Mark Bridge writes:

As any Star Trek fan knows, Apple didn't invent the tablet computer. The crew of the Enterprise regularly used handheld devices that looked remarkably like an electronic clipboard... or an iPad. In fact, engineers in the 1960s were working on tablet devices as the original Star Trek series first aired.

Then there were the Microsoft Tablet PCs from around ten years ago. I bought one - an Acer TravelMate - as my main computer and loved it. I even loved the special pen that was needed to write on the screen.

James Rosewell writes:

For those that don't regularly watch the BBC News Channel at 5pm here's a rather hasty recording of an interview with our very own Mark Bridge concerning "Quick Tap"; a rather underwhelming new mobile payment product from Orange and Barclaycard.

Iain Graham, James Rosewell and Mark Bridge talk about the problems facing the introduction of mobile payment services - and Yossi Yarkoni of DigiMo introduces a new m-payment platform that requires no additional hardware at the Point of Sale.

Nomi-Call Limited, the company responsible for sales and distribution of Nomi Mobile SIM cards in the UK, has gone into administration.

The company's Facebook page currently shows a number of comments asking what's happened to the mobile network.

O2 has announced the financial services companies it'll be working with when it launches a 'mobile wallet' service later this year. It first confirmed its plans in February.

The mobile wallet will be launched under the O2 Money brand and will include m-commerce, airtime top ups, contactless NFC payments and peer-to-peer money transfers.