RITA TRICHUR — TELECOM REPORTER
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, May. 15, 2012

marina strauss — RETAILING REPORTER
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Apr. 02, 2012

while mobile retail is about to boom, the jury is still out on the use of QR codes, said Kaan Yigit, president of Solutions Research Group. Only 20 per cent of Canadian smartphone owners use them; those people are generally male and over half the users are under 30, he said.

For the virtual-store idea to work, shoppers first need to install the app and then use a QR code. “Unless what they are selling is highly exclusive or unique, there are just easier ways to buy the same thing – either at brick and mortar stores or online.”

March 28, 2012 | NYT | By QUENTIN HARDY.

Sometimes unexpected data sources offer big insights....The idea is to have a lot of data of all kinds on hand, because sometimes unexpected combinations of information can lead to valuable insights.
...We will probably see more strange corollaries start to pop up, as more behavior is stored in online databases.

Mar 07 2012
The Coming Revolution in Mobile Job Hunting
By Joseph Walker

Recent graduates and college and graduate students surveyed are either using their smartphones for career-related purposes or could imagine themselves doing so....Yet just a quarter of the 117 American companies surveyed had either a mobile application or mobile-enabled website....AT&T, in 2009 optimized portions of its careers site for mobile users. It uses "sniffer" technology to detect what device someone is using and then directs them to a page designed for that particular smartphone. In the coming months, it will release a new version of its mobile site that will make even more content from its desktop site available to mobile users, said Jennifer Terry, director of staffing strategic initiatives.

Feb 13 2012 | The Atlantic | Alexis Madrigal.

ivor tossell
Special to Globe and Mail Update
Published Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

rita trichur AND iain marlow
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012

By TINA ROSENBERG
December 9, 2011

Whether a language lives or dies, says K. David Harrison, an associate professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College, is a choice made by 6-year-olds.

Nov. 23, 2011 |The Financial Times. p14 |
Bernard Simon.

"Games are the driving force of the app economy," Mr Sharma says, citing sources such as Nielsen, ABI Research and PwC. One chart shows that games make up 60 per cent of apps with the highest revenues. Another shows that playing a mobile app game costs 5 cents an hour, versus 18 cents to watch a film on TV or $6.25 for an hour at the cinema.

Mr Sharma, who came to Canada from India as a child, worked as a technology analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston in San Francisco, before moving to BMO Capital and GMP Securities in Toronto.

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Galaxy Nexus: An In-Your-Face Android Phone

iain marlow — TELECOM REPORTER
Globe and Mail Update
Published Friday, Nov. 18, 2011

Canada's Mobilicity Slashes Prices for Holidays

marina strauss — RETAILING REPORTER
Globe and Mail Update
Published Tuesday, Nov. 01, 2011

Seth Fiegerman
NEW YORK— <a href="http://www.thestreet.com">TheStreet</a>
Published Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011

Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Miami— The Associated Press
Published Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011

By MATT RICHTEL
Published: October 1, 2007

The mobile-payment technology can create a desensitizing and seductive purchase experience, said James Katz, director of the Center for Mobile Communications Studies at Rutgers University.

JUNE 10, 2008 | WSJ | By ROBERT LEE HOTZ.

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are using international data flows of cellphone talk and Internet traffic to capture the complex social dynamics of urban life and globalization. Most recently, the researchers used anonymous real-time data supplied by AT&T Inc. on phone calls, web-browsing and email traffic to and from millions of New Yorkers to chart the city's global social networks. The resulting maps, called the New York Talk Exchange, were recently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.

APRIL 23, 2011 | WSJ | By ROBERT LEE HOTZ.

The Really Smart Phone
Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even our political views.

"We have turned society into a laboratory where behavior can be objectively followed."

By Jon Boone

Published: June 2 2008

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With business development stunted by corruption and insecurity, the mobile phone sector is one of Afghanistan’s biggest success stories post-2001. In rare examples of international companies making sizeable investments in Afghanistan, both Etisalat of the United Arab Emirates and MTN of South Africa have entered the market.

