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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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Mobiles leapfrog the fixed internet in Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

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One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Across the continent, and even in relatively developed South Africa, fixed broadband Internet is difficult to access, expensive, and unreliable. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent.

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Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? - Trends in the Living Networks

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in Australia: Showcasing the best | Main | Particls switches on the power of RSS » Prepaid mobile airtime becomes currency in Africa – what happened to e-cash? Ross Dawson, May 28, 2007 3:17 PM US PT Om Malik has a very interesting article on how pre-paid mobile minutes are effectively becoming a currency across Africa.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. What is a certainty is that we will be using mobile social networks even more centrally to our lives than the role of Facebook and other browser-based social applications today.

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Choosing LambdaTest for Selenium Automation

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In the world of software development, it is very important never to forget about the testing phase. It is a web application, developed in any language. Selenium provides the developer with an API that will allow him to interact with the page he wants to try. license that can be downloaded and used free of charge.

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Eight key developments in the global media industry: July 2006 – June 2007 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Developments continue apace – we’ll be keeping track… Industry transactions News Corp offers $5 billion for the Dow Jones, including the Wall Street Journal (finalized July 2007). An unauthorised video of Saddam Hussein’s execution filmed on a mobile phone is broadcast around the world. Full details in the report.

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Device convergence in our pockets - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

examines how mobile phones, PDAs, portable computers and more are converging. It quotes me as follows: According to Ross Dawson, chairman of the Future Networks think tank, other obstacles will also frustrate users looking for a portable mobile computing solution. When you do that you cannot see it.

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