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“I’m on Vodafone, so lucky me, I’m one of the punters that this week can download a new track from her album every day. Yeepee-Hey. ‘Candy S...

In my previous post, I talked about the new threat of ‘illegal downloading’ (colloquially termed ‘piracy’) which is changing the business of...

The demand for, and consumption of, digital music is going through frantic change. Digital technology may have made distribution of music ea...

I can think of only one reason for this recent surge of personal interaction/communication between youths – both online and on mobilephones....

The new relationships that we – or, at least, the youth today – are establishing using the latest mobile, telecom and Internet technologies ...

Most of my friends have given their children – particularly adolescents and teens – mobilephones to stay connected. For emergencies. The log...

Here are some excerpts from another recent article from The Economist, Our nomadic future , which make insightful reading on what may be th...

Our recent achievements in technology and the growth in social media have influenced our behaviour, redfining the way we gather information,...

The detractors of online social networking are many. Their point of view being, since (a) genuine friendships require face-to-face contact, ...

A couple of days ago, over email, a software engineer ‘friend’ I had ‘met’ on a social network mentioned that he has included me in a specia...

My nephew sms-ed me the URL of his new website yesterday. His website had a wonderful introduction by a friend of his, a girl in her late te...

One of the points I had raised in my earlier posts on Generation Next was their fearless attitude of sharing personal information publicly o...

Maybe there’s something to learn from Generation Next: their easy acceptance/use of technology; their unabashed habit of going public online...

Generation Next may be heavy users of the Internet, emails, IMs and social networks, but from a business perspective, everything is not cool...

“Globally, 18-34 year-olds are more likely to rely on technology not only to communicate and shop, but also to enhance their social lives. O...

A lot of investment has gone into researching today’s youth – the Generation Next (people in the 16-25 years age group) – the ones who canno...

Advertisers and marketers know how to reduce their work. They define consumers into segments of people belonging, say, to age groups such as...

Nokia may be eyeing trend-setting consumers in the 16-35 years age group for ‘circular entertainment’ (see my previous post), but in 5 years...

Late last year, Nokia released an interesting bit of news in the market. That, within the next five years, as much as “25% of entertainment ...

With the recent push for citizen journalism by many media houses (print, TV and online), the mobilephone has become an indispensable device ...