All the same, Afghanistan re­mains one of the toughest places in the world to set up any business, let alone telecoms companies requiring a decent level of infrastructure, skilled labour and a supportive government. The companies often have to build their own roads to reach remote sites, sometimes clearing landmines, in their attempts to create a network

11 June 2008 | New Scientist | by Jason Palmer.

How do phones fit in?
The common denominator between cultures, regardless of age, gender or context is: keys, money and,
if you own one, a mobile phone. Why those three objects? Without wanting to sound hyperbolic,
essentially it boils down to survival. Keys provide access to warmth and shelter, money is a very
versatile tool that can buy food, transport and so on. A mobile phone, people soon realise, is a great
tool for recovering from emergency situations, especially if the first two fail.

What uses surprised you?
In a country like Uganda, most mobile phones are prepay. What we saw was that people are using their
phones as a kind of money transfer system. They would buy prepaid credit in the city, ring up a phone
kiosk operator in a village, read out the number associated with that credit so that the kiosk operator
could top up their own phone, then ask that the credit be passed on to someone in the village - say,
their sister - in cash....

With this level of informal innovation going on, can you bring anything extra to the table?
I'm not going to give you the bland corporate answer - "we do this research and then six months later a
product drops off the factory line that perfectly reflects our vision" - because the world is much messier
and more interesting than that. But, for instance, we did a study on phone sharing in Uganda and
Indonesia, and within a year - which is really quick when you're talking about hardware changes - we
had two products out which support multiple address books,

06.16.08 | Forbes | Elizabeth Woyke.

By: Marjorie Valbrun | Posted: May 21, 2008.

Mobile phones are helping people climb out of poverty, spurring small-scale entrepreneurship, promoting development and even helping farmers and market women work more efficiently and earn more money.

The story of what is happening in Haiti is part of a larger trend taking place in developing countries around the globe, particularly in Asia and Africa. The world is witnessing a seismic social, cultural and technological shift that is changing how people work, live and thrive – all because of cell phones.

June 29, 2008 | The New York Times | By Tim Arango.

the company has been testing a program called Reuters Market Light for several months in Maharashtra, an Indian state about the size of Italy. The state is one of India's prominent agricultural centers, with farmers growing onions, oranges, corn, soybeans, wheat and bananas. But the farmers' business suffers from the difficulty of comparing prices from one market to another.

"We kind of saw that there was a clear market inefficiency," said Mans Olof-Ors, a Reuters employee who had the idea for Market Light three years ago. "The farmer would decide which market to travel to, then would just sell to that market. So there was no competition between markets."

Reuters has dispatched about 60 market reporters to the region to report on the going price for, say, oranges or onions, and to package the data into a text message that is sent to subscribers.

The service is signing up about 220 subscribers a day at a price of 175 rupees, or about $4.10, for three months at post offices throughout Maharashtra. The average monthly income of a farm household is about $50, according to the Indian government. The service has about 40,000 customers so far - a tiny portion of India's farm population, which is in the hundreds of millions, but it proves that many farmers are hungry for more information.

Reuters has collected anecdotal evidence from farmers about how the service has influenced their decisions about crop sales. One farmer, according to Reuters, held back the sale of 30 quintals of soybeans - one quintal equals 100 kilograms, or 220 pounds - for 15 days after noticing that prices had been rising for several days. He was able to get 400 extra rupees a quintal.

Amit Mehra, managing director of Market Light, said early data showed that most subscribers were making more money from their crops.

PREET BANERJEE | Columnist profile | E-mail
Globe and Mail Update
Published Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 10:26AM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011

Sept. 22, 2011 WS By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES. Stingrays are
designed to locate a mobile phone even when it's not being used to make
a call. The FBI considers the devices to be so critical that it has a
policy of deleting the data gathered in their use, mainly to keep
suspects in the dark about their capabilities, an FBI official told The
Wall Street Journal in response to inquiries.

hugh thompson
Special to Globe and Mail Update
Published Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2011 6:00AM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2011

November 12, 2010 WSJ By Ben Rooney. A patient goes into the
pharmicist, buys the drugs and scratches off a panel to reveal an
10-digit code. They send that number in an SMS message — which is free —
using a short dialing code. A few seconds later they get a text back
confirming, or otherwise, the authenticity of the drugs.

