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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

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

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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. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent. Now phone companies are taking the opportunity to offer mobile data services and internet access.

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

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Technology ranging from mobile applications to online gaming will become an everyday part of our work lives. It is due to a phenomenon called Constant Partial Attention, or CPA, in which our attention is constantly divided between a massive array of channels now including mobile Internet, video screens on buses, and more. May 2005 (4).

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Device convergence in our pockets - Trends in the Living Networks

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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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