Symbian is the DOS of mobile phones. The ubiquitous operating system sits snugly behind 110 million Symbian smartphones), according to the Symbian website. Ten years ago, Symbian was formed as a private company owned by then trendsetters Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion – the UK based company that developed Symbian originally. As things stand today, [...]
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Nokia KO’s OS+handset mobile combination
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Android, DOS, Google Android, iPhone, Microsoft's Windows Mobile, MID, MOAP, Mobile Internet Device, S60, Smartphone, smartphones, Symbian, Symbian Foundation, The Open Handset Alliance, Ubuntu, UIQ
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From Vision Journalism to Citizen Paparazzi
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, NarrativesTags: Citizen Journalism, Citizen Paparazzi, Communication, Highway Africa, Hypergene, Journalist of Tomorrow, Lomo, Lomo Kompakt, Lomography, Marketing, MCM, Media, New Media, participatory journalism, Rhodes University, Robin Parker, School of Journalism & Media Studies, Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis, Smartphone, The ten golden rules of Lomography, We Media
Being in the MCM (Media/Communication/Marketing) business gives one an opportunity to observe the way ideas develop – from germination in some theory geek’s mind, to a conference, or series of conferences, or publications, or all of the above, then to academia, and then, sometimes, through to business.