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Sunday, February 29, 2004

Pew Internet: "44% of Internet users have created content for the online world through building or posting to Web sites, creating blogs, and sharing files." [Scripting News]
11:36:07 PM      Google It!.

Born to Be Mobile.

Half the World to Have Mobile Phones by 2015

"Four billion people, or half the world's population, will communicate using mobile phones by 2015, up from the 1.3 billion or so who have them now, the industry's top executive predicted on Wednesday.

By 2008, the world will already have two billion mobile users, said Jorma Ollila, chairman and chief executive of Finland's Nokia, which makes about two out of every five name-brand handsets worldwide....

Most of the growth in the mobile phone industry will come for basic voice communications in emerging markets, especially China, India, Indonesia, Brazil and Russia, he said.

China outpaced the U.S. as the world's largest market for mobile phones almost two years ago....

Ollila of Nokia said that, in developed countries where the proportion of the population using mobile phones is already high, wireless communications will overtake fixed-line communications in terms of the volume of voice call traffic.

This is already the case in Italy, the Czech Republic and Portugal, he said." [Reuters, via Daily Palm]

[The Shifted Librarian]
11:34:08 PM      Google It!.

Detailed study of institutional repositories. Mark Ware, Pathfinder Research on Web-based Repositories: Final Report, Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions, January 2004. A study of 45 institutional repositories (IR's) and several IR-related projects such as DSpace, Eprints, DARE, and SHERPA. The report studies the problems facing IR's, their various uses at different institutions, the benefits for hosting institutions, the costs of creating and maintaining them, institutional policies that would help them succeed, publisher policies toward them, and the quantity and kinds of content they currently contain.

Excerpt: "A short survey of publishers was conducted to take a snapshot of their attitudes towards IRs. Some 45% think that IRs will have a significant impact on scholarly publishing, but almost as many (38%) don't know. Significantly, three-quarters think that the impact will either be neutral or there will be no impact. The stances towards IRs were split between 'wait and see' (38%) and active experimentation (42%). Publishers appeared fairly relaxed about pre-prints but much more concerned about self-archiving of final published papers. Interestingly, while 55% permit authors to self-archive, some 12% said they currently permit but expect to tighten restrictions to exclude IRs. (Page 35)." [Open Access News]


11:33:08 PM      Google It!.

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