FCOL, Saul Hansell
By far, Saul Hansell is one of the coolest writers for the NYT bits blog– when he doesn’t act like a total JERK, that is. The jerk attitude comes out […]
Category Archives: ::Mobile Culture::
Digital Brats
I feel that communications technologies- as they become more advanced- are not making human beings more sophisticated, but rather nurturing immaturity and insolence. I am only speaking from a communications […]
Texting during a video conversation.
Yesterday, I was waiting to meet someone at Pasgucci and was looking around, bored. I noted unsurprisingly, that half the people were on their cell phones. I was intrigued, however, by […]
The newest trackers are electronic
When the Lee family’s 80-year-old senile grandfather would wander out of their house in Myeongil-dong, eastern Seoul, the family often had trouble finding him. So when a new location detection […]
Readers on the move making switch to e-books
Falling sales of printed books don’t necessarily mean people are reading less. In fact, with better technology in cell phones and portable media players, the market for electronic books and […]
Getting carried away with new portables
Companies are always trying to find new categories in which to lump consumers, so that they can get a sense of who they’re targeting when developing and selling new products. […]
Some spamming can save lives
Joo Ah-young, a 15-year-old with a mental handicap, was separated from her parents on an outing, and was missing for 15 days before the police decided to take another approach […]
Mobile services sizzle in the summer months
Mobile phone service providers are seeing a jump in business thanks to the summer season. During summertime, people have been using more global roaming service, as well as more data […]
D. Yvette Wohn 