Infoworld reports on: Least-developed countries getting connected
Here’s a nice short summary of a recent report by the ITU on emerging market take-up of communication services. There are some interesting items, such as ...
Category: The Narrative
Social engineering via mobile phones
The mobile phone has become the most intimate (as in ‘of a very personal nature’) piece of electronics that you carry around all the time. People ar...
Infoworld reports: China hits 432 million mobile phone users
Woah! Thems a lot of apples. Chugging along to 3 BILLION users, when will it stop? Already almost everyone who can afford a phone has one. Soon everyone from se...
Tom Hume on: Off-hours mobile usage
Tom, below, makes an interesting observation that is complemented by another observation by Mark Curtis. Two points jump our to me:1) Do we have any flippinR...
Rotary phone with a SIM
Funny retro phone. Link [via Peter B]: Spark Fun Electronics. Description: This is the ever popular Portable Rotary Phone, now in Red! Phone comes fully assembl...
Sideloading should be made easier
I’ve been doing a bit of reading into audio streaming lately and someone mentioned a term that I had to look up just to make sure – Sideloading, or ...
Gary Oldman short-short shot with Nokia N93
This little clip from Gary had a few film critics I know at work to snicker unkindly. Well, pooh-pooh on them. Link: Gary Oldman Premieres on the Nokia Nseries ...
Some comments by Cringlely on communication network operators
File this one under ‘Interesting thoughts from interesting people’. In Bob Cringley’s columns in the past few months, he has been discussing i...
Mobile Opportunity on: Why are mobile application sales dropping?
Ok. So this might be old and beaten (see all the amazing discussion), but I just got back from holidays and I had to put it here. This is part of trend of repor...
Notes from an interview with Jack Scully, comments on Steve Jobs, product creation, and Apple’s 30th anniversary
As part of a series of interviews of Apple notables for the 30th anniversary of Apple, Jack Scully, the CEO who took over from Jobs, made some great comments ab...