Netbooks at $99 from AT&T
Posted: April 4, 2009 Filed under: india, technology | Tags: 3G, AirTel, gadgets, india, infrastructure, japan, mobile computing, netbooks, networks, technology, trends, USA, wireless 1 Comment »This piece of news is exciting enough to merit a blog post.
This year, at least one wireless phone company in the United States will probably offer netbooks free with paid data plans, copying similar programs in Japan, according to industry experts.
But this revolution is not just about falling prices. Personal computers — and the companies that make their crucial components — are about to go through their biggest upheaval since the rise of the laptop. By the end of the year, consumers are likely to see laptops the size of thin paperback books that can run all day on a single charge and are equipped with touch screens or slide-out keyboards.
How long before we have the intersection of 3G and Netbooks in India? I see this as a positive trend for Web services and the Internet economy.
Have you seen a Bodafone?
Posted: June 22, 2008 Filed under: building ventures | Tags: Africa, Anjali, india, infrastructure, inspiration, technology, tinker 2 Comments »
Ken Banks devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15 years working on projects in Africa.
In his essay, Mobiles in Africa: A Travellers Perspective, Ken Banks describes the entrepreneurial spirit thriving in Africa around the mobile industry,
“..Mobile phones are attached to bikes (two and three wheelers), and even boats, and taken to where the business is. In Uganda these bikes, known locally as boda boda’s, are hooked up with spare batteries and desktop mobile devices to create what are affectionately known as Bodafones”. Read the rest of this entry »
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