Interesting applications of phone technology here; see also this article on the iTunes/Starbucks integration in today’s New York Times, which touches on similar issues but shows that American companies haven’t yet managed to pull it off successfully:
Mr. Entner said the sticking point on the growth of the phone as a full-service payment device had less to do with technology, which is adequate, and more to do with business questions. He said that all the potential participants — phone carriers, retailers, credit card companies, music labels — wanted a cut of the action, and it was not clear how the money for over-the-air payments would be divided.
User account breaches are inevitable. We should take that in to account when designing our applications.
Amen.
The initial creation of another language-specific Django user group; if you’re a Catalan speaker, or live in Catalonia, go join up :)
I’ve run up against this a couple times now, without much luck from some of the suggestions. Fairly annoying because iTunes doesn’t have this issue, and so far the only way I’ve been able to clear it is with a full wipe and re-sync of the iPod.