Worldwide Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 42% penetration in 2008 and 53% penetration by 2014 worldwide. US Mobile Subscriber Penetration With 88% penetration in 2008 and 104% penetration by 2014 in the United States. The above numbers for the US matches the penetration numbers…
Not only landlines are being replaced by mobile phones, but according to the Annual TeleGeography study of the international voice market, international long-distance calling is also moving to mobile handsets: ceo
A recent report by the PEW Internet Project titled Networked Workers reveals a couple of interesting numbers on texting usage in the USA: General Numbers on Technology Usage by “Networked Workers” 93% own a cell phone, compared with 78% of all American adults…
According to Gartner, worldwide smartphone sales reached its lowest growth rate with 11.5% increase in 3rd quarter of 2008. It also says that Nokia is the #1 smartphone manufacturer/seller: Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of…
Antonio Goncalves writes that Everybody should be able to easily observe JSRs. Yes, I agree. But it really is more than just being able to observe. I was an Observer for the MSA 1.0 Expert Group (EG) and other EGs; but not all…
It has been one year since the last time that I hosted the Carnival of the Mobilists. And it is with great pleasure that I bring you the Carnival of the Mobilists #154, the last one for 2008. This week we have a…
2008 was a very interesting year for me, with both failures and successes and tons of lessons learned. But life is good. 2009 will be a very interesting year for mobility and handsets and applications. An example of this was yesterday when I…
I like the image above (source: DesktopLinux.com). While not real (today), think about it. The machine boots up to a totally web-based experience. The application-bar at the bottom of the screen consists of widgets and icons (links) to web-based applications. One of the…
The search for the meteor impact site is on in Alberta, Canada. Dec 5 2008: Well, since Hulu TV removed the original video of the meteor, I had to replace it with a different meteor video below. But here is the link to…
(c) Carlos Enrique Ortiz 2001 - 2024
(
)