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Mobiles leapfrog the fixed internet in Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Across the continent, and even in relatively developed South Africa, fixed broadband Internet is difficult to access, expensive, and unreliable.

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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Video goggles will unleash mobile video - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Once this is commonplace, mobile video and content will be unleashed. Permalink | View blog reactions | Comments (1) Categories : Technology trends Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook 1 Comments mobile video said: great blog, i also like mobile video!

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Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

in Australia: Showcasing the best | Main | Particls switches on the power of RSS » Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? Ross Dawson, May 28, 2007 3:17 PM US PT Om Malik has a very interesting article on how pre-paid mobile minutes are effectively becoming a currency across Africa.

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Is It a Virus or Nagware?

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This is a form of nagware and ransomware that can even infect your mobile phone and not leverage any vulnerabilities or even execute any local code. Unless you are tech-savvy enough to delete calendars and unsubscribe to internet calendars yourself, the perceived problem is that your expensive mobile phone got infected!

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. What is a certainty is that we will be using mobile social networks even more centrally to our lives than the role of Facebook and other browser-based social applications today.

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Technology ranging from mobile applications to online gaming will become an everyday part of our work lives. It is due to a phenomenon called Constant Partial Attention, or CPA, in which our attention is constantly divided between a massive array of channels now including mobile Internet, video screens on buses, and more.

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