mobile [is52026b social computing - week 14]

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IS52026 Social ComputingWeek 14: mobile

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Goandroid"Back up the files on your phone, then perform afactory data reset. That will dump all of yoursettings, data, and apps. Then you'll just avoidsigning in with your Google account and downloada non-Google app store. You can disable Google'slocation service, set another default search engine,add a mail client from a non-Google vendor, loadthe settings and profile data Google has allowedyou to export into your new apps, and you've beenwell and truly de-Googled."

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/02/01/google-privacy-policy-tos/2/


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QUESTION: how has mobile changed your behaviour?(can you even remember or imagine life without one?)Mobile is at the forefront of rethinking communication. Butin order to understand its potential we need to lookbeyond the SMS's, the appvertising and the text voting.We need to stop thinking of mobile as a technology and atool, and look at it through the eyes of people and theirbehavioral abilities; because its people, not features, thatshould drive innovation in communication.

The chip implant in the back of our neck, or inside theretina, might be some decades away, but mobile isalready offering a lot of the functionality presented in sci-fimovies as a remote control to communicate and respondto future connected environments.http://www.180360720.no/index.php/archive/12-reasons-to-rethink-mobile/


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Picture: Nicole Cleary

QUESTION: who sleeps with their phone?QUESTION: would you spend your last $10 on foodor a phone top-up?"600/0 of young people sleep with their phone""800/0 would spend their last $10 on topping up theirphone ...rather than on food"http://www. mobileyo uth.o rg/re port/


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Fastest-Growinu Content Categories via Application Access3 Month Avg. Emlinu Allf. 2010vs. 3 Month Avg. Emlino Apr.2009Total U.S.Age 13+Source: cemscere MobiLens

Total Audience (0001Allplication Access Apr-2009 Allr-2010 %Category ChangeTotal Audience: 13+ yrs 232,000 234,000 1oldUsed applicat ion (except 54,414 69,639 28native games)Social Networking 4,270 14,518 240News 4,148 9,292 1 2 4Sports Information 3,598 7,672 113Bank Accounts 2,340 4,974 113Weather 8,557 18,063 111Movie Information 3,296 6,359 93Maps 8,708 16,773 93.Online Retail 1,416 2,701 91Photo or Video Sharing 3,131 5,950 90ServiceSearch 5,434 10,315 90

In A pril, 69.6 m illion mobile users accessed an applicationon their phone, an increase of 28 percent from theprevious year. S ocial netw orking had the strongestgrowth in app access, increasing 240 percent to 14.5m illion users. A ccessing new s apps follow ed, grow ing124 percent to 9.3 m illion users, while sports appsjum ped 113 percent to nearly 7.7 m illion users. Bankaccount apps also m ore than doubled their audience,grow ing to nearly 5 m illion users.

Nearly 73 m illion m obile users accessed their brow ser inApril, an increase of 31 percent from the previous year.S ocial netw orking ranked as the fastest-grow ing categoryaccessed via browser, grow ing 90 percent from theprevious year to reach almost 30 m illion users, follow edby Bank Accounts (69 percent to 13.2 m illion users).http: / /www.webpronews.com/mobile-social-networking-grows-240-2010-06


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@kathiiberensKathi Inman Berens

#COMM499 credo: "If you're not checkingyr devices in class, yr network is notinteresting enough." Learn 2 #multitask.@USCAnnenberg #ascj1 Feb via TweetDeck fJ Favorite t:lRetweet +, ReplyMentioned in this Tweet

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http://www.mxit.com/homeIn Egypt Facebook and Twitter did playa modest andsignificant supporting role, but in South Africa themobile app MXit would probably have been thepreferred tool, linking as it does 27 million users.MXit (pronounced "mix it") is a free instant messagingapplication developed by MXit Lifestyle (Pty) Ltd. inSouth Africa that runs on multiple mobile andcomputing platforms. Along with its own standardprotocol, it can connect to Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk,Facebook, AIM, or Windows Live Messengercontacts as well.
http://www.mxit.com/homehttp://www.mxit.com/home


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South Africa had about 5.2 million people living with HIV and AIDSin 2009, more than any other country[i] HIV prevalence for youthaged 2-14 years is 5.6%, and for those 15-24 years it is 9.3%[ii]

Mobile text-chat is an ideal way of providing HIV counselling: it'scheap for users; people can get counselling from anywhere (liketheir bedroom); it's efficient for providers (as counsellors cancounsel many people at the same time); and it's an appropriateway of getting youth to talk about HIVTraining counsellors to understand "chat" language allowed themto communicate on the same level as the users. Once they wereused to text-based counselling, they were able to handle up to10+ conversations at the same time. Also, due to the lesspersonal nature of chat, counsellors found that users would getto the point far quicker.http://www.cell-Iife.org/communicate/mxit-counselling-red-and-redchatzonehttp://mobileactive.org/case-studies/red-chat
http://mobileactive.org/case-studies/red-chathttp://mobileactive.org/case-studies/red-chat


