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Consumer Literacy

28 Jun 2013
In: Cultural Norms, Mandalay
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Branding focussed on value, versus technology. And the assumptions consumers have associated with each of the technologies.
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Near Time, Unrecorded

02 Mar 2013
In: Barcelona, Future Perfect
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How the performance of a cellular network degrades with extremely high density/usage, such as Barcelona – Real Madrid at the 98,000 capacity Camp Nou, where …
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Hacking A Cellular Network

An interesting tech angle in the Libyan civil war is how local network Libyana has been subverted to carry communications traffic (mostly voice calls as …
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Mobile Money Afghanistan

From the Afghanistan Mobile Money research: &#187 Download Main Report: Mobile Money Afghanistan 2MB PDF &#187 Download Presentation: the Mobile Frontier 17MB Powerpoint &#187 Download 170 Free Photos/JPGs …
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Human, Mobile ATM

It might not look like it but the gent in blue jeans (above) is a human ATM, an agent that is sufficiently (but not overly) …
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Cairo Phone Kiosks

21 Aug 2007
In: Cairo, Cultural Norms
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And keeping with yesterday’s theme – a phone kiosk service using the Nokia 51xx phone – 0.50 Egypt Pounds (0.07 Euro) per minute. Typically the …
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Cellular Coverage & Exploratory Behaviour

23 Jul 2005
In: Design Inspiration, Mt. Fuji
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Txting from the summit of Mt Fuji. Despite, or perhaps because of being the tallest mountain in Japan – 3776 meters, someone decided to put base …
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