Constant Touch (18 page)

Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, ‘Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves. A hidden file in iOS 4 is regularly recording the position of devices',
O'Reilly
, 20 April 2011
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html

Tatum Anderson, ‘Mobile phone lifeline for world's poor', BBC News, 19 February 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6339671.stm

Tatum Anderson, ‘Mobile phones reach Uganda's villages', BBC News, 15 November 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7071636.stm

Tatum Anderson, ‘India seeks mobiles for the masses', BBC News, 2 December 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6339519.stm

Anon, ‘From iPhone to iGroan', BBC News, 12 January 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6252991.stm

Artur Attman et al,
L.M. Ericsson 100 Years
, three volumes, (Örebro, 1977). Three-volume company history of Ericsson

Ken Banks, ‘Mobiles offer lifelines in Africa', BBC News, 15 September 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8256818.stm

David Barboza, ‘In China, knockoff cellphones are a hit',
New York Times
, 28 April 2009

Anne Barnard, ‘Growing presence in the courtroom: cellphone data as witness',
New York Times
, 6 July 2009

Graham Barnfield, ‘How I unwittingly helped to start the Happy Slaps panic. A modern media tale: my 15 minutes of fame commenting on those 15-second videos', 20 May 2005
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAB59.htm

Nick Bilton, ‘Disruptions. At its trial, Apple spills some secrets',
New York Times
, 5 August 2012

Ryan Block, ‘Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote'.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/

Barry Brown, Nicola Green and Richard Harper (eds.),
Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age
(London: Springer, 2002)

Oliver Burkeman, ‘How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us',
Guardian
, 28 August 2012

Business Week
: i-mode quotations taken from
http://www.businessweek.com/adsections/sun/heroes/content.html

Manuel Castells et al,
Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007)

Rory Cellan-Jones, ‘Phone hacking: are you safe?', BBC News, 12 July 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14118995

Cellular News: An excellent resource, at
www.cellular-news.com

Choe Sang-Hun, ‘North Koreans use cellphones to bare secrets',
New York Times
, 28 March 2010

CNN: For the Congo volcano and mobile phones. For example
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/01/20/congo.mobiles/

Council of the European Communities, ‘87/371/EEC: Council Recommendation of 25 June 1987 on the coordinated introduction of public pan-European cellular digital land-based mobile communications in the Community'. This and other European documents can be found via
europa.eu

Jon Cronin, ‘A mobile vision for Africa', BBC News, 5 July 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3854495.stm

Jon Cronin, ‘Africa's mobile entrepreneurs', BBC News, 24 January 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4145435.stm

Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman (eds.),
Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa
(Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2009). A rich collection of essays on mobile Africa. Essays discuss aspects of mobile phone use and culture in Cameroon, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Sudan and Ghana

Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, ‘In China, human costs are built into an iPad',
New York Times
, 25 January 2012

Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, ‘How the US lost out on iPhone work',
New York Times
, 21 January 2012

Zusha Elinson, ‘After cellphone action, BART faces escalating protests',
New York Times
, 20 August 2011

Kristi Essick, ‘Guns, Money and Cellphones',
The Industry Standard
, 11 June 2001. An informative article on coltan. Also useful are the United States Geological Survey reports available via the USGS website,
www.usgs.gov

Jonathan Fildes, ‘Mobile phones expose human habits', BBC News, 4 June 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7433128.stm

Claude S. Fischer,
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). This is the main reference for the history of the old telephone

H.N. Gant,
Mobile Radio Telephones: An Introduction to their Use and Operation
(London: Chapman & Hall, 1959)

Garry A. Garrard,
Cellular Communications: Worldwide Market Development
(Boston: Artech House, 1998). The most useful guide to early mobiles. Rich source of information, especially on the technical side, and for international comparisons

Juliette Garside, ‘Apple's efforts fail to end gruelling conditions at Foxconn factories. Abuses continue at electronics assembly firm with staff working up to 80 hours' overtime a month, says Hong Kong rights group',
Guardian
, Wednesday 30 May 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/30/foxconn-abuses-despite-apple-reforms

Gerard Goggin,
Cellphone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life
(London: Routledge, 2006). Excellent guide to the cultural significance of mobile phones. Topics covered by Goggin include mobile phones as badges of identity, text messaging, cameraphones and mobile television. Particularly noteworthy is a very good chapter on cellphones and disability issues

