Tag Archives: mobile phone

Blood in our mobiles

Corporate social responsibility has had a great impact on businesses the last decade. In light of this awareness, the Dutch television station VARA aired an episode last week of ‘Uitgesproken’ – an in-depth news program – that was about blood mobiles. Raw materials, like tin, gold and coltan, which are used in our mobile phones, are being produced in mines in eastern Congo, where pain and suffering surrounds these working places.

Social Networking Sites and the Missing Half

Dana Boyd describes “social networking sites” as “web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature

PICNIC 08 – Locative Lab on Education

What: Locative Lab on Education and GPS-based programme 7scenes
Organised by: Waag Society
When: 24 Sept 08 14:00 – 18:00
Where: PICNIC Club (Gashouder)

Skype-to-skype by mobile phone.

Skypephone A nice addition to previous posts on this blog by Laura en Daphne on ’skype alternatives’, here a pro-skype announcement. Today, mobile phone company 3 unveiled its Skypephone, which supports free calls over the internet with the use of Skype. In this post a summary of some pros and cons from the web.