Recent article in The Economist features Robert Jensen, a development economist at Harvard University, explaining how mobiles helped the fishermen in Kerala, a region in the south of India, increase incomes and pay for the phones.
Microsoft: Forget Multi-Touch, We got “Shift”
Microsoft is planning to butt heads with Apple’s multi-touch interface with their new “Shift” interface. At CHI 2007 (Computer Human Interface Conference), Microsoft’s paper, “Shift: A Technique for Operating Pen-Based Interfaces Using Touch,” won the Best Paper award. The paper describes the new Shift input method as making it “possible to use a pointer on…
20% of Population uses Mobile Web
Chances are, if you are reading this on your phone, you are likely to be a younger male than an older female. Even with the horribly inefficient state of the mobile web, we can’t deny that it is a new force to be reckoned with. A new report from research firms Telephia and Comscore pegs…
52 million machines will be connected to European mobile networks by 2011
The new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, predicts that the number of machines connected to mobile networks in Europe will grow by 43.7% annually to reach 52 millions by 2011. At the end of the last year there were about 8.5 million active cellular and satellite wireless M2M connections in the EU…
UK Students: Mobile Web SUCKS!
InfoGin has turned up a not-so-unexpected result from their most recent survey. Out of the 1,000 students polled in the survey, fully 2/3 said that they had given up on using the mobile web. The reason? Poor user experience. Even users with 3G access to the mobile internet were put off by the horribly inefficient…
People are willing to buy a Google or Yahoo mobile phone
Even though neither Google nor Yahoo have confirmed that they are planning to enter the handset market, research firms like Equs are making reports, polling people whether or not they will be interested to buy a phone made by one of two search giants. The results of the poll are staggering, with 55% of U.S.…
Mobile video set for growth; 46 million subscribers by 2010
Mobile video is set for boom and the revenues from mobile video services jumped 317% to almost $200 million worldwide in 2006, with that number expected to triple in 2007. According to market research firm Infonetics Research there will be more than 46 million mobile video users by 2010 globally. Thanks to the low costs…
Mobile gaming losing ground to Mobile TV and Music
We all love playing games on our cell phones. Remember when Snake first hit the scene? Mobile gaming has come a long way since then, but Screen Digest analysts are saying that growth in the mobile gaming market is slowing down – almost to a stall. Japan and Korea have been driving the growth of…
New, Cheaper, Longer-Lasting Batteries on the way
The US Department of Energy has made a breakthrough in battery technology at their Argonne National Laboratory. Lithium-ion batteries have recently made news for their lack of stability and capacity, but this new breakthrough promises more stable, longer-lasting, and cheaper batteries. A two-component, Manganese-based design helps to increase capacity to 250 mAh/g – doubling current…
Global business mobility survey
Recent global survey on business mobility conducted by Nokia and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and in cooperation with the CIO Forum, suggests that competition is pushing businesses towards greater mobility, and companies plan to adopt mobile applications for core business activities. Nokia and EIU polled more than 500 global executives across a range of…