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How are tech companies responding to the communications challenges presented by natural and man-made disasters? 
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We used to share common resources with our communities. Now sharing is the word we use for paying a tech start-up to connect us with people to transact with
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Sarah T. Gold provides an excellent overview of the current state of personal data privacy (or, increasingly, the total lack of it) and imagines some possible solutions in her video ‘The Alternet': …the Alternet evolved as a superfiction, a creative proposal that blends fiction and real world structures, presenting organisations and the lives of invented …
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Explore the connection between development and enterprise, seeking to raise the next billion people into the middle class from the base of the economic pyramid (BoP) by bringing together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers and academics.
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Fire Chat has already been mentioned here in the context of enabling peer-to-peer networking during the recent protests in Hong Kong, now I am glad to see that they are planning to produce a device which will further empower this mesh networking concept: “Open Garden, the company behind FireChat, is taking mesh networking beyond our …
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Mobile payments pioneer mHITs has entered the bitcoin space with a platform it claims is the "easiest way" to send phone credit across borders.
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Best known as the open source Linux-based desktop operating system, Ubuntu is now coming to mobiles. It introduced a completely new user experience centered not around apps, but around "scopes." Wait, what?
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A mobile phone will not end poverty, but it will empower people to lift themselves out of poverty. And poverty is a root cause of conflict.
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By Lizzie Wade for Wired
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Much of the world's population now has access to a smartphone and social media websites. How has the technology helped spark revolutions around the world?
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NEW YORK: About 4.6 billion people have mobile phones out of a world population of 6.6 billion, according to a new mobile report by Ericsson Ericsson.
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In this powerful and indignant article, Aral Balkan – verging on ‘mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more‘ mode, exposes the nascent total surveillance state, what he calls ‘Spyware 2.0′ and their fraudulent ‘free’ services. He likens the exchange of convenient technology for personal data as tantamount to a theft of one’s soul, and the centralisation of all personal information into private hands as a classic enclosure of the Commons.
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Every night, something unusual happens in Samuel Kimani’s home on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Samuel, 48, lives with his wife Mary and their three children. Their family supports itself day-to-day through their main source of income, their cow Baraka, whose milk is collected daily and sold directly to customers for about $1.80 a day. Their township has few amenities and grid electricity is available only to the few who can afford it. But at Samuel’s house, two bright lights shine all through the evening.
RoxonElectrical's curator insight,
November 19, 2014 7:59 AM
How solar's bringing light into the lives of Samuel and his family in Kenya. |
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The creator of a popular free smartphone messaging app, which doesn't need a network signal and can't be blocked by governments, says he plans to turn it into a full mobile carrier that will never charge for calls or messages
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it Social Media Revolution 2015! This is a once in a life time opportunity. Remember Jack Ma and Mark Zuckerberg. Brilliant idea but all their invited friends ...
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The mobile networks make money by selling expensive data. Android, and the smartphones collect personal data on you. It is worthwhile therefore trying downloading an app that turns on your FM chip, and you can then use as an FM radio. Whether this will work on a tablet, I do not know, but it is worth giving it a try. As well as giving much better listening and saving on data, it also saves on battery life.
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As The Intercept reveals the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, Christopher Soghoian of the American Civil Liberties Union discusses the ways that people can securely communicate.
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Top 5 articles of the week: February 9 - 13. This week we talk about Human Hacking at SCALE 13X, the open hardware phenomenon, DevOps culture, reducing smartphone waste, and the new Ubuntu phone. Plus, we've got a new column on the site!
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Xiaomi could become a genuine rival to Apple even without coming to the US. But even if it doesn't, it could force changes in how smartphones work for everyone.
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With the current pace of mobile innovation, for many of us, a smartphone could become our only computer in the next two years.
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Users might end up sharing, trading, or even selling the little modules that make up the Ara phone.
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Can Google's search and display businesses compete as native in-stream advertising takes hold on mobile?
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How we communicate has changed radically in recent years and, with 62% of consumers now owning a smartphone, it’s time we stopped acknowledging the power of mobile and about time we did something a…
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