Read your paper on your phone!

You can now save the local paper by making it mobile. The publishers can create mobile Web sites, and readers can read on their phones! Verve Wireless (the creaters of this) or the newspaper then sell ads on those sites.

The Associated Press, McClatchy, and the New York Times Regional Media Group are already in the game.

Will that be made available in Sri Lanka?

Read more on NYT

Mobile Phone Use in Sri Lanka

“Everyone is carrying hand phones these days,” he complained. “The plumber, door-to-door salesmen — and even the paan kaaraya.” Nalaka Gunawardene

Get the story on mobile phone usage, technologies and developments as well as regulations by Nalaka Gunawardena, a respected commentator on ICTs, media and development in Sri lanka

img: lightmillenium.org

Mobile Phones and the Travel Industry

"Corporate travel managers are aware that mobile tecnnology is the future of business travel yet few have done anything about it. The travel technology company interviewed 72 travel managers across the world for its Upwardly Mobile survey, 100% of whom said that the “tracking and communication of travellers for security purposes” was the major advantage of mobile phones.

Some 98% said the mobile was an important tool to tell travelling staff of security alerts in times of crisis and 92% said they liked the fact that the technology allowed travellers to get GPS directions. A further 88% said they appreciated that mobiles could now allow staff to make and amend travel plans on the move, boosting compliance levels. "

More on http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1130029.php

How many sri lankan uses are on Roaming...? Is it affordable... I think so. With the point schemes availble you could go buy LOADS of stuff after your trip!

SMART Freedom for Sri Lanka

The latest deal by Mobitel : free M2M voice calls, free M2M video calls and free M2M SMS’s.

Can this be real? God sent? er... guess its Mobitel sent.....

SMART FREEDOM tariff options:

1) Daily Rental for ‘ 1 Day of M2M Freedom ‘ is Rs. 50/- + applicable taxes & levies

2) Weekly Rental for ‘ 7 Days of M2M Freedom ‘ is Rs. 270/- + applicable taxes & levies

During the time period that SMART Freedom is activated, the following M2M benefits will apply:
FREE (24 hours of the day) outgoing & incoming M2M voice calls*
FREE (24 hours of the day) outgoing & incoming M2M video calls*
FREE (24 hours of the day) outgoing M2M SMS*
FREE (24 hours of the day) incoming calls from any network*

HMMM not bad at all. Think I'll get one and check it out....

Interested? Get it at SMART Freedom

3G to raise user number to 1.7 billion by 2013

img credits: Martin from Cartoon Stock

The number of subscribers using mobile Internet services will rise from 577 million currently, to top 1.7bn by 2013

This is apparently due to : 'an open environment in which users are able to share, collaborate and exploit content/information without any one party controlling the value chain'.

3G rocks!?!?

more...

A Green Phone!!!!

No its not colured GREEN

Its an eco friendly phone- as in -energy efficient charging via solar power!

How cool is that?


This phone has a chemical based solar panel that automatically charges phone when exposed to light.

For more info look at Eclipse intuit concept phone