Banking: The next Microsoft frontier
eWeek | at | by Mike
It's been assumed that Microsoft's devotion to "wireless industry standards" makes its White Paper on Mobile Web Services a good thing. I'll bet the Trojans felt the same warm, comfortable glow about the Greeks and their Trojan Standard horse.
It's far, far too early to speculate on all the places where Microsoft is going with its obsession on intellectual property protection, or what it honestly expects "location based" services to comprise over the next decade - but the two subjects come together neatly in the Vodafone/Microsoft white paper - as a currency replacement idea.