Apr 26

Villages have voices

BBC News has a great article - Giving a voice to India’s villagers – about an experiment in rural India, using mobile phones to bring people news made by local villagers:

No-one has given any information about the Mongra dam and the displacement it has caused in 14 villages. I want the voice of the poor to reach the people through my report.


Feb 15

SharePoint and Windows Mobile 7

Windows Mobile 7 and SharePoint 2010

You can access any document from your Sharepoint server with editing and creation functionalities on your phone.

Today Microsoft finally unveiled Windows Mobile 7, a major upgrade to their mobile phone operating system software. And with it they also announced the Office Hub – accessing Office and SharePoint through the phone. At last…


Apr 30

Desperately seeking a new business model

(Side note: The challenge with writing blog posts on my mobile phone whilst travelling on a train is that I forget about them. Just discovered this one, written over a month ago and updated based on recent news. Oh, and for those of a certain age, hum the related Madonna tune to yourself whilst reading.) [...]


Mar 29

English sheep and Indian fishermen

Or rather, how mobile technologies are enabling better supply chain management in rural India than in not-so-rural England. Whilst listening to a MIX08 session online – I Wanna Go Mobile – the host, Michael Platt, retold a story about Indian fishermen benefitting from mobile technologies. In the past, rural villages along the coast of India [...]


Mar 11

Mobile Social Networks

A few days ago, Charlene Li (Forrester) posted an article – Social networks will be like air. My immediate thought was ‘the mobile phone is the social network’. But perhaps it should have been ‘the mobile phone carries the social network’. It’s a thought that has been percolating through my brain since the comments from [...]


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