Fiona Graham, ‘M-Pesa: Kenya's mobile wallet revolution', BBC News, 22 November 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11793290

Louise Greenwood, ‘Africa's mobile banking revolution', BBC News, 12 August 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8194241.stm

Victoria Harrington and Pat Mayhew,
Mobile Phone Theft
, Home Office Research Study 235, Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, January 2001

Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller,
The Cellphone: An Anthropology of Communication
(Oxford: Berg, 2006)

iFixit, ‘iPhone 4 teardown'
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+4+Teardown/3130/1
. I couldn't afford to smash my own iPhone 4, but here is a detailed description of what you see if you strip one down to its components

Walter Isaacson,
Steve Jobs
(London: Little, Brown, 2011). An excellent biography that has as good access to its difficult subject as could be expected

Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda (eds.),
Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005). An edited collection which takes a snapshot of Japanese mobile culture

A. Jagoda and M. de Villepis,
Mobile Communications
(Chichester: John Wiley, 1993). Published in France in 1991. A good source for the European factors behind GSM

James E. Katz and Mark A. Aakhus (eds.),
Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communications, Private Talk, Public Performance
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Timo Kopomaa,
The City in Your Pocket. Birth of the Mobile Information Society
(Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2000). Finnish social research, confident that the mobile is reinvigorating public space

Ray Lawrence,
The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change
(London: Routledge, 1999). Roads and an ‘alteration in the mentalité of space-time' to produce Romans

Amanda Lenhart, Rich Ling, Scott Campbell, Kristen Purcell,
Teens and Mobile Phones
, Pew Internet and American Life report, April 2010
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx

The Right Honourable Lord Justice Leveson,
An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press
, Four Volumes, HC 780-I (London: The Stationery Office, 2012). This is the Leveson report. The inquiry was triggered by revelations about mobile phone hacking, but covered broad questions about the ethics of the press.

Mail on Sunday
, ‘The stark reality of iPod's Chinese factories', 18 August 2006
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-401234/The-stark-reality-iPods-Chinese-factories.html

Mobile Communications International
: A good source of mobile news and international statistics

Jon Mooallem, ‘The afterlife of cellphones',
New York Times
, 13 January 2008. Very interesting article on the recycling of phones

Olga Morawczynski and Mark Pickens, ‘Poor people using mobile financial services: observations on customer usage and impact from M-PESA', CGAP, August 2009

Evgeny Morozov,
The Net Delusion
(London: Allen Lane, 2011). Thorough-going and refreshing scepticism

Robert C. Morris,
Between the Lines: A Personal History of the British Public Telephone and Telecommunications Service, 1870–1990
(Just Write Publishing Ltd, 1994)

O
2
, ‘Making calls has become fifth most frequent use for a Smartphone for newly-networked generation of users',
http://news.o2.co.uk/?press-release=making-calls-has-become-fifth-most-frequent-use-for-a-smartphone-for-newly-networked-generation-of-users

Ofcom,
The Communications Market Report: United Kingdom
, 2012
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/market-data/communications-market-reports/cmr12/uk
/. This report found ‘for the first time ever, a fall in the volume of mobile calls (by just over 1%) in 2011'. Also contains good data on other mobile consumer trends

Public Record Office: HO/255 series has many interesting files relating to early mobile radio in the UK

Richard Robison and David S.G. Goodman,
The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and Middle-Class Revolution
(London: Routledge, 1996)

Alissa J. Rubin, ‘Taliban using modern means to add to sway',
New York Times
, 4 October 2011

Leo G. Sands,
Guide to Mobile Radio
(New York: Greensback Library, Inc., 1958)

Jeffery Sconce,
Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2000)

Kim Severson and Robbie Brown, ‘Outlawed, cellphones are thriving in prisons',
New York Times
, 2 January 2011

Taimoor Shah, ‘Taliban threatens Afghan cellphone companies',
New York Times
, 26 February 2008

Daniel Jordan Smith, ‘Cellphones, Social Inequality, and Contemporary Culture in Nigeria',
Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines
40(3) (2006), pp. 496–523

Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (eds.),
Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2012). Edited collection of essays on the iPhone, from a media studies perspective

Dan Steinbock,
The Nokia Revolution: The Story of an Extraordinary Company that Transformed an Industry
(New York: AMACOM, 2001). Business history of the Finnish giant.

