Too much great content to read at 802.11b Networking News today. I can't even link to it all right now, so check it out for yourself.

Study: Mobile Payments Set to Soar. "The study predicts that 118 million Western European and 145 users in the Asia-Pacific region will purchase low-cost mobile premium content by 2005. That dwarfs the report's estimate of 22 million such users in North America. The largest portion of those mobile payments will be for content-related services that cost less than $10 each, which are called micropayments, such as ring-tones for phones or other premium content, the report says. Wireless operators are better suited for such payments than banks and other financial institutions." [at allNetDevices Wireless News]

The sad thing is that all of that content still has to be organized, and I'll bet there isn't a single company working on this that has a librarian on the job.

I have to leave soon because I'm going out of town overnight, so I'm just going to post links to some stuff.  Sorry I don't have time to comment on them right now.  First up:

You Can Surf, but You Can't Hide. "Software can already tell your friends when you log on or off. Now, "presence awareness" capabilities are being designed into other devices. Is this technology helpful or creepy?" [at NY Times]

Here's one perspective of The Lowdown on mLife. I can't decide if I should be glad that AT&T is trying or if I should be disheartened that they're running such a poor marketing campaign. I got this link via Alan Reiter's post AT&T's mLife: Yawn, which pretty much mirrors my thoughts.