April 1, 2010 | Fast Company | By: Anya Kamenetz

The U.S. Department of Education has earmarked $5 billion in competitive
school-reform grants to scale up pilot programs and evaluate best
practices of all kinds. Major foundations are specifically zeroing in on
handhelds for preschool and the primary grades. "Young kids and
multisensor-touch computing are a huge area of innovation," says Phoenix
Wang, the head of a startup philanthropic venture fund called Startl --
funded by the Gates, MacArthur, and Hewlett foundations -- that's
entirely focused on educational investing. For Pat Condon

Apr 7th 2011 | DAR ES SALAAM

Whether on mobile phones or tablets, being online is rapidly becoming
the norm in Africa. That will boost the continent’s information and
entertainment business and allow African media houses such as the Nation
Media Group (in the east) and Media24 (in the south) to expand their
businesses around digital content tailored to local languages and
markets. Western content-makers will no doubt worry about the increased
risk of piracy, but if they get their offerings right Africa will be a
huge new market for their wares too.

By Gary Ng on June 16th, 2010.
Benefits of Purchasing an Unlocked iPhone and Going Contract-Free:
(1) For starters, when you travel you’ll be able to pop in a SIM card
from your travel destination and talk for dirt cheap, at a fraction of
what it would cost to roam internationally.
(2) A factory unlocked iPhone will retain a higher resale value versus a
phone locked to a specific carrier.
(3) Avoid re-signing the dreaded 3 year contracts from Rogers, Telus,
and Bell. The freedom of not being tied down is priceless.
(4) If the ‘Big 3′ decide to make changes to your plan while you’re on
contract, you will have no choice but to accept them. But when you’re
contract free with an unlocked iPhone–you will be able to jump to
whatever carrier/plan you wish–without paying a penalty (assuming you’re
on a month to month plan, and not on contract). Need to move suddenly
out of the country?–no problem! No cancellation fees here, folks! :)

Iain Marlow
Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, Jul. 29, 2010

August 26 2010 by Ellen Roseman

Jun. 04, 2011
Trevor Butterworth is a NYC-based journalist who specializes in risk
analysis & phony health scares. “I’ll tell you what we should be
really worried about,” he said, “Lawn mowers.” “Scientists and
researchers aren’t very good at communicating risk,” says Butterworth.
And people aren’t very good at understanding it. We are far more fearful
of the extraordinary, low-risk things that hardly ever kill us
(terrorists, airplane crashes, shark attacks) than the ordinary
high-risk things that kill us all the time (driving to Grandma’s for
Sunday dinner)..

Our estimate of risk is anything but rational....Geoffrey Kabat is the
author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and
the Science of Epidemiology. He says that many different actors – not
just the media – contribute to the hyping of health risks. They include
scientists promoting their results, health & regulatory agencies
that need issues to promote, as well as activists, politicians &
lawyers.

By Rick Broida | June 2, 2011�

There are no seatbelts for cell phones, of course, but it’s still pretty
easy to virtually eliminate their radiation risks. Here are three
effective solutions:
Use a corded headset.Use a Bluetooth headset.Use your phone’s
speakerphone.My preference continues to be number 1. Corded headsets are
dirt-cheap (meaning you can buy one for your car, another for your
office, a third for your coat pocket, and so on) but produce the best
overall sound quality.
Bluetooth headsets are okay, but they’re often expensive, almost always
dorky-looking, and one more thing to keep charged. As for speakerphones,
in my experience they sound pretty crummy, especially if there’s a lot
of ambient noise (like in the car).

