Posts Tagged ‘mobility’

via the New York Times
By JEREMY KAHN
Published: December 8, 2008

David Guttenfelder/Associated Press
A soldier in Mumbai during the siege of the Taj Mahal hotel last month. The attackers studied satellite images of the city online.

MUMBAI, India — The terrorists who struck this city last month stunned authorities not only with their use of [...]

Via Mashable
Cheng Wu is the co-founder and chairman of Azuki Systems.
As mobile social networks gain popularity, many are wondering how to ride the wave of this phenomenon. Leveraging the 3.3 billion potential mobile screens and the viral capabilities of social media, new forms of collaboration and media sharing will emerge and drive new sources of [...]

Via Metro
Tech Now by Paul Brent
November 06, 2008 03:46

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Via Mobile Crunch
by Greg Kumparak on November 3, 2008

As the entry fee for smartphones drops lower and lower, the wallet friendly price point found with most feature phones (or, as some might say, “dumbphones”) is beginning to lose its luster. In a day when obtaining a smartphone requires little more than 50 bucks [...]

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November 1, 2008 - 9:52 am PDT - by Paul Glazowski

I don’t know whether to think recent calculations for mobile video consumption (or lack thereof) via the four top wireless carriers in America are just a little bit Halloween spooky, a big point of concern, or perhaps a good omen.
It’s [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Mark Hendrickson on October 16, 2008

Graspr, the instructional video syndication network run by an ex-Yahoo exec, has released an advanced video player with a featured called the “gCard” that carries the identity of a video creator wherever his or her video gets embedded across the net.
If you create an instructional video and [...]

Via ARS Technica
By David Chartier | Published: October 07, 2008 - 10:25PM CT

Social networking made the leap from desktops to mobile phones a long time ago, and a new report suggests that MySpace and Facebook still dominate even on the small screen. Too bad the two market leaders may be doing more harm than good to mobile [...]

Via The New York Times
By ALEX MINDLIN
Published: September 28, 2008
In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average subscriber’s volume of text messages has shot upward by 64 percent, while the average number of calls has [...]

Via CBC

Globalive is aiming for 1.5 million subscribers in its first three years.Globalive is aiming for 1.5 million subscribers in its first three years. (Manu Fernandez/Associated Press)
More cellphone competition is on the way as Globalive Communications Inc. is aiming to have Canada’s fourth national wireless service up and running in the second half of 2009.
The [...]