Downloadable novels, written to be read on mobile phones, are the most remarkable success story in Japanese publishing. The fledgling industry is already worth ¥9 billion (€57m) a year – while sales of traditional books are…
Tuesday 12 July
In Libya’s slow moving war, it’s been a struggle just to get a working phone line.
Thursday 16 February
It’s one of the world’s newest phobias; identified just four years ago.
Tuesday 28 February
The first mobile phone I had was the Nokia Brick. It had a proper name, I’m sure, but that’s how I remember it.
Japanese mobile phone "sommeliers", plus the ghost tower of Bangkok.
Sudanese-born Mo Ibrahim oversaw the launch of the UK’s first mobile phone network in the 1980s before taking his telecom expertise back to his home continent. Celtel, the company he founded, was sold for €2.48bn in 2005…
Among our favourite products found on our travels are the Amadana mobile phones and a foldable, full-size bike.
A political scandal in Stockholm, a focus on mobile phone design and the best exhibitions, food and music from New York to Tokyo. Plus, author John Rentoul.
From luggage to watches to eyewear to mobile phones, this is Monocle’s very brief shopping list for some accessories to get you through the coming winter months.
Japan's biggest used-car dealer conquers the US, self-help books on Indian mobile phones, plus growing profits in Russia.
A few of our favourite things, including a new mobile phone by Bic and a waste disposal unit by Loofen. Plus, where to find the best room in the best ryokan at the foot of Mount Fuji.
In our regular series looking at people’s working lives, we enter the world of Katie Paterson, a 27-year-old artist who brings ideas of the universe to life. One of her witty installations involves calling a mobile phone…
Kaoru Kubo welcomes thousands of travellers to Japan every day. A former announcer for public broadcaster NHK Kubo has, for 23 years, been the voice of the Airport Limousine buses that ferry passengers to and from Narita…
Friday 16 April
One is a remote archipelago with its own eco-system.
Saturday 23 January
Once upon a time the word “book” unequivocally meant a simple object consisting of a cover, white pages and sentences printed in black ink.
Wednesday 22 December
In Germany all the blogging, tweeting and iPad-swiping of 2010 has led to a cultural countermovement that’s likely to grow even stronger next year.
Tuesday 1 May
London’s sense of identity has an undeniably old-school feel to it.
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