnership along with CheckAlt in order to create a new smartphone friendly check acceptance app for local businesses.

The hope is to create a single solution that will combine these two powerful areas of smartphone use.

The two companies will be combining their strengths and the technology that they are already using in order to provide local merchants with a solution that could potentially make transactions much easier and convenient for them to accept.

This new app would bring together mobile marketing and smartphone payment solutions into one service.

It would combine the current smartphone app by the mobile marketing company with the eCheck technology from CheckAlt so that smartphone payments solutions could also be provided within it.

According to Dennis Becker, the president and CEO of Mobivity, “While Mobivity continues to build marketing relationships between mobile consumers and local merchants, our vision is to evolve that mobile marketing conversation to a payment transaction.”

The technology for check processing from CheckAlt brings together the company’s eCheck processing platform with remote deposit capture in orde to be able to manage digital transactions. That company will be combining its capabilities with the mobile marketing platform at Mobivity so that new products such as SMS text messaging payments and apps with new transaction options will become possible through the marketing relationships that have already been formed, said the two companies in this new partnership.

CEO and president of CheckAlt, Shai Stern, explained that when a consumer makes a payment to a merchant, it is essentially a combination of some type of loyalty or marketing relationship. Therefore, his company believes that by working with Mobivity to reach thousands of local businesses, it will assist in mobile marketing to millions of consumers across the country and generating a massive network that could be among the largest in the industry. This is could be possible due to the considerable market penetration that Mobivity has already been able to accomplish.