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 * Alexander Lee Edmondson**
 * 11/17/2010**

**Wizzard Media Expands its Podcast Apps to Work With Android Phones**
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The link above will take you an article about Wizzard Media now putting their podcast applications on Android Phones. They say that these new launched applications, which will be selling for about $2.50 per application, will be companion application for their highest rated video podcasts. In the past, you could only get these the applications stores from iTunes and Apple. The Android version of their podcast applications used with any device that is running the Android 1.6 or higher OS (or Operating System). According to statistics gathered from Google, Gartner and Canalys, 8.5 million people were using Android phones by the end of 2009. Today, that number has jumped up to over 50 million users. Wizzard believes that this new expansion to the Android platform will increase their network downloads and unique audience counts while also bring in new customers for their podcasting services. Within the industry, Apple’s Application Store and Google’s Android Marketplace are considered by most to be the two most prominent Application stores. Wizzard wants to be able to convert the 700 applications that are already offered in Apple’s Application store to also be available in the Android market place within the next couple of months because of the post Christmas sales jump from the influx of new devices coming out. The standard base price for the Podcast Applications for the Android will be $1.99. They will offer additional features in the features. According to the Gartner Inc. Research Firm, they are predicting that the revenue from downloadable mobile applications will go up from $6.8 billion worldwide this year to about $29.5 billion by 2013. I found this to be an interesting article because we are now in the era of companies are deciding on which phone or phones they want their applications featured on. Some of these companies are even coming up with their own phones so they can do it themselves. In the future, there will probably be even more competition for these coveted applications. There might eventually be one dominant player that receives these applications or maybe it will be more spread out. Only time will tell.


 * Yhosibell Prieto**
 * 11/17/2010**

Mobile Devices to Revolutionize Health Care, Gates Says
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According to Bill Gates the mobile devices will revolutionize the Health care system by smartphone applications through which the patients can obtain medical information and Diagnoses. It is said that from this system around 500 million people will be covered by 2015 and that this applications will eventually improve by allowing the doctors to be there with the patient if they once happen to be at hospital with low trained professionals. This application may be really helpful mostly in the U.S where not everyone has access to health care, and where health is seen more as a privilege than as a right. With this application people who has money to afford a smartphone but not to pay a health insurance can have access to basic health services such as getting diagnose, obtaining health information, as well as reminding their patients to take their medicines. I think this applications will be very helpful to many millions of people if it is done right for a good purpose.


 * Elizabeth Hansen**
 * 11/17/2010**

Nokia Sees a Growth in Business in the World’s Poorest Countries [|Nokia Taking a Rural Road to Growth]

According to this article from the New York Times, Nokia is seeing a growth in mobile phone sales in some of the world’s poorest countries. The article states that farmers in central India find text messaging so imperative that they are willing to pay a monthly cell phone subscription. Since 2009, Nokia has signed up 6.3 million people in India, China, and Indonesia and has entered into a commercial partnership with agriculture and weather agencies; making having a mobile phone a vital necessity for farmers in these countries. The next consumers for Nokia to target will be Nigeria with the expansion of Nokia’s new mobile services business, Ovi Life Tools. It’s pleasing to learn that companies such as Nokia are taking proactive approaches in helping our world’s poorest countries and consumers.

**11/17/2010**
 * Ruben Velazquez **

 The video below is an example of the impact that mobile media has on our generation. Mobile devices allow us to not only experience certain situations, but also provide us with the ability to share it with the rest of the world. The impact that this medium has shows us how influential mobile devices can be under many circumstances. We are no longer in a period where we must observe everything through media outlets. Mobile media is allowing civilians the opportunity to become involved and share their observations with the world.

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