Saving the Broadband Economy. The Wireless Communications Association (WCA) is currently working to prevent Congressional funding cuts to the Rural Utilities Service broadband loan program, part of the Farm Bill of 2002. WCA's Rural Broadband Task Force is seeking to restore the Farm Bill program, which allocated $1.4 billio... [DailyWireless]

Mobiles Outnumber Fixed-line Phones

"In 2002, for the first time, the number of mobile phones worldwide outnumbered fixed-line phones, according to the ITU....

In less developed countries in Asia and South America, where fixed-line infrastructure is underdeveloped, mobile phones are the most economic means of communication, and as a result there has been massive mobile phone growth in these countries. This is likely to continue for some time.

According to the ITU only 36.35% of the world’s population had a phone in 2002, up from 28.74% in 2000. What is striking, however, is that the adoption of mobile phones is having a major impact on the total teledensity throughout the world. At the rate of mobile phone growth worldwide, 50% of the world's population will have access to a phone by 2005." [eMarketer]

So as mobile phone ownership (or access) increases, how will libraries serve these patrons? What do remote library services look like when viewed through a cell phone rather than a desktop computer?

[The Shifted Librarian]

Silicon Valley Reboot - Executive Recyclers Rule. (SOURCE:Moore's Lore: new technology. Computing, connectivity, mobile, convergence, communications, software, etc.)- Nothing wrong with the executive recyclers ruling; just need to somehow give the geek dreamers some time and space to dream and produce the next revolution.

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So, in fact, geeks don't rule. It's the executive recyclers who rule. That's a good story, but it's not a cool headline. If the editors who ordered this piece had read what they were given, instead of putting on their blinkers, they would have given readers something really new and fresh.

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[Roland Tanglao: HowToDevelopSoftware]