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Digital Vision Program » Ken Banks

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:37:09 -0000

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kiwanja.net :: Where technology meets anthropology, conservation and development

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:04:37 -0000

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PC World - Business Center: Anthropology's Technology-driven Renaissance

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:04:08 -0000

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Others include mobile phones with multiple phone books, which allow more than one person to share a single phone, a practice largely unheard of in many developed markets.

Mobile phones with flashlights are just one example of a product that can emerge from this brand of user-centric design. Others include mobile phones with multiple phone books, which allow more than one person to share a single phone, a practice largely unheard of in many developed markets.

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Second Life for mobile phones hits beta - MMORPG News - QJ.NET

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:37:04 -0000

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What's the next big thing for the wireless industry? - San Jose Mercury News

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:23:16 -0000

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The Japanese - twitter romance: Japan to lead mobile twitter

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:58:05 -0000

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Web 2.0 Expo Reveals: Mobile Is The New Desktop, Social Nets The New Media Companies - Wolfe's Den Blog - InformationWeek

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:19:41 -0000

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Wolfe's three laws of the brave new Web 2.0 world are: Mobile is the new desktop, the home page is dead, and social networks like Facebook and

MySpace

presage the media company of the future.

No one, and I can't stress this enough, gives a shit about your brand. They care about what user experience you deliver to them. This obtains whether you're in the physical world selling a product, or online serving up content.

The new go-to destination of users won't be home pages but instead will be Web apps. That is, users will access content -- news, blogs, video -- and interact with your (their) communities via apps, hopefully apps that you develop and sell ads around.

One pundit at Web 2.0, Brian Fling, put it more succinctly. He sees the iPhone as a new medium in and of itself, as significant as radio, television, and the Internet itself have been.

When you think about it, the Smartphone is the first device that fulfills McLuhan's prediction that electronics will become an extension of the human nervous system.

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InternetNews Realtime IT News - Google Display Ads in Your Pocket

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:41:30 -0000

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Google has already been selling mobile text ads through its cost-per-click AdSense program, which it is now expanding to offer contextually targeted graphical banners, formatted to fit within the constraints of the mobile browser.

Nevertheless, Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone has shown that with a decent screen size and intuitive navigation, U.S. consumers will use their phones for activities other than talk and text messaging. Google is hoping that efforts such as its own Android initiative will lead to a new generation of handheld devices that help the mobile Web live up to its promise.

JupiterResearch analyst Neal Strother concurs with Google's claim that mobile display ads have a higher clickthrough rate than Web display ads. A clickthrough rate of 5 percent to 6 percent for mobile ads is common, Strother said, whereas a 3 percent clickthough rate for online display ads is very high.

Part of that success for mobile ads could relate to the novelty of the format, Strother suggested. As people grow more accustomed to seeing ads on mobile Web pages, clickthroughs will decline, the argument goes.

Over the past year, Jupiter estimates that fewer than one-fifth of all companies created any type of mobile advertising. The firm projects that in the next year, 34 percent will be advertising on mobile devices, but of those, more will engage in some kind of texting campaign than search or display advertising.

While "some of the bigger brands have made some serious commitments to mobile," Strather said that the tendency among advertisers is to make mobile a microcosm of an aggregate digital budget, or to treat mobile advertising as an experimental expense.

"Very few companies on the advertising side have made mobile a standalone item on a line-item budget," Strother told InternetNews.com.

The company is trying to keep file sizes small, so that the ads do not unduly slow the load times of mobile Web pages, Agarwal said. Slow speeds have been a common complaint about the experience of browsing the Web on a mobile device.

Google also said it will only show one display ad per page.

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Cellphones - Third World and Developing Nations - Poverty - Technology - New York Times

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:58:36 -0000

Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?

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AT&T, Google and Verizon Talk Wireless Plans

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:19:38 -0000

The three big players in the 700MHz auction, AT&T and Verizon, which won big blocks of spectrum, and Google, which did not but will nevertheless maintain a strong influence on everything that will happen in the industry regarding the newly leased frequencies, have opened up about their wireless plans.

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AT&T Plans Fast 4G Wireless Rollout -- AT&T -- InformationWeek

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:30:48 -0000

AT&T's wireless operation plans to move its infrastructure to Long Term Evolution, a high-speed standard that many service providers are expected to adopt.

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De la Vega also hinted at the CTIA show in Las Vegas this week that AT&T may utilize the open source Android system promoted by Google. Other service providers and manufacturers, including T-Mobile, Sprint, and LG Electronics, have also expressed interest in Android.

De la Vega said AT&T believes it can use Android for data and content, which would make the operating system more attractive than just using it for searching on mobile phones.

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YouTube - androiddevelopers's Channel

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:07:57 -0000

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apophenia: how youth find privacy in interstitial spaces

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:14:17 -0000

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Cellswapper.com - Get out of your cell phone contract - mobile contract - wireless contract

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:20:14 -0000

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