One of Intel’s anthropologists, Genevieve Bell, gave the keynote speech at the Australasian Computer Science Conference last year. After the conference, she was asked if it would be fair to characterize her job as reminding American technology experts that all Internet users aren’t Americans. Her frank reply:
“[T]hat’s certainly one way of thinking about […]

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India’s incumbent telecommunications company BSNL has just announced plans to deploy a mobile WiMax broadband network covering a region with a population of over 200 million people. Mobile WiMax (a.k.a. IEEE 802.16e-2005) is a technology for delivering very fast wireless data communications over long distances. Download speeds on BSNL’s network are expected to […]

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The Philippines’ broadband Internet penetration may be low by Asian standards (less than 20%), so one would not expect “online” shopping to be taking off.
But almost 50% of Filipinos have mobiles phones, and the country is sometimes called the “txting capital of the world.” Thus it shouldn’t be a surprise that fast-fingered Filipinos […]

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The new Gmail mobile java application is an impressive little application that you can download from http://gmail.com/app to your mobile phone. It’s long been a shame that more companies didn’t develop java applications for mobile phones, but Google’s entry into the area brings real promise.
The Gmail mobile application supports over a hundred popular phone […]

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Some of the things Japanese can do with their mobile phones:
watch live TV channels for free, and digitally record those channels, up to 30 minutes
remotely program their DVRs
read bar codes on movie and concert posters and purchase tickets
buy train tickets and other items from vending machines without using cash
photograph and sell items (a la craigslist) […]

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