September 2008
Monthly Archive
Moving toward free mobile calls
It seems not that many years ago, when phone calls from mobile phones were short, not just because of the price, but because the handsets were so heavy it was impossible to hold a conversation longer than a few minutes.
While there is much talk of the electronic economy, mostly this is related to the internet (AKA data traffic) and the WWW (AKA ecommerce). But of course there is that other, perhaps more subtle digital economy and that is the mobile economy.
For years we have been hampered by high mobile phone call costs, high mobile data charges and poor profit share from premium SMS services . This has combined to limit mobiles as an integral part of the digital economy.
New Google browser – not so mch gold as Chrome
During my occassional rummage through the forums I came across this post and one line in it that really does not ring true for me.
Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser
So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.
What Google happily admits to is taking the ideas (and one assumes the code as well) from other internet browsers (including the open-source browser, FireFox) and creating Chrome, the all new bells and whistles internet browser.
Now here is the rub – they are also asking the software development community to pitch in and help take the new browser from the just released beta into the first stable version.
