Category Archives: Mobile Phones

The Least I Could Do To Prevent Theft

By Parker Mason | Published: December 7, 2009
Least I Could Do is a web comic by Lar Desouza and Ryan Sohmer that I really enjoy reading. They post very regularly—at least a couple of times a week—and they make their income from selling print books of the comics and through ads on the site. From what I can tell, Least I Could [...]
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Could game play at work actually improve engagement?

By Jens | Published: September 2, 2009
“Button” is a nice example of how games can be used to mentally stimulate people in order to keep them engaged in their mundane jobs. The game is as simple as it gets: there is a button on the screen and when it lights you push it. Explains Techcrunch: Blank Software will choose random times to light [...]
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The Convergence of Phones and Computers

By Parker Mason | Published: June 4, 2009
In what I would say is a very smart and practical move, it looks like Nokia is considering entering the laptop industry. Why does this move make sense? Because as Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasuvo says “we don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a mobile phone [...]
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iPhone Unpopular in Japan? I'm Not Surprised.

By Parker Mason | Published: May 27, 2009
The first time I ever owned a cell phone was when I moved to Japan to teach English in August of 2004. With the help of some friends, I picked out a phone that cost one yen (about one cent Canadian) with a fairly reasonable month plan. It was a flip phone with one large, very bright [...]
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