We don’t listen to each other’s voicemails anymore. Someone will call, leave a message, we’ll see she left a message, but rather than listen to it, we’ll just call the person back and ask that she repeat everything she probably just said on that message.
(Wall Street Journal) — Mobile-phone companies are experimenting with a new way to steal their rivals’ customers: the mobile insult to the device in hand. Their new tactic involves mobile ads that appear when a person using a competitor’s phone or network launches an application or browses the Web on their phone. The basic message: […]
(New York Times) — The prison protest has entered the wireless age. Inmates in at least seven Georgia prisons have used contraband cellphones to coordinate a nonviolent strike this weekend, saying they want better living conditions and to be paid for work they do in the prisons. Inmates said they would not perform chores, work for […]
(Washington Post) — The first thing to go might be your smartphone’s connection to YouTube, with videos becoming increasingly choppy and then one day just failing to download. In your impatience, you decide to scout out the latest posts in the Twittersphere, except that, too, is temporarily down. Your e-mail is stalled, and even a […]
(Daily Finance) — Cellphones are becoming a huge part of the holiday shopping experience, according to a report released Wednesday by the Mobile Marketing Association and Luth Research. Based on a Luth’s survey of about 1,000 adults, about 60% of U.S. consumers plan to use their cellphones to find and buy gifts this holiday season. […]
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(Foreign Policy) — The best-kept secret about Africa in the last decade is the continent’s rapid and creative adoption of modern technology. African countries have for the most part leapfrogged the technologies of the late 20th century to adopt those of the early 21st en masse. There are now 10 times as many cell phones […]