Mobile
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1043 examples of Mobile in a sentence
I couldn't get a
mobile
phone plan because my credit history didn't travel with me.
The economist Robert Jensen did this wonderful study a while back where he watched, in great detail, what happened to the fishing villages of Kerala, India, when they got
mobile
phones for the very first time.
From the Arab Spring to the Anna Hazare movement in India, using
mobile
phones and social media not just for political accountability but also for development accountability.
But within a few weeks, university students were able to use
mobile
phones and an open-source platform to dramatically map the entire community infrastructure.
So if we're not worrying about directing traffic, if we've transcended paper, if we are worrying less about control and more about description, then we can think of the English language as being this beautiful
mobile.
And any time one of those little parts of the
mobile
changes, is touched, any time you touch a word, you use it in a new context, you give it a new connotation, you verb it, you make the
mobile
move.
We know what it's like today, children pouring over with their
mobile
phones on the one hand and then reluctantly going to school to pick up their books with their other hand.
The reason why this happens is because Malte has a
mobile
in his pocket that every five minutes makes a "ping" to the closest antenna and tells it, "Do you have something for me?
Raise your hand if you have a
mobile
in your pocket that does the same.
So what you're sort of seeing here is an example of disruptive technologies, of mobile, social and analytic technologies.
But this speech is being recorded and it will become a video that people can access all over the world on computers,
mobile
devices, televisions.
And he says, "I arrived in Syria full of hope, and immediately, I had two of my prized possessions confiscated: my passport and my
mobile
phone."
More than cars or the Internet or even that little
mobile
device we keep talking about, the technology you're using the most almost every day is this, your tush.
So we refounded the
mobile
unit and took Shakespeare to prisons, to homeless shelters, to community centers in all five boroughs and even in New Jersey and Westchester County.
For example, flipping a boring lecture from the classroom to the screen of a
mobile
device might save instructional time, but if it is the focus of our students' experience, it's the same dehumanizing chatter just wrapped up in fancy clothing.
I mean, you know, what was life like before the
mobile
phone, the things that you take for granted?
We started with paper, we moved to a
mobile
application, web, and now even a controllable thermostat, and for the last five years we've been running the largest behavioral science experiment in the world.
Now it may be that all our
mobile
technology will actually be the same technology that helps us communicate with another species down the road.
For example,
mobile
humanoid robots are still incredibly primitive, but the research arm of the Defense Department just launched a competition to have them do things like this, and if the track record is any guide, this competition is going to be successful.
And also, when traveling within Africa, you've got different settings for different
mobile
providers.
Hard for us to imagine, but in 1995, this was the ultimate elite
mobile
device.
Instead of training people how to put forms onto
mobile
devices, let's create software that lets them do it themselves with no training and without me being involved.
You can create forms, and once you've created the forms, you push them to a variety of common
mobile
phones.
Obviously, nowadays, we've moved past PalmPilots to
mobile
phones.
One of my favorite examples, the IRC, International Rescue Committee, they have a program where semi-literate midwives, using $10
mobile
phones, send a text message using our software, once a week, with the number of births and the number of deaths, which gives IRC something that no one in global health has ever had: a near-real-time system of counting babies, of knowing how many kids are born, of knowing how many children there are in Sierra Leone, which is the country where this is happening, and knowing how many children die.
I love my
mobile
devices.
People are used to, because
mobile
is king, they're very, very used to transferring money, making payments via
mobile.
So when Vodafone came in and saw this problem, this consumer pain point, they created some small change which they call Fakka, which literally sits and is given by the shopkeepers to people, and it's credit that goes straight onto their
mobile
phone.
Turn off those
mobile
phones.
And herein is the greatest lesson of social media and
mobile
devices for all of us right now.
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