Tag Archives: Mobile Phones

Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: 2.1 billion short messages sent per day in 2009

Short messages (SMS) sent by Chinese people in 2009 rose 8.4 percent year-on-year to 784.04 billion, or 2.1 billion per day on average, the Beijing Times reported recently citing a source with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology [...]
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Internet in China: Internet population hit 384 million in 2009

China's population of Internet users jumped by nearly a third to 384 million at the end of 2009, an official report showed recently, just a few days after Google threatened to retreat from the expanding market [...]
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Internet in China: 3G brings mobile porn, China launches cleanup

Beijing has called for a cleanup of mobile porn Web sites nationwide on recently, with government officials blaming their rise on high-speed mobile data services enabled by the launch of new technology [...]
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Chinese People and their Mobile Phones: Over 180 million internet users access Internet via mobile phone

As of the end of August 2009, 181 million Chinese netizens were using mobile phones as wireless Internet access terminals and this number is steadily increasing, according to a report jointly issued by China Internet Network Information Center and CR-Nielsen [...]
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Autodesk Ships SketchBook Mobile App for iPhone, iPod Touch

Autodesk announced that Autodesk SketchBook Mobile, a new professional-grade paint and drawing app that offers a full set of sketching tools in a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch, is available on Apple's App Store [...]
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Internet in China: internet users top 338 million by June/2009

China had 338 million Internet users by the end of June/2009, up 40 million from the end of last year, according to a report released recently by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) [...]
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Watch Jan Chipchase’s “Our mobile phones” talk at TED

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. He's made some unexpected discoveries along the way [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10

http://twitpic.com/4wq8i – Manna Dinner Out: Indian Food at Lotus Land # http://twitpic.com/4wq2k – Illegal Parking in Shanghai will get you a ticket stuck (literally!) on your window # http://twitpic.com/4uce0 – DingBats Brazil Opening Night in Shanghai: Luciana Dias and “Eletrodome” # http://twitpic.com/4uaw3 – DingBats Brazil Opening Night in Shanghai: Grayson and “Cabra da Peste” # http://twitpic.com/4uafh – DingBats Brazil [...]
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Twitter Daily Updates for 2009-04-29

China issues regulation punishing statistical fouls (Officials who forge/cover up data in statistics, beware!) http://tinyurl.com/cqhg4g # [Interaction Design, Social Networkd] The Future of the Social Web: In Five Eras http://tinyurl.com/cbcmqo # [China] Classic tale: Peddler joins PhD program: It could be the plot of a Hollywood movie: A laid-off fa.. http://tinyurl.com/dly6jv # Operation “Hand in Thesis” is completed: [...]
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Erik Hersman’s “How texting and GoogleMaps helped Kenyans survive crisis” talk at TED

Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a Google Maps mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries [...]
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