(Our Tech Blog) I heard a story of crime in Cambodia, belom long ago, depicting the wrong way to use your cell phone. And also how the actual use of technology has so advanced in Asia.
It happened like this: a man in Phnom Penh to try to extort money from his former employer with anonymous messages threatening his life. This effort was then fail. According to the Cambodia Daily, the main failure was that he asked the victim to transfer money to accounts Wing, this is a system that allows money transfers from and to mobile phones.Scientists do not need to be a genius to know that you should not include personal phone numbers while doing things like sending threats via SMS. I guess anyway, this person may not be that smart.
Well, cell phone, on the other hand, is a device that 'smart'. Petty criminals are using a service that can be will be the envy of many people in the United States, where most transfers are done via paper check, but for a country that the use of smartphones to utilize the web from anywhere growing craze.
Asia, Leading Innovation
As quoted from detikINET.com. In fact, Asia has become the leader in innovation in mobile Internet technology over the years. On the one hand, there are places like Japan and Korea, where people pay a train ticket and watch streaming movies on their cell phones since many years ago.
On the other hand, there are many smart people throughout Southeast Asia to take advantage of SMS as much as possible as a simple but powerful way to harness the ranks of servers connected to the internet, making them a mobile computer.
Farmers in rural India can know the prices of agricultural products while in the field, some Asian companies are using mobile phones to deliver financial services to a large number of people in developing countries in the region who do not want to be touched by the bank. Another example is G-Cash in the Philippines.
In Kenya, via SMS, you can buy weather insurance and receive payment directly to the phone if it did not rain at a certain time. A company in India has built a complete mobile operating system based on SMS-based applications, including apps for Google and Facebook.
SMS is still alive and prosperous and able to do things that are more distant than ever done before.
Mobile Revolution?
Many people are busy shouting 'mobile revolution' lately. But what makes 2011 so different from some years ago?
Changes are driven by a fundamental shift, one that combines the most simple of smartphones and mobile phones. Mobile community in Asia to join the Internet that is open on all sides, whether via SMS, or smartphone browser that can render any web page, or open source operating system like Android. At all events, innovations could easily spread to various devices and platforms.
It is not always the case. In some countries, mobile phones with advanced functionality introduced but could not interact with the Internet or other networks. In other countries again, every new cell phone has always meant a new software requirement for the developer.
In fact, not too long ago when Google had to spend a lot of time to make our maps mobile application running on a variety of different mobile phones, as much by the time we needed to develop the product itself.
Currently, the picture was much different. On the most good, open smartphone platform provides developers and manufacturers can be used anywhere and Asia immediately grabbed this opportunity.
China is the second largest country in terms of apps that are downloaded. Estimates, Asia will become a global hub for developing the app in the next few years.
Both Japan and Korea could bring international hits for the iPhone and Android a few years ago will be even harder to simply cross the border. With the increasing cheapness of smartphones, like the power will be spread throughout Asia. We estimate, in the next few years, a browser-based touch-screen phones and low cost will be owned by the billions of people.
Both those who sell insurance or SMS-based developer of Japanese origin that makes photo app for the Android, will be able to utilize that technology to the entire earth in a short time, And that's why openness is a more convincing foundation for Asia, rather than a closed system aka the walled garden.
We really must never underestimate the power of an ability to transmit information regardless of restrictions. Last October, Prime Minister of Cambodia and Thailand completed a crisis about the border via the rear. Did they do it through conversation in the 'red phone' special path? No. This was done through exchanging SMS.