Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Posted by Roberto
10:39 AM
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POCKET PEERS, PEERCHASING
CIRCLES OF TRUST AND MOBILE MEMORIES
In their modern forms and with their new functions, mobile phones are moving on to become storage and display systems in which items of interest are shared.
In Japan, the MIXI entertainment community ("MIX"+"I") for maintaining remote friendships and relationships (similar to Friendster, Myspace, Orkut) has seen the number of its members reaching 3 million (increased by about 6 times over the past year and it has grew from 2 million to 3 millon in only 84 days). One of the features that its users enjoy most is the Ashiato feature: the trace / footprint automatically notified in the Ashiato log whenever someone visits one's personal page, which makes it easier to initiate a discussion.
These ideas of circles of trust, communication with distinct (but flexible) boundaries, of calls as group events rather than two-way exchanges, all point to some fundamental changes in the definition of mobile-phone conversation.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Posted by Roberto
9:31 AM
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INTERNET USE IN EU
Big differences in the level of Internet use among EU nations according to the report from the Eurostat statistics agency, based on data gathered in 2005.
In Greece, 73 percent of the population say they have never used the Internet, the survey said, well above the EU average of 43 percent. More than half the citizens of the Czech Republic, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland and Portugal have never logged on to the Net.
Domestic connections in the EU rose from 43 percent to 48 percent since 2004. The number of homes connected to broadband rose from 15 percent to 23 percent.
In the Netherlands, 78 percent of households are connected to the Net, compared to just 16 percent in Lithuania. The Dutch also lead the way in domestic broadband access, with 54 percent of homes linked up compared to 1 percent in Greece, 4 percent in Cyprus and 5 percent in the Czech Republic.
At least 90 percent of businesses are linked to the Internet in all nations included in the survey, except Latvia, Hungary, Cyprus, Lithuania and Poland.
Source: Eurostat
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