The trend in the Bay Area is to cultivate connections in the 20- 30 year old Millenials group.  I want to welcome anyone, any age, to come to our WiT Mixer on April 28.  All paths to a good career start somewhere. You can reboot your ICT carer with WiT, network with telecom employees, former executives of AT&T, and entrepreneurs.  Also, check out my other endeavor, http://www.globaleducationsymposium.com. ; I hope to encourage…

Steve Perlman says he can speed up wireless 1000 times faster than it is now.  How does he do it?

http://blog.eservglobal.com/2012/06/04/the-race-to-set-the-standard-for-mobile-couponing-and-payment/

Recently, Groupon has announced several aggressive new moves into the mobile payment space. Similarly, PayPal has struck an agreement with Ingenico, Verifone and Equinox to integrate its service into the vendors’ POS terminals for US retailers.…

Near field communication, or NFC, allows for simplified transactions, data exchange, and connections with a touch. It is anticipated to become a widely used system for making payments by smartphone in the United States. Many smartphones currently on the market already contain embedded NFC chips that can send encrypted data a short distance ("near field") to a reader located, for instance, next to a retail cash register. Shoppers who have their credit card information stored in their NFC…