Tuesday, August 28, 2007
MOBILE TELEPHONY IN MOROCCO
The source: Maroc IThttp://www.maroc-it.ma/qui_sommes-nous.html
Un taux de pénétration de 57% pour le mobile
S’agissant de la téléphonie mobile, le taux de pénétration continue sa croissance soutenue en dépassant le seuil de 57% avec un parc d’abonnés global de plus de 17.700.000.
Néanmoins, le marché reste dominé par l’opérateur historique qui détient à peu près les deux tiers du parc mobile avec 66 % du marché contre 34 % pour son concurrent Medi Télécom. L’année 2008 marquera, certainement, un nouveau tournant pour le marché du mobile, avec l’arrivée d’un troisième acteur, en l’occurrence Wana.
En attendant, la structure d’abonnement au GSM au Royaume continue de stagner avec la dominance du pré-payé avec une part de plus de 95% contre 5% pour le post-payé.
Mobile phone throwing turns artistic
Finnish domination in the distance event continued when Tommi Huotari took gold with a throw of 89.62 meters (294 feet), a few short of the world record."I am sure everyone would like to throw their phone away every once in a while."
"I have never thrown a phone before but have been participating in potato-throwing ... surprisingly, a potato flies further," said the 38-year-old engineer.
SAVONLINNA, Finland - Juggling rather than throwing his mobile phone, a teenaged circus performer won the freestyle gold medal at the world championships on Saturday.
Taco Cohen of the Netherlands, who was celebrating his 19th birthday, used acrobatics and juggling in his performance which was judged on aesthetics and artistic impression.
He told Reuters his performance reflected his training in a youth circus. "Juggling I have done for many years with balls. (But) these are irregular shapes and weights, it is difficult."
Thursday, August 23, 2007
لقاءات"حميمية"لشبان وفتيات سعوديين بفضل "الحزام الإلكتروني"
قاموا بابتكار وسائل هذا العالم السري باستغلال التقنيات الحديثة، حيث أمكنهم استخدام خاصية "البلوتوث" في تبادل أرقام الهواتف، وكذلك اظهار هذه الأرقام في التجمعات والأسواق وأمام المدارس بواسطة ما يسمى "الحزام الالكتروني"، إضافة إلى وضع مدونات على الانترنت مدعومة بالصور والمعلومات الشخصية.
وأكد نائب المدير العام لهيئات الأمر بالمعروف بمنطقة الرياض الشيخ عثمان العثمان لـ"العربية.نت" وجود قضايا تعامل معها جهاز الهيئة مثل بث صور فتيات عبر البلوتوث ونشرها في الانترنت من قبل شباب للتشهير بهن، وفتيات تم تهديدهن بعد الحصول على صورهن و قال إن "طريقة وصول الشباب إلى الفتيات تتم عبر تبادل الأرقام بواسطة البلوتوث أو التعارف في الانترنت".
Monday, August 20, 2007
'Mobile Media 2007' proceedings now available
Mobile Media
an international conference
on social and cultural aspects of
mobile phones, convergent media, and wireless technologies
2-4 July 2007
The University of Sydney
Australia
Barely twenty-five years since their commercial introduction, mobile cellular phones are widely used around the world. Having become an important technology for voice and text communication in the daily lives of billions of people, mobiles are now recognised as central not only for communications but also for contemporary transformations in cultural and social practices, and in new developments in computing, media, telecommunications, Internet, and entertainment.
Equipment manufacturers, cultural and content producers, and user groups and creative communities are now focussing on the possibilities of mobile media – with mobiles and wireless technologies, platforms, services, applications, and cultural forms being designed, manufactured, and reconfigured as convergent media.
Various forms of mobile media have been imagined for sometime, and are now a reality: mobile Internet, new forms of mobile text, mobile music, mobile film and video, mobile games, mobile learning, mobile media for the workplace, videotelephony, and mobile television. This relatively short history of mobile telephony is concurrently marked by the shift of the role of users from consumers to active producers – and mobile media is being heralded as a new site for consumption, democratic expression, individualism, citizenship, and creativity.
In this international conference we aim to comprehensively analyse and debate mobile media – exploring its emerging structures, features, practices, value chains, producers and audiences, delving into its social, cultural, aesthetic and commercial implications, and debating its futures.
The conference will feature leading scholars including Genevieve Bell (Intel), Stuart Cunningham (Queensland University of Technology), Shin Dong Kim (Hallym University), Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Undine), Leslie Haddon (London School of Economics), Dong Hoo Lee (Incheon University), Rich Ling (Telenor), Shin Mizukoshi (University of Tokyo), Raul Pertierra (Ateneo de Manila and University of Philippines), Misa Matsuda (Chuo University) and Judy Wajcman (Australian National University).
We also invite papers on all aspects of mobile media, including, but certainly not restricted to:
- what does it mean to talk about mobiles as media?
- how do we map and theorise the transformations underway with mobile platforms, applications, and networks?
- mobile art
- mobiles and photography
- emerging cultural and narrative forms for mobiles (such as mobile films and videos)
- intersections between mobiles and Internet technologies
- wireless technologies and cultures
- mobile television, radio, and other kinds of broadcasting
- video calling and communications
- sexuality, intimacy, and mobile media
- mobile media and national or regional cultures
- subcultures, minority cultures, majoritarian cultures, and mobile media
- how do issues such as gender, sexuality, disability, socio-economics, cultural and linguistic contexts continue to inflect differing practices in the far-from-even-and-even terrain of mobiles?
- mobile media and political economy
- mobile gaming
- what are the implications of mobile media for our concepts of culture, communication, and media
- mobiles, community, and public sphere
- mobile media, place and space
- ramifications of mobile media for creative, cultural and media industries
- challenges of mobile media for policy, regulation, and legislation.