May 15, 2011 | NYT | �By JENNA WORTHAM
Microsoft's acquisition of Skype�could accelerate the change
whereby wireless carriers' current practice of funneling voice and data
traffic over two separate networks is consolidated such that all mobile
services, incl. text msgs. & �voice & �video calls,
travel over data networks....Wireless carriers are looking for new ways
to make money based on mobile broadband & apps, rather than voice
minutes....It is not just Skype that the wireless cos. need to worry
about. A bevy of mobile messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Kik, GroupMe
and textPlus, allow people to send msgs. over data networks,
sidestepping the cost of sending and receiving standard text
msgs....Carriers already must deal with many new competitors like Apple,
Facebook and Google are making services available that traditionally
only carriers could offer. Google, like Skype, offers ways to make free
phone and video calls over the Internet. Apple lets iPhone owners make
video calls.

May 9, 2011, 9:30 pm
Doing More Than Praying for Rain
By TINA ROSENBERG

Farming an acre of grain with nothing more than a strong back and a hoe
has always been precarious, but now more so than ever, because of
climate change....Small farmers around the world need many different
things to help them survive climate change: seeds resistant to extreme
weather and pests, cheap irrigation systems, and better agricultural
infrastructure, such as more feeder roads. But one thing that can help
small farmers now is insurance....Weather insurance for small farmers
has always faced numerous barriers. But throughout east Africa today
there are projects finding creative and innovative ways to overcome
them.

February 24, 2011
by James R. Hagerty

April 11, 2011| Businessweek | By Ian King and Olga Kharif

DECEMBER 27, 2010 | | By ANDREW DOWELL The Rise of Apps, iPad and Android

Dec 2nd 2010 | The Economist

November 10, 2010 | Jam Side Down | Mart Manley. A third
wave is about to hit the telecommunications industry....this third wave
is the rise of the mobile internet platforms. There are three: Apple,
Google, and Facebook. Their different competencies and interests give
them radically different views of the future of voice calling. And all
three are likely to contribute to a much, much better mobile telco
infrastructure -- although we are unlikely to call it that.

The rise of mobile platforms spells the end of the phone call.

* NOVEMBER 16, 2010 | | By ROGER CHENG

Nov. 15, 2010 | The Globe and Mail | Omar El Akkad — Technology Reporter

Nov 11th 2010 | The Economist | Anonymous.

Nov. 2, 2010 |NYT| Tom FRIEDMAN..."the single most important
trend in the world today: globalization — the distn of cheap tools of
comm. & innovation that are wiring together the world’s citizens,
govts., biz, terrorists — is going to a whole new level."....EKO India
Fin Services' founders, Abhishek & Abhinav Sinha , began with an
insight — that low-wage migrant workers flocking to Delhi from poorer
states like Bihar had no place to put their savings & no secure way
to remit $ home to their families. India has relatively few bank
branches for a country its size, so many migrants stuff $ in their
mattresses or send $ home through traditional “hawala,” or hand-to-hand
networks...The brothers' idea: In every neighborhood there’s a
mom-and-pop kiosk selling drinks, cigs, candy & groceries. Why not
turn each one into a virtual bank? They created a s/ware prgrm allowing
a migrant in Delhi using his cellphone, & proof of identity, to
open a bank acct. registered on his cellphone txt system.

Oct 28th 2010 | The Economist |

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 | Wall Street Journal | By PHRED DVORAK

AUGUST 3, 2010 | Wall Street Journal | By SPENCER E. ANTE And
ROGER CHENG. AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile Exploring a
Cellphone Mobile-Payments System Along With Discover and Barclays

Jul. 26, 2010 | The Globe and Mail | Grant Buckler. Ray Newal
founded Jigsee Inc. with a mission to “democratize” access to video
content.

By DAVID A. KELLY
Published: July 27, 2010

Dakshana Bascaramurty

Globe and Mail Update Published on Sunday, Jun. 06, 2010 9:41PM EDT Last updated on Monday, Jun. 07, 2010

By Rachel Sanderson

Published: May 7 2010
Vodafone last month launched an application called Vodafone Mobile
Recording, which enables regulated companies to record and archive
mobile conversations, voicemails and text messages to protect against
any losses from disputes.

The move comes amid expectations that the FSA will soon extend its
"taping rules" on recording communications transactions to mobile
phones.

