Barclays became the first bank to launch such an app for its own customers last week. Now the wider banking industry – in the form of the Payments Council – is in the throes of setting up a database which can link all bank accounts to their owners’ mobile phone numbers. This in turn will [...]
A team led by a Libyan-American telecom executive has helped rebels hijack Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s cellphone network and re-establish their own communications. The new network, first plotted on an airplane napkin and assembled with the help of oil-rich Arab nations, is giving more than two million Libyans their first connections to each other and the [...]
Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWB) is an initiative by a group of scientists, animators and extension tutors at the University of Illinois to create short videos that can be sent and downloaded to mobile phones. Each video features a character demonstrating how to do certain agriculture-related tasks. One video, for example, shows viewers in Africa [...]
Half of consumers are using their phones to help make shopping decisions, suggesting that old-style feature phones have a place in the market, according to a new survey. The report, by Arc Worldwide, based on a survey of 1,800 U.S. mobile phone users and a smaller qualitative study with 30 mobile shoppers, shows 50% of [...]
Beijing, Feb. 26 (ANI): Chinese authorities have punished hundreds of people in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for spreading rumours and separatist content through text messages during the Spring Festival holiday. Two persons were detained on Feb 20, while the rest received administrative punishments for sending illegal text messages, according to a statement released by [...]
In areas where net-connected computers are not common, the mobile phone is becoming a vital tool for news In Africa, mobile phone penetration is higher than electricity penetration. Graphic by Jon Gosier of Appfrica Labs Thanks to the iPhone and other smart phones, in the western world mobile phones are getting increasingly important for journalism. [...]
Forget fumbling with tiny cell phone keys. A prototype of a new application allows cell phone users to write short notes in the air and send them automatically to an e-mail address. This represents just one possible step toward allowing people to naturally merge the real world with the information power of the Internet. Travelers [...]
The medium that in itself has probably had the major impact on cultural life in the past 50 years, television, is about to be deeply transformed. From a medium that has been driven from its inception by mass production and distribution economics, we are witnessing a transformation into something altogether different from what we have [...]
Most corporate networkers believe P2P, with its ability to “hog” bandwidth and its myriad security issues, is a consumer phenomenon. This is a misconception that in the future may be the undoing of the corporate network. P2P network applications such as KaZaA or Napster may not have a place in the corporate environment, but the [...]
I came across and very good research paper which talks about the a synergy between peerto-peer (p2p) overlay networks for the Internet and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) connecting mobile nodes communicating with each other via multi-hop wireless links – both share the key characteristics of selforganization and decentralization, and both need to solve the [...]