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QUESTION: how could a mobile be useful in health &healthcare?#Mobile phones are being tried and tested in myriadways in health care. They are used for datacollection and disease surveillance, for ensuringtreatment compliance, for managing healthinformation systems and point-of-care support, forhealth promotion and disease prevention, and fordelivering emergency medical services. Clearly, m-health, as this growing field is dubbed, is here tostay.http://mobileactive.org/mobile-money-for-health
http://mobileactive.org/mobile-money-for-healthhttp://mobileactive.org/mobile-money-for-health


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"A growing number of developers are tapping into atreasure trove of U.S. government healthcare dataand coming up with innovative iPhone apps thathelp consumers make better medical decisions,"http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/better-mobile-healthcare-decis. htm IVIDEOhttp://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/better-mobile-healthcare-decis. htm I00:40


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(Copyright Sproxil)

This is how it works: Person buys drugs. Person scratchesa sticker on the bottle or packet to reveal a 12 digitpseudorandom number, then sends it to an SMSshortcode (a five digit number). Person gets an SMSresponse about whether the drugs are good or not.In that time, the 12 digit number has been routed from thelocal telecom to servers in the United States, hosted byAmazon. It gets checked against the database, and theyget a response SMS telling them whether they shouldreturn the drugs, or ingest them.The cost of the service is footed by drug companies, whobenefit both from preventing pirates from counterfeitingtheir wares, and maintaining their brand reputation (infantdeaths linked to your brand is not good for business).

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/business/fig hting-fake-drugs-with-sms-45912.htmlhttp://www.sproxil.com/
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researchers there have created nanosensors--injected like a tattoojust under the skin--that fluoresce under a special light source,indicating the patient's glucose levels, according to a report inMIT's Technology Review.

The developers also created an iPhone attachment that providesthree-way LED lighting under which the nanosensors fluoresce,and takes an image of the fluorescence. That image istransmitted to a computer program for analysis, the Reviewexplains. More fluorescence indicates the patient has more ofthe target compound in his or her bloodstream.

Researchers now are working an app to enable the reader deviceitself to analyze the level of fluorescence, so that clinicians couldmake determinations at the bedside, rather than having to exportthe information to another computer, Heather Clark, team leaderfor the project, tells the Review. They're also tweaking theenergy source, hoping to get rid of the device's existing nine-voltbattery, and possibly even tap the smartphone's own power torun it.

http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/iphone-add-enables-glucose-tracking-nanosensor -tattoo/2011-07 -21


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hup:llpritamkabe.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/the-mobile-money-m-pesa-phenomenon-in-kenya/

M-PESA Customers can deposit and withdraw money from anetwork of agents that includes airtime resellers and retailoutlets acting as banking agents. M-PESA is operated bySafaricom, a Mobile network operator (MNO), which is notclassed as a deposit-taking institution (such as a bank).Therefore, M-PESA may not be advertised as a banking service

M-PESA was first launched by the Kenyan MNO Safaricom, anaffiliate of Vodafone, in March 2003.[3] M-PESA quickly captureda significant market share for cash transfers, and grewastoundingly quickly, capturing 6.5 million subscribers by May2009 with 2 million daily transactions in Kenya alone. As ofNovember 2011, M-PESA has over 14 million subscribers andwell over 28,000 agents across the country. [1]

. In December 2008, a group of banks reportedly lobbied theKenyan finance minister to audit M-PESA, in an effort to at leastslow the growth of the service. This ploy failed, as the auditfound that the service was robust.https:/Ien.wikipedia.org/wikilM-Pesa


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We just made rnoble money smarterKopo Kopo has made it easy for businesses to accept mobile money payments

"The real competitive advantage that Kenya has is inthe payment space," says Hersman. "There are allthese people doing stuff in the money space,because of MPesa. W hen you mix that with thenatural entrepreneurial culture in K enya, you startto see some exciting and innovative tech startupsforming."

http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37877/?a=f

KopoK opo lets businesses accept m obile payments.http://kopokopo.com/?page_id=201

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http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37http://kopokopo.com/?page_id=201http://kopokopo.com/?page_id=201http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37


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Could Tiny Somali land Become the First Cashless Society?SHOW http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/05/guest-post-could-tiny-somaliland-become-the-first-cashless-society/inc VIDEO

"My colleagues have in the past been found in veryembarrassing and incriminating situations, eitherconcealing the cash under stones near the check pointsor in their pockets."Currently, one of us is assigned the duty of loading thecollected cash in his mobile phone account every timethe collection surpasses Shl,OOO," said an officer basedin South Nyanza who asked not to be named due tosensitivity of the matter.http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/l056/813282/-/vnh5px/-/index.htrnl
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VIDEOhttp://www.pathintelligence.com/en/products/footpath/footpath-technology

