This Week in Global Mobile | April 29, 2011
At times it's difficult to keep pace with the latest global mobile developments. I hope this selection of news stories from the past week will help you navigate the growing global network of connectivity:
- On Wednesday the State Department, working with the U.S. Institute for Peace, participated in a summit with global youth to determine how technology can “scale exchanges around the world.”
- Sony threw its hat into the tablet PC market, announcing two Android-based portable devices set to do what Motorola’s Xoom couldn’t and offset Apple’s iPad.
- Korea’s Communications Commission launched an inquiry to Apple over privacy concerns about the company’s data collection and storage methods.
- Uganda’s government announced that it would focus on “true ICT infrastructure development” in order to augment its process of economic development.
- The World Economic Forum published the 2010-2011 Global Information Technology Report [PDF], which sports a “Networked Readiness Index” ranking of 138 countries.
- 500 million people around the world will use their mobile devices to purchase public transportation tickets by 2015, reported Juniper Research.
- Google exec and TIME “Top-100 most influential person” Wael Ghonim announced plans to start an Egyptian technology-based NGO to “help fight poverty and foster education” in Egypt.
- In the U.K., fraudulent wi-fi hotspots are exposing a security flaw for smart phone users seeking public access to the Web, reported The Guardian in an investigative story.
- Indian Web users expressed dismay at new access restriction rules [PDF] announced by the government’s Department of Information Technology.
- President Kagame of Rwanda announced plans to field questions submitted online by people around the world in a YouTube interview which will air May 7.
- 44 billion apps will be downloaded by 2016 around the world, according to a study released this week by ABI Research.
- India enjoyed a 600 percent surge in online video viewing in March, with 75 percent of the country’s entire online population tuning in.
- To help residents prepare for potentially life-threatening tornadoes in the United States this week, live video streams and Twitter feeds were used by various organizations to reduce damage.
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