News came out today about Nokia’s acquisition of Novarra to bring web capabilities to its low end Series 40 handsets. The article notes that “Nokia presumably believes that, as mobile web activity moves away from downloadable apps into the browser (in theory at least), it should control this strategic piece of software. This makes absolute [...]

Read this provocative and entertaining read penned by mobile guru Ewan MacLeod over at the Mobile Industry Review In the meantime, whilst the “painful transition from shitphones (“feature phones”) to smartphone continues”, how can we make internet stuff fast, easy and cheap for a few billion people? Shout out LOUD……..”2..4..6..8….biNu!”

Listen to this excerpt from a BBC Bizweekly podcast about how the Internet, and even Facebook, helps a farmer in the Rift Valley of Kenya solve crop disease problems, optimize prices for his produce and deal with trespassers on his land. He cycles 10km to the nearest Internet cafe to search Google. Imagine if he [...]

There’s a post over at TechCrunch that outlines an innovative technology that brings mobile phone infrastructure to remote rural areas of India. The technology itself sounds great, but the really interesting part of the post was reading accounts from individuals living in remote areas who have just got mobiles, it really is changing their lives. [...]