Alan Stone,
How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications
(Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1997)

Hiroko Tabuchi, ‘Why Japan's cellphones haven't gone global',
New York Times
, 20 July 2009

Times of India
, ‘Mischievous SMSs on northeast people now doing the rounds in Delhi', 18 August 2012

Matthew Wells, ‘New Yorkers fight mobile phone ban', BBC News, 25 May 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5013424.stm

Charlotte Windle, ‘China's rich fuel mobile revolution', BBC News, 5 December 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4500692.stm

World Bank,
M
aximising Mobile
, 2012
http://go.worldbank.org/FFOU51MTQ0

Peter Young,
Person to Person: The International Impact of the Telephone
(Cambridge: Granta Editions, 1991)

Note: Hyperlinked page numbers in this electronic version of the index correspond to the page numbers in the printed edition. Since your e-reader may only show a portion of the printed page, you may need to scroll to the next page to find the index topic.

3G
177
,
181
,
186
–
192
,
204
,
258

4G
258

Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS)
42
,
44
,
82
,
92

Afghanistan
234
–
235

aircraft, mobile phones in
248
–
249

AirTouch Communications
88

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T)
30
,
39
,
41
–
43

Android
208
–
209
,
230

Apple
5
,
19
,
70
,
181
,
193
–
218
,
226
–
227
,
229
,
246

apps
101
,
104
,
201
–
202
,
228
–
229

Arab Spring
236

ARM Holdings
218

Åsdal, Carl-Gösta
50

Australia
17
,
65
,
112

Azerbaijan
65

Bangladesh
104
,
123

batteries
11
,
13
,
15
,
217
–
218

Bell Labs
22
,
39
–
41

BlackBerry
171
,
193
–
194
,
208

British Telecom (BT)
80
–
81
,
83
–
84

camera phones
221
–
225

cars and phones
10
,
14
,
38
–
39
,
74
–
79
,
147
–
153
,
247

CB radio
149
–
150
,
254

CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access)
69
–
70
,
93
,
187
,
233

Cellnet
82
–
84
,
88
–
89
,
160
,
188

cells and the cellular idea
24
–
27

China
92
–
93
,
102
,
106
–
107
,
112
,
206
,
213
–
217
,
219
,
238
,
242

coltan
17
–
18

computers
178
–
179
,
196
–
198
,
216

Congo, Democratic Republic of
18
,
117
–
118
,
120
,
122

containerisation
183
–
185

conversation
72
–
74

Cooper, Martin
41

Corning Inc.
200

crime
147
–
149
,
158
–
159
,
247

Cuba
251
–
252

dead time
85

Denmark
47
,
49
,
64

Dowler, Milly
163
,
165
–
166

Egypt
237

EIN (Equipment Identification Number)
156

Ericsson, Lars Magnus
13
–
14
,
20
,
247

Estrada, Joseph
113
–
115
,
236

Europe
58
–
67

e-waste
122

Facebook
180
,
230
,
237
,
244

Fascia
132
,
136

FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access)
68
,
187

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
21
,
39
–
42
,
143

Finland
19
,
64
,
132
–
140
,
190

flashing
124
–
125

Foxconn
214
–
215

France
19
,
55
,
64
,
88
,
155
,
158
,
231

Galvin, Paul V.
38

games
139
,
180
–
181
,
202
,
228
–
229

Garrard, Garry A.
44
,
46
,
55
,
92
,
112
,
186

General Post Office (GPO)
28
–
30
,
76
–
77
,
139

Germany
54
–
57
,
64
,
88
,
156
,
188
,
231
,
244

Goggin, Gerard
222

Google
103
,
192
,
208
–
209
,
212
,
225
–
226

GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile or Global System for Mobile)
47
,
58
–
67
,
73
,
85
,
92
,
95
,
98
,
119
,
136
,
156
,
181
,
186
–
187
,
204
,
218
,
232
–
233
,
241
,
256

