Keitai

Via Experentia:
According to a recent Nokia survey of consumers in emerging markets [conducted in India, China, Brazil, Pakistan, Vietnam, Russia and Egypt], a new trend appears to be emerging: phone sharing. More than 50% of respondents in India, Pakistan and nearly 30% in Vietnam indicate that they share, or would share, [...]

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(Preface…not much blogging lately as i’ve been struggling with my spam issue for several months. At least i’m not alone with this particular problem but having to wade through instructions to harden Wordpress and worry about the nasty emails i’ve received from Google are making me reconsider the amount of energy required to host [...]

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Preface: I watched three great presentations about kids over the past few weeks. The first at Fjord’s MobileCamp London; was mobile focused. The second, at Brandlicensing Expo 2007 was about preschoolers and their relationships with branded/licensed toys. The third was Marc Presky’s plenary presentation at Handheld Learning 2007 on kids, technology and learning.
All three [...]

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Preface: I watched three great presentations about kids over the past few weeks. The first at Fjord’s MobileCamp London; was mobile focused. The second, at Brandlicensing Expo 2007 was about preschoolers and their relationships with branded/licensed toys. The third was Marc Presky’s plenary presentation at Handheld Learning 2007 on kids, technology and learning.
All three [...]

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We’re moving on again (on Monday…yikes…) Bryan has been offered a full-time position working with Future Platforms in Brighton. I will be taking a month or so off to sort out what i’m doing next (definetely something mobile…) and in the meantime; I already have a very full schedule.

September 29-30: Mobile BarCamp at Fjord [...]

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The European comission for Information Society and Media has released a very comprehensive report on the habits of European youth.
In a pan-European qualitative study covering 29 European countries, children of 9-10 and 12-14 years old were interviewed in-depth about their use of online technologies, like the Internet and mobile phones, and how they see and [...]

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Ahem…a tad late blogging about BETT. I’ve been super busy.
Having spent several years working in Canadian schools, and about 7 years involved in the Canadian ‘kids’ content’ scene—attending an educational technology trade show such as BETT was quite the treat. The sheer volume of content and services on offer was overwhelming and there seemed [...]

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This week, Xellular Identity has an interview with Nick Wright from Wireless World Forum’s Mobile Youth report.
…One of the more interesting findings is that mobiles have come to take the place in youth culture traditionally held by cigarettes. They provide or allow private communication, the activity is carried out largely unsupervised and [...]

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