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Mobile for Good: Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress

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As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. At the MWC keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for a low-cost data plan that would include basic search and social networking and Wikipedia access – essentially all text-based services. Image 1: miuet.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

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century Italy. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. nonprofit technology news NPTech news wearable computing Google Glass singularity' Another example is the Philips Lifeline gadget from late night TV commercial fame in which an elderly person wears a monitor that calls 911 if they fall down.