Guinea
120
–
121

Haiti
118

hand-portables
45
–
46
,
66

happy slapping
223
–
225

health, mobile phones as a threat to
141
–
146

Hong Kong
112
,
122

Hutchison Whampoa
192

IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)
104
,
157

i-Mode
96
–
100
,
186
,
189

India
102
–
106

intellectual property
209
–
211

International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
21

iPhone
70
,
107
,
139
,
180
–
181
,
199
–
206
,
212
,
214
–
219
,
223
,
226
–
227
,
246
,
252

Iran
237
,
239
–
240

Iraq
231
–
234

Italy
54
,
64
,
190

Ive, Jonathan
198

Japan
19
,
53
,
94
–
101
,
222
,
244

Jobs, Steve
5
,
194
,
196
,
199
–
200
,
205
,
208
,
217
,
260
–
261

Johnson, E.F.
41

Kabila, Laurent
117

Kenya
127
–
131
,
191

Korea, North
238

Korea, South
19
,
207
–
209
,
211
–
212

Leveson, Lord and Leveson report
163
–
168

Liberia
120

liquid crystal displays
16
–
17

location, phones and
225
–
227

Lost Highway
171
,
173

Marconi, Guglielmo
11
–
13
,
20
,
191

Matrix, The
172

McLuhan, Marshall
220

Mercury Communications Ltd
80

Microsoft
30
,
197
,
212

Millicom
41
,
81
,
91

Mobile Switching Centres
26

Morozov, Evgeny
239
–
240

Motorola
18
–
19
,
38
–
39
,
41
,
45
–
46
,
66
–
67
,
198
,
209
,
212

movies, mobile phones and
169
–
174

M-PESA
127
–
131
,
191

Netz-C
56
,
156

New York World's Fair
35
–
38

newspapers
89
,
161
–
168

Niger
120

Nigeria
119
–
122
,
125
,
170
–
171
,
261

Nokia
18
–
19
,
53
,
66
,
88
,
132
–
140
,
172
–
173
,
180
,
208
,
212

Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) group and standard
50
–
53
,
54
,
58
,
63
,
65
,
81
,
136
,
185

Norway
47
,
49

NTT and NTT DoCoMo
94
–
100
,
113

O
2
88

Ollila, Jorma Jaako
135
–
140

One 2 One
86
–
89
,
188

Orange
86
–
89
,
188
,
232

Pakistan
104
–
106
,
122
,
261

pay as you go
87
,
122
–
123
,
151
,
153

PCN (Personal Communications Networks)
84
–
86

personal digital assistants
197

personal technologies
9
–
10
,
179

Philippines
113
–
116
,
236

phone hacking
161
–
168

predictive text
139

prisons, mobile phones in
243
–
244

privacy
69
,
168
,
221
–
222
,
242

privatisation
80

Qualcomm
70
,
93
,
249

radio spectrum and radio frequency allocation
20
–
23
,
27
,
76
–
77
,
187

Radiocom 2000
55

railways
72
,
221
,
249
–
250

ringtones
2
,
11
,
241

Ring, D.H.
5
,
24
–
28

roaming
62
–
63

Roman Empire
255
–
256

royalty
74
–
77
,
89
,
161

Russia
65
,
90
–
92
,
231

Rwanda
117
,
126

Samsung
18
–
19
,
207
–
212
,
218
,
246

schools, mobile phones in
244
–
246

security state
167

Siemens
11
,
19
,
55

SIM cards
56
,
122
,
156

Skype
192

Slovenia
190

smartphones
4
–
5
,
107
,
140
,
175
–
230
,
241
,
243
,
246
,
258
,
260
–
261

Somalia
120

Sony
19
,
94
,
212

South Africa
65
,
119
,
126

Spain
54
,
86

standards
44
,
50
–
52
,
58
–
67
,
69
–
70
,
81
–
82
,
85
–
86
,
183
–
185
,
231
–
233

Sudan
124
–
126

Sweden
13
–
14
,
19
,
47
–
50
,
54
,
63
–
64
,
188

Symbian
140
,
212

TACS (Total Access Communications System)
82
,
85
–
86
,
92

Taliban
234
–
235

tantalum
17
–
18

Tanzania
121
,
123
,
126

TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access)
69
–
70
,
187

terrorism
154
,
158
,
174
,
223
,
251

text messaging
63
,
111
–
116
,
139
,
240
,
250
,
257