Today's Mobile Minute brings you an interview with Indrani Medhi on her work with text-free interface technology, an SMS case study from Toronto's The Globe and Mail, a look at race and digital technology, Nokia's falling profits, and which mobile domains are most popular.
- The Wall Street Journal had an in-depth interview with Indrani Medhi, associate researcher at Microsoft Research India, about her work to create a text-free interface that would make technology easier for non-literate people to navigate.
- The Pew Research Center's Mobile Access 2010 report revealed that African-American and English-speaking Latinos have higher cell phone ownership rates than whites, and that minority cell phone owners access the mobile web more than white cell phone owners. Latoya Peterson investigates how these mobile habits could be used to create better access for minorities to the digital world.
- The New York Times looked at Nokia's struggles to keep up in the smartphone world, from their falling profits to their hopes for the new Nokia N8 smartphone.
- A short piece from Poynter looks at the multitude of web to mobile web domain names, and what businesses should do to ensure that mobile readers can get to their information.
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