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If you’re a fan of Tom Friedman’s "The World is Flat" as I am, you might find the following paragraph from a Wired article about the purchase of IBM’s PC division by the Chinese company Lenovo interesting. To me it sums up Friedman’s book in a few sentences. Yet there’s more afoot here than the sale of an American icon ...

An article in Wired says some cell phone makers see a big, big opportunity in cheap, simple cell phones that will sell for @$20. The GSM Association, a trade group for mobile operators using GSM technology, meanwhile, has also sparked a race to the bottom of the price scale with its Emerging Market Handset Programme. Acting on behalf of operators ...

In a previous post I mentioned "continuous computing" and the "information field." Well, it seems to me that the best tool for the kind of engagement described there is not a laptop computer but a cell phone. Here’s a couple recent indicators. Of course, the use of cell phone pictures and video in the London bombings and other news.And this ...

Cell phones: They’re now constant companions for 1.7 billion people worldwide. According to market research firm IDC, more than 690 million phones were shipped in 2004 alone. In the first quarter of 2005, vendors shipped 8.4 million "converged mobile devices," meaning phones that also function as PDAs and can run many types of software applications—an increase of 134 percent over ...