CTIA is happening today and it’s quite the mobile show for the US Mobile Geek crowd, aka me.’a0 🙂 The United States might be home to a lot of innovations in the technology world, but I would say in many areas we’ve been lacking in mobile technology.’a0 However, some announcements and innovations today restored a…
Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about 1) the African mobile marketplace and how Africans utilize their mobile phones; and 2) how organizations are using social marketing to reach this highly mobile population for social change. The series is based on a conversation I had with Gustav Praekelt, a mobile…
A while back I wrote a GigaOm post (that never published, unfortunately) on netbook and cloud based computing, and discovered the amazing technology in Qualcomm’s Gobi chipset. At a high level, Gobi is a wireless LAN chipset that allows you to connect to different mobile broadband networks, namely EVDO and HSPA. So, whether you have…