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Some good commentary this week from Russell in The PDA is Dead, Long Live the Smartphone.
Latest from Gartner is that Smartphone sales are soaring, eagle-like, into the ether, with an increase in sales of 75%. During the same period, PDA sales barely rose 5%, with Palm not even bothering to launch a [...]

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“Nokia and international children’s organisation, Plan (formerly Foster Parents’ Plan), have joined forces to use modern communications technologies in Africa to raise children’s awareness of their rights and opportunities. Nokia has provided an initial donation of 1 million Euros for 2006. The first stage of this new joint effort will see Nokia focus on supporting [...]

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I’ve been trying to formulate a reasonably plausible handset literacy checklist to inform some upcoming projects. Since a handset is the closest many people will come to owning a personal computer and may be used to accomplish similar tasks, I thought i’d start with a list for computer literacy and see how they compare.
Computer Literacy
My [...]

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Too busy to blog lately but just have to post this for my fellow Canadians who still entertain dreams of making millions developing for the Blackberry. Recent figures from Business Week…

3.2 Million Blackberries
50 Million PDAs
70 Million iPods
190 Million Gameboys
820 Million PCs
1.5 Billion TV sets
2 Billion Mobile phones (actually I read [...]

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I got an interesting email yesterday in response to my recent post about mobility in Canada. It seems that Rogers Wireless has partnered with a word-of-mouth marketer call Matchstick, to promote the Nokia 6682 through bloggers in Toronto and Vancouver. They plan to give away phones to people who meet this criteria….

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In honour of Canada Day (July 1st) I thought i’d offer up some information about mobility in the ‘great white north.’
I have an ongoing love-hate relationship with the Canadian mobile industry—mostly due to the fact that we don’t really have one yet (harsh words I know.) Digging up information about what’s going on here is [...]

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One of the topics I find the most fascinating in mobile was again in the news yesterday with the imminent arrival of the 2 billion-th GSM subscriber—mostly due to astronomically high subscriber numbers in emerging markets.
“While it took just 12 years for the industry to reach the first billion connections. The second billion has [...]

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