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31 Oct 09

The boom in smart-phones: Cleverly simple | The Economist

  • The market for smart-phones is expected to grow so quickly in part because they are changing. Expensive pocket computers such as the iPhone and BlackBerry, which let users watch videos and download whatever applications they want, are giving way to new models that come with popular services built in, but are less versatile or run on open-source operating systems, and are often cheaper. All this reflects a broader trend in the industry, where value is migrating from firms that run networks and make hardware to those that make software and offer service
  • New handsets from Motorola, an industry veteran, and INQ, a rising star, illustrate these changes. They both feature built-in support for online services, including popular social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. On the iPhone, in contrast, the necessary software has to be downloaded and installed. What is more, both phones can automatically add contacts from such sites to their address books.
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12 Oct 09

Innovation: The psychology of Google Wave - tech - 09 October 2009 - New Scientist

  • "We need to ask what opportunity Wave allows people to express themselves and to understand what other people mean when they contribute a message to a conversation,"
  • The creators of Wave pitch it as "what email would look like if it were invented today"
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10 Jul 09

Google’s Operating System to Challenge Microsoft - NYTimes.com

  • “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the Web in a few seconds,”
  • The plan is part of Google’s bet that a huge shift in computing is under way. In Google’s view, Web connections will become so fast and browsers so powerful that most of the programs that currently run on PCs will be replaced by online applications. That would eliminate the need to install, upgrade and back up software.
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01 Jul 09

WGSDIA – Lobby For Cheaper SMS Charges « Many Possibilities

  • Why, oh why, is it that Google, so unafraid to tackle telco and broadcast market behemoths in the United States, behaves like a timid NGO in Africa?
  • Although this post has been in the queue for a while, the timing now could not be better as two days ago Google launched innovative new SMS-based services in Uganda in partnership with the Grameen Foundation and MTN.  This provoked a response from Katrin Verclas ( @mobileactive) in which she queried the apparently high costs of the premium SMS charges being levied.  This was riposted by Erik Hersman ( @whiteafrican) who rephrased Katrin’s post as the question “If you provide services to the poor, should you make a profit?”.
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29 Jun 09

New SMS Services in Uganda from Grameen, Google & MTN | WhiteAfrican

    • Farmer’s Friend: a searchable database with both agricultural advice and targeted weather forecasts
    • Health Tips: provides sexual and reproductive health information
    • Clinic Finder: helps locate nearby health clinics and their services
    • Google Trader: matches buyers and sellers of agricultural produce and commodities as well as other products. Local buyers and sellers, such as small-holder farmers, are able to broaden their trading networks and reduce their transaction costs. (known locally as “Akatale SMS”)
  • I’m actually quite impressed with this initiative, as it fits in perfectly with Grameen’s mission: providing opportunity through the most basic of mobile phones. All of these services work on SMS-only phones, so anyone with a single bar of coverage and a phone has access to a lot of knowledge in their hands.
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18 Jun 09

Jemima Kiss talks to Google co-founder Sergey Brin | Technology | The Guardian

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  • Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, thinks size should help. "It's important for people to realise that you should benefit from the scale - if you're not benefiting then you're doing something wrong, and might as well break up into lots of little things. Instead of having our employees in large buildings, we could have several thousand houses each with a garage - there's nothing stopping us from doing that. But the fact is that as we scale, we should be able to take advantage of that. Look at how many colleagues can you talk about a specific issue with, and how can you take advantage of a piece of infrastructure that the company already has."
  • Tapping several sweet spots in web development, Wave aggregates real-time Twitter-esque instant messaging with email, wiki-based collaboration features and social networking.
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26 Mar 09

Read me first: Google's surveillance is taking us further down the road to hell | Technology | The Guardian

  • recently took another step along the path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising", and which everyone else calls "behavioural targeting".
  • path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising",
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24 Mar 09

When 'Mad Men' Meets Augmented Reality | Open The Future | Fast Company

  • Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space “blended reality.” Apps in development for the iPhone and Google’s Android platform are early indicators that a seamless blending of atoms and bits may soon be available to us.
  • The future is made up of unintended consequences, and this could be a big one. Blended-reality technology is the ultimate expression of the mobile Internet wave. But it looks like the flip side of "show me everything I want to know about the world" is "don't show me anything I don't want to know."
16 Mar 09

The Sun Magazine | Computing The Cost

  • There was a fascinating study done in 2008 by Gary Small, who heads the UCLA Memory and Aging Research Center and recently published a book called iBrain. He and two of his colleagues scanned the brains of two dozen people as they searched the Internet: half the subjects lacked online experience, and the other half were experienced Web users. The researchers found very different patterns of brain activity between the two groups. The subjects with little experience on the Internet showed activity in the language, memory, and visual centers of the brain, which is typical of people who are reading. The experienced Web surfers, on the other hand, had more activity in the decision-making areas at the front of the brain. Interestingly, after five consecutive days of Web surfing, the brain activity of the “inexperienced” group began to match the activity of the experienced Web users. That indicates that the brain adapts very quickly to Net use, just as it does to other repeated stimuli.
  • Now, there’s good news and bad news here. The good news is that, if you’re older, using the Net may help keep you mentally sharp. It “exercises” the brain in the way that, as Dr. Small observed, solving crossword puzzles does. On the other hand, neurology experiments demonstrate that decision-making consumes a lot of your mental resources, leaving less available for other modes of thinking. That may be why it’s so hard to read deeply when we’re online — our brains literally become overloaded. Imagine trying to read a book while simultaneously working on a crossword puzzle. That’s the intellectual environment of the Web.
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05 Mar 09

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