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Nouvel article qui confirme que #Facebook a l’ambition de devenir une sorte d’opérateur #telecom (ou du moins de peser sur les #telcos) et fédère en ce sens :

Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/technology/facebook-leads-an-effort-to-lower-barriers-to-internet-access.html?pagewant

Half a dozen of the world’s tech giants, including Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson, have agreed to work with the company as partners on the initiative, which they call Internet.org.
►http://www.internet.org [une bien belle URL]

The companies intend to accomplish their goal in part by simplifying phone applications so they run more efficiently and by improving the components of phones and networks so that they transmit more data while using less battery power.

#connectivité

Avec la vidéo qui va bien :
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NdWaZkvAJfM

Car bien sûr, M. Zuckerberg nous l’assure :

We’re focused on it more because we think it’s something good for the world,” he said, “rather than something that is going to be really amazing for our profits.

Précédents articles sur Facebook et le #mobile :

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/technology/facebook-beats-expectations-on-strong-mobile-growth.html
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/technology/for-developing-world-a-lightweight-facebook.html?pagewanted=all

#Facebook #Mobile User Counts Revealed : 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/how-many-mobile-users-does-facebook-have

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There’s a ton of of feature phone users, and not enough are on Facebook. The social network should look to how it can convince its feature phone users to get their friends on-board too. That might mean some kind of incentive program for feature phone recruiters or recruits, such as mobile data discounts.

#téléphonie