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Applications now open for LIRNEasia Young Scholar Tutorials, hosted by NUS, Singapore. Click here for info on how to apply.
LIRNEasia CEO delivers lead talk at int’l ICTD workshop, New Delhi
Rohan Samarajiva, will deliver one of two invited lead talks at ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice and Policy, to be held in New Delhi, India, 11 – 12 March 2010. Titled, “How the developing world may participate in the global “Internet Economy”, his presentation examines the potential mobile telephony has in enabling [...]
31 percent of Internet use in the US occurs in front of a TV
The story is based on US data, but it is still grist for the mill as we think about how the mobile and Internet will change the mediasphere in emerging Asia.
We are so smitten with screens that we often can’t bear to choose one over another: 31 percent of Internet use occurs while we’re in [...]
Mobile 2.0: Beyond Voice? Draft program available
Preconference workshop at the 2009 conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) | 20-21 May 2009, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The draft program for this one-and-a-half day preconference is now available. Twenty five papers were selected through a peer-reviewed process; papers based on research in 15 countries in five continents in on various aspects of mobile usage [...]
Mobile internet usage on the rise
Mobile internet use is growing while the number of people going online via a PC is slowing, analyst firm Nielsen Online has found.
Some 7.3m people accessed the net via their mobile phones, during the second and third quarters of 2008.
This is an increase of 25% compared to a growth of just 3% for the PC-based [...]
‘The meek shall inherit the web’ – The Economist
Sep 4th 2008 | From The Economist print edition
Computing: In future, most new internet users will be in developing countries and will use mobile phones. Expect a wave of innovation
THE World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body that leads the development of technical standards for the web, usually concerns itself with nerdy matters such as [...]
Over 3.6% of US mobile users make purchases via cellphones – Nielsen Mobile
The New York Times documents a recent study conducted by Nielsen Mobile among 30, 000 wireless customers, that estimates over 3.6% of all mobile phone users in the United States have used their phones to pay for goods and services. This figure is expected to grow in the future, with nearly half of all users of text [...]
Mobile internet to grow in South Africa
Frost & Sullivan finds Africa’s demand for mobile internet access is growing quickly, with operators anticipating growth of between 40 per cent and 50 per cent between 2006 and 2009.
“The poor state of fixed line infrastructure is creating the potential for the African mobile internet market to boom,” states Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Spiwe Chireka. [...]
Realistic vision of mobile 2.0 at the BOP
A thoughtful contribution by someone who is developing a voice interface for the mobile internet.
The Mobile Web is NOT helping the Developing World… and what we can do about it. By Nathan Eagle | MobileActive.org
This is not to say that these billions of mobile phones do not have the potential to access content [...]
Introducing open source and Internet culture to the mobile networks through gPhone
For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together – New York Times
Google wants to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Internet, a small market today, but one that is expected to grow rapidly. It hopes to persuade wireless carriers and mobile phone makers to offer phones based on its software, according [...]
Unicode compliant browser in Sinhala launched
Pasted below is a communication from Harsha Purasinghe of MicroImage that may be of interest to readers of this website.
“We are pleased to inform you all that Dialog Telekom launched the Sinhala & Tamil Mobile Browser and their Content Portal “SINHALANTHAYA” during New Year week. The browser can be downloaded by visiting http://www.dialogwap.com using your [...]
Colloquium: Indonesia Sector Performance/Indicators study
As part of the Six Country Indicators Project, Divakar presents the interim findings from the Indonesia country study. The study assesses Indonesia’s telecom sector and regulatory performance. It employs the common methodology and list of indicators adopted for the Six Country study.
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