Me lo ha suggerito Raul Chiesa e devo dire che e' gradevole, leggero e con spunti interessanti.
Sulla lentezza di crescita del mobile: " Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTF), then a public
corporation, launched a cellular service around Tokyo, and a smaller one around Osaka, in 1979 -
among the first commercial cell phones in the world. But ten years later, only 0.15 per cent of the
population had bought the deal."
Sugli SMS: "Wot is kltr? Kltr is the clln of sgns spcfc to a sosIET. evry tek hs a kltr of its own. a kltr cn b hrd 2 undrstnd 2 outsdrs. ther is no bttr illstrn of ths thn txt msgs. Txt msg ws an acidnt. no1 expcted it. Whn th 1st txt mesg ws sent, in 1993 by Nokia eng stdnt Riku Pihkonen, the telcom cpnies thought it ws nt important. SMS - Short Message Service - ws nt considrd a majr pt of GSM. Like mny teks, the *pwr*
of txt - indeed, the *pwr* of the fon - wz discvrd by usrs. In the case of txt mssng, the usrs were the yng or poor in the W and E"
"[nelle filippine] Text messages played a key role in ousting Estrada. In late 200, rumours spread as quickly as fingers could text true, exaggerated and imagined stories of Estrada corruption. Over 1(X) million text messages flew around the Philippines each day. it started with jokes such as: 'The NPA [Communist rebels] have kidnapped Erap (Estrada's nickname; it means 'buddy' backwards in Tagalog, the Philippines' main language]. They are demanding a large ransom and, if it is not paid, they are threatening to release their hostage.' (To illustrate the indiscriminate power of text, another hoax
announcing the death of the Pope was also passed on by millions.)
As push came to shove, people were texted: 'edsa. edsa: everybody converge on edsa' - Edsa being
the shrine that was the focus of the challenge to Estrada. While it was only after his cabinet
had defected to the opposition, and the army and the police had transferred allegiance, that Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo was swept to the presidency in January 2001, it was also 'People Power' brought
together by text messaging that forced them to shift.
Macapagal-Arroyo immediately acted to ban 'malicious, profane, and obscene' texts, which
offered some protection against her predecessor's fate, but she has not been allowed to forget the
power of text. "
"The Sun devoted ten pages to a taped converstion between Diana, princess of Wales and James Gilbey, revealing the two to be lovers. The royal marriage. already strained, was in tatters. In December, in the same month that Windsor Castle burned, the prime minister, John Mayor, announced the divorce of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the House of Commons. The source of the Sun's revelations, the so called 'Squidgy' tapes (named after Gilbey's pet name for Diana), had been recorded by eavesdropping the Princess's mobile phone".
L'innovazione viene dai piccoli: "The 3210 was also the first Nokia phone to carry T9, a predictive text system developed by a small company called Tegic, which shoehorned the equivalent of a full alphabetic
keyboard on to just a number pad. The phone contained a dictionary and software for searching it, which was possible because the mobile contained a microprocessor."
La SIM e' una parte importante della nostra vita: "In July 2001, after four years on the run, the authorities finally caught up in the Philippines with Alfred Sirven, a French businessman wanted as part of the investigations into the Elf corruption scandal. At the moment of arrest, Sirven realised the potentially incriminating evidence he held on his person. James Tasoc, of the National Bureau of Investigation in the Philippines, described what happened next: 'He munched up the chip of his mobile like chewing gum. He broke it with his teeth".
Il futuro del cellulare: (meno telefono e piu' Pocket Computer) "The mobile is in danger on
three fronts: technological change might add so many new features, benefiting from greater data-
handling capacities, that it might barely act like a phone. Its own flexibility will destroy it."
Gi usi di una tecnologa sono quelli che trovano gli utenti, non il marketing, pero' il marketing adesso lo sa e ci conta: "The launch of 3G has witnessed a curious, reflexive twist on a familiar pattern in the history of communication technologies: the way that the typical 'use' of a technology has often been the one discovered by users rather than that anticipated by producers. So, for example, Marconi thought radio would be primarily a means of sending code, not voice (indeed, he called it 'wireless telegraphy'). Producers of early telephones sold them as one-way ordering devices, not the instruments of trivial twoway chatter. Both email and text-messaging were afterthoughts, mere secondary applications in the eyes of the designers of packet-switching and digital cellular networks. In all four of these cases, it was users who discovered the typical pattern of use. As 3G-type services like video messaging were added to phones, it seemed that for the first time in the history of communication technologies, the producers were not only aware of this pattern, but were also banking on it appearing again."
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