textually.org: All About Texting, SMS, and MMS

"The developed nations continue to debate the best way of introducing mobile payments. In Africa, and in Kenya specifically, the use of mobile money is already well established. In fact it is doing so well that the World Bank has issued a warning about the way payments systems are developing and the threat of monopoly."

This sentence introduces a set of journalistic reports collectively entitled "Is African Money Becoming Too Successful?", published on the Mobile Payments section of the weblog textually.org.  This online resource provides readers with access to collected publications on the topic of cell phones and mobile content, focusing on text messaging and cell phone usage around the world, tracking the latest news and social impact of these new technologies.  Mobile Payments, focusing on development and usage of mobile economy technologies, is one of several categories of mobile discussion platforms that are collected and summarised within the textually.org archives.

Organised chronologically, the articles represented in the pages of textually.org come from a diverse range of sources, including mainstream and independent news services, technology and economic publications, and corporate press releases.  The articles' discussion topics are not limited to development and use of mobile technologies in developing countries, however given the rapid rate of increase of mobile payments in such areas over uptake in developed countries, there are many articles included within the Mobile Payments category focusing on regional innovations and statistics of money transfer via Short Message Service (SMS) capabilities on mobile devices.

Some recent publications highlighted within this weblog include "Mobile Money Transfers Reach 16 Percent of Sub-Saharan African Population", "Mobile Messaging Service Kakao Talk Introduces Virtual Currency in Korea", "The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money", "Mobile Phones Will Not Save the Poorest of the Poor", and "Obama Campaign Uses SMS to Raise Funds".  Links to archives are provided for users searching specific categories, as well as links to other weblogs in the textually.org network: ringtonia.com, picturephoning.com, and WatchingTVOnline.