As mobile phones combined with Internet services gain more and more capability, the era of ubiquitous computing will begin, whereby everyone in the world will be able to digitally interconnect. One more step along that path is occurring with the announcement of Google’s SMS Search in Ghana and Nigeria (as reported on the great blog, White African).
The device most of the world will connect to the Internet with will not be a Mac or an PC: it will be a low cost mobile phone/handheld device. Companies like Google will supply everything else. And it will happen very soon.
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