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Cell Phone Literacy Ideas in China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just had a great meeting with Jenny Zhao where we talked about the cell phone industry in China. Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company. Of course, it could be years before we do something like this in China, but the seed's been planted!

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What do mobile phones, baseball, and pediatric Diabetes have in common?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s phone bill. s Super Bowl launch of a United Way fund-raising campaign using mobile phone text messaging. " In a May 2008 post in Read/Write Web about Text to Give Campaigns : Mobile Giving is certainly a growing trend meant to capitalize on the ubiquity of cell phones and their heavy use by members of the younger generation.

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Mobile-First Still Matters

Forum One

Likely, most of this growth will come from China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan. As the years pass, cell phones will remain an ever-growing way to access the internet. What a website would look like and how it would behave at smaller viewports (in this case, phones, and eventually, tablets) was often an afterthought.

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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

billion people are now using the Internet worldwide, 618 million of them are in China. About a quarter of Internet traffic is now on smartphones, and about a third of all mobile phones (5.2 The latest edition has lots of NPTech insights. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 billion of them) are now smartphones worldwide.

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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Will the move to, for instance, tablet and phone computing be a net positive or negative benefit in terms of resource consumption? We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries. And, between phones, tablets, e-readers, laptops, desktops, servers, routers … it’s an incredible amount of resource consumption and waste.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the best memories of Isaac was standing in the Schatzalp hotel holding a laptop to his ear like it was a cell phone, because someone had made a Skype connection to Nigeria. China and India were big topics of this Forum. As he puts it: "shit business is serious business." Isaac is so big, it actually fit.

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Lame spam roundup

Robert Weiner

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