ITU's Digital Life just came out.


Image: ITU

Via Herald Sun's Mobile mania reigns from which I quote:

"As our identity becomes a commodity so does our privacy. And that's where we are entering a dangerous area, making privacy only available at a cost," she said.

Additional links, not tightly related:
Update: Understanding Mobile 2.0
Time For Wireless Carriers to 'Unlock' Customer Handsets
Russell about the same the unlocking of the mobile internet
Global Tech Insight 2006

Guess who said that:

We want to enter Africa, not through fixed-line Internet access but through mobile access. We think it would be easier if we worked with countries that work directly with these nations.

Here is the solution*:


Via Planet Mobile

* A simple text is encoded in this QR Code, so the whole resolution is done on the phone without any server connection.

PS: I will not comment the "how this is said".

The same blog rendered differently. Left: Original from Semapedia; right: Semapedia blog mobilized by Kaywa

From Semapedia blog: The Signs of our time

Or in clear words: We have changed our 2D code base to QR codes instead of Datamatrix codes so far. Of course, all Semapedia tags generated and distributed up to now STILL WORK and will always work. We consider experimenting with QR codes an interesting new approach because they offer several extended features than Datamatrix codes. Also, the adoption of QR codes with cellphone manufacturers and scanning software providers has increased dramatically in the past 6 months. Our goal is to connect the real and the virtual in a meaningful and beautiful way. Going with QR codes from here inherits the promise to have more people being able to use Semapedia Tags much faster than if they were based on the Datamatrix standard.