Tired words: Content
Where did this one come from?
Content – This word just seems insufficient and ambiguous (it can be a noun or adjective). It’s so clinical and sterile. Ok, so it’s in the same category as ‘media’, but ‘media’ is a word I happen to like, is attached to nice things,and is soft and round. Kontent is not really a Kingly word, isn’t a word that is used in any regular context outside of some industry-speak, and isn’t really something that lends itself to writing, such as these not so smooth phrases: ‘download content to phone’ (yes, quite happy) or ‘manage your contents’ (my bowels?) or ‘user generated content’ (sounds like a disease). I think it’s just our own laziness, to lump so much into this word.
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Wax on. Wax off.
Wax on. Wax off.
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Interesting
22/01/2007
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Infoworld reports: India nearly doubles mobile phone use in 2006
Sure makes me drool.
And whose devices do you think they are picking up the most, and with what functionalities? Nokia. Nokia Nseries, too. Quite interesting.
India added close to 74 million new mobile telephone subscribers last year, making it one of the most attractive markets for mobile telephone operators and wireless equipment vendors.
The number of wireless subscribers grew 97 percent from 75.94 million at the end of December 2005 to 149.5 million subscribers at the end of December last year, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in Delhi.