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/04/shopping-centre-tracking-system-condemned?newsfeed=true
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QUESTION: name some mobile operating systemsOn February 11, 2011, Nokia announced that it wouldmigrate away from Symbian to Windows Phone 7http://www.oss-watch.ac .ukleve nts/20 11-03-29_Open_Source_Junction/programme.xmlhttp://www.slideshare.net/jhugman/make-cross-platform-apps-that -suck-less
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http://blog.whatitslikeontheinside.com/201010S/introducing-google-appinventor. htmlhttp://appinventoredu.mit.edu/I've taught beginning programming for years and there area lot of smart, creative students who get bogged downwith the syntax and cryptic error messages you get whenyou type in code. They come to computer science excitedabout technology and immediately face these weird,frustrating mechanics.With App Inventor, beginners can build really cool appswithin hours. Instead of typing code, you plug puzzlepieces together. They only fit together if they're supposedto. Instead of remembering and typing commands, youchoose from the high-level functions (puzzle pieces)provided. And your first programs aren't printing "helloworld" on the screen - they're reading the GPS sensoror sending a text to a group of friends.
http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/


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If I weren't so busy teaching, I'd start a prototyping and mobile appcompany based on App Inventor right now. The company wouldtake in ideas and use App Inventor to turn them into interactive,working prototypes within hours. App Inventor is that good, andturn-around time is that fast. I wouldn't be restricted to hiring onlyexperienced, expert programmers.I've had a number of students transition from my App Inventorcourse to a course based on Python and they've thrived. It helpsto have a firm basis on the concepts, and because they've hadsuccess and built some cool apps with App Inventor, they'remotivated and ready to tackle programming with a text-basedlanguage.I've had a number of students transition from my App Inventorcourse to a course based on Python and they've thrived. It helpsto have a firm basis on the concepts, and because they've hadsuccess and built some cool apps with App Inventor, they'remotivated and ready to tackle programming with a text-basedlanguage.http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/google-app-inventor-programmers-mobile-apps. html


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http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/11/01/akirachix-win-kes-l-million-in-ipo48-with-m-farmlThe all-girl team of M-Farm won the bootcampweekend competition after 48 hours of seriousprogramming and very little sleep.M-Farm startup focuses on helping small farmers getthe much needed information for distribution of theirproducts to the market. The mobile application willallow a farmer get real time price informationwithout having to deal with brokers, sell theproducts through mobile phone, get weather alerts,connect with other farmers, find nearest farm storesand get help from farm experts.

also VIDEOhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggeRULHouU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/11/01/akirachixhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?http://www.youtube.com/watch?http://www.moseskemibaro.com/2010/11/01/akirachix


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http://www.springwise.com/food _beverage/harvestmark/A recent example of an integrated approach to fresh foodtraceability is HarvestMark's partnership with The KrogerCompany (2,468 supermarkets in 31 states). Kroger's privatelabel produce brands now feature sixteen-digit codes byHarvestMark, allowing consumers to find out where their foodwas grown, when it was packed, how it should be stored, etc.

HarvestMark - a Redwood City-based provider of food trackingsolutions - offers a free iPhone app that lets shoppers accessinformation straight from the store, using their phone's camera toscan a product's barcode. Alternatively, they can access theinformation from the company's homepage. And in the event of aproduct recall, consumers can quickly check whether the food intheir fridge is affected. Kroger is the first retailer to offerHarvestMark on its private label brands.
http://www.springwise.com/foodhttp://www.springwise.com/food


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also sicamp barcode wikpediahttp://www.sicamp.org/si-camp-uk/previous-camps/submitted-ideas/wibiitl


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QUESTION: price of an android smartphone inkenya?Smart phones surged in popularity in February afterSafaricom, Kenya's dominant telecom, beganoffering the cheapest smart phone yet on themarket-an Android model called Ideos from theChinese maker Huawei, which has been makinginroads in the developing world. In Kenya, theprice, approximately $80, was low enough to winmore than 350,000 buyers to date.http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37877/?a=f
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37


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QUESTION: price of an android tablet for students in india?India's $35 Android tablet, the Aakash,The 7-inch Android-based device will be distributed at agovernment subsidized price of $35, making it the world'scheapest Android device. The general retail price will be$60, which is still remarkably cheap for such a powerfuldevice.Now imagine the educational potential of the world's lowest-cost tablet being unleashed to hundreds of millionsIndians eager to join the world economy. At the heart ofthe Aakash tablet is an HD video co-processor that willconnect viewers to one of the largest educational librariesever assembled: YouTube. When the Aakash tabletreaches villages across India, an entire generation willhave instant access to rich educational content such asthe Khan Academy, and anything else their hearts desire.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/hands-on-indias-35-


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Mobile phones could well turn out to be revolutionaryamong Russian reindeer nomads. Novelty is that mobilesbring to Tundra 'real-time interactive private oralcommunication', p. 52.Mobiles require little energy, and herders already had smallportable power generators for lighting years ago, p. 62.Phones carried under their parkas (malitsa), close tobody; this protects batteries from winter cold, p. 62Elena interesting remark: 'There is nothing to talk aboutwhen you visit your neighbours' - coz now can keep upwith news and gossip via mobiles, p. 631. Male herder said you can now be with herd and on yourway home and tell wife to 'heat the stove and brew somefresh tea', p. 63.2. Reindeer herdering union's HQ could coordinateslaughters, timing, supplies, meat delivery to oil companysettlement, etc, all via mobiles, p. 64http://mobilelivelihoods.wordpress.com/2010105/10/mobile-phone-revolution-in-the-tundra!


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