Today's Mobile Minute brings you coverage on why the the idea of a "cyber-utopia" is flawed, a demonstration of a hacked phone tower, a report on Alabama's increasingly mobile-based news consumption, licensing iPad and iPhone apps from the New York Times, and mBillionth's mobile awards.
- In an video interview with The Guardian, Ethan Zuckerman notes that although the Internet gives users access to many world views, most users tend to stay within ideologically and linguistically similar media - meaning that users are not benefiting from the promise of global education.
- Security researcher Chris Paget recently demonstrated how a home-made (for $1500) cell phone base station can be used to hack into 2G GSM phone calls.
- As part of a Knight Fellows in Community Journalism project at the University of Alabama, a group of students studied how readers across the state got their news - and found that growing numbers of readers were turning to mobiles for their news.
- According to AdAge, the New York Times is now licensing their iPad and iPhone platform so that other publishers can build out news apps.
- The mBillionth Awards, held on July 23rd, celebrated the South Asian mobile industry. Covering everything from m-health and m-education to m-tourism (and seven other categories), the awards uncovered new projects and products in South East Asia.
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