May. 10, 2010 | Globe & Mail | by TMS Ruge

April 28, 2010 | New York Times | By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and NICK BILTON

APRIL 21, 2010 | Wall Street Journal | By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER.
Retailers Reach Out on Cellphones. Software Apps Provide Shoppers With
Rewards to Help Lure Them Into Stores.

Jun 25, 2009 | The Globe and Mail. .: pg. B.8 | Terrence
Belford. DataBar, the latest step forward in bar-code technology. A
small round label with black bars stuck on those fruits or vegetables.
Those small black stripes are tiny libraries of information."For
consumers it means much greater speed passing through the checkout
counter," he says. "No more [clerks] looking through product lists
manually to find prices. They can all be scanned in seconds."

For retailers it opens the door to easy, inexpensive new ways to track
inventory, determine which items from what suppliers sell best, prevent
the sale to customers of items at or perilously close to best-before
dates and to avoid cashier errors.

Jun 25, 2009 | The Globe and Mail. pg. B.8 | Terrence
Belford. Samplesaint Inc. of Chicago may have turned the
money-off-coupon industry on its ear. Samplesaint, a two-year-old
venture that creates digital media for mobile phones, has come up with a
way to place discount coupons on cellphone screens.

Consumers register, provide an e-mail address and password and then
download coupons from the www.samplesaint.com site or through text
message addresses placed on supermarket shelves. On the way out, the
cashier scans the on-screen coupon at the checkout counter. No more
waiting for flyers to land on the doorstep, no clipping and saving.

Jun. 25, 2009 | Globe and Mail | by Tara Perkins

Microinsurance
Security for shillings
Insuring crops with a mobile phone

Mar 11th 2010 | From The Economist print edition

FEBRUARY 24, 2010 | Wall Street Journal | by By JOSEPH DE AVILA. The Unused Cellphone App: 'Calling'

January 31, 2010, | BusinessWeek | By Aaron Ricadela. 'Here I
Am!' GPS Location Apps Have Limited Appeal
Online services that send updates on a person's location are all the
rage in Silicon Valley, but they have far to go before they'll be
adopted elsewhere

Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 | Globe & Mail pg. A12 | by JEFF
GRAY. "In the surprisingly near future, your cellphone may be able to
warn you about a traffic jam ahead, predict precisely how long your
commute home will take, or even recommend an alternative route."
computers essentially take a look at the torrent of data this "pinging"
pours in, using a "triangulation" process based on the time-delay
between pings. Its system figures out which cellphones are moving, where
they are, and how fast they are going. The data are then streamed into a
traffic map and produce precise information on speeds and estimated
travel times not just on major expressways, but on every single road in
cellphone range.

Mar 11 2009 | Etech | by Quinn Norton

May 8, 2009 | TechCrunch | by MG Siegler

Technology Review

July 11, 2009 | New York Times | By LESLIE BERLIN

Jul. 04, 2009 | Globe and Mail | Simon Avery

June 21, 2009 | New York Times | By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and
MATT RICHTEL. Mobile payment systems have been tried before with
limited success. However, driven by the success of the iPhone,
BlackBerry and other smartphones, complex interactions have been made
easier, and they have demonstrated that people on the go are willing to
spend on music, games and virtual goods. Now the race is on to develop
new payment systems — and to seek several percentage points in fees from
each transaction.

Jun. 17, 2009 | The Globe & Mail | by Simon Avery

June 13, 2009 | Globe & Mail | SIMON AVERY

October 23, 2006 | Wall Street Journal | Sarmad Ali

A Risk Assessment Framework for Mobile Payments

Roger Clarke **

Preprint of 17 April 2008

Tomi Dahlberg, Niina Mallat, Helsinki School of Economics, Jan
Ondrus, Ecole des HEC, University of Lausanne, Agnieszka Zmijewska,
University of Technology, Sydney

Jan Ondrus, Yves Pigneur, "A Systematic Approach to Explain the
Delayed Deployment of Mobile Payments in Switzerland," icmb, pp.6, 2006
International Conference on Mobile Business, 2006

July 10, 2008 | Backbone Magazine | By Ian Harvey

November 2 2006 | Financial Times | By John Willman. Profiles Christina Domecq of SpinVox