She can get stock prices, weather, currency and price conversions, dictionary definitions, measurement conversions, math totals.
The portal provides farmers with information on farming best practices, market prices, weather forecasts, news and a Q&A section which enables interaction with ITC's agricultural experts.
Even those $6-a-month 6-a-monthon services ought to be free; on regular smartphones, traffic, gas prices, weather and the like are free.
In addition to education and entertainment, it provides agricultural information, such as prices, weather data and farming tips, that can be called up from special menus on some Nokia handsets.
There, using a wireless network connection, it spends the day spooling through a parade of Internet widgets, like headlines, stock prices, weather, photos, Twitter or Facebook feeds, top 10 lists, e-mail, sports scores and jokes.
A ladder of stacked file-folder tabs lets you choose which kind of constantly updated Web-page information you would like to see there: your calendar, stock prices, weather, joke of the day, news headlines and so on.
A big knob serves as an old television-style channel selector that calls up Web pages for sports scores, stock prices, weather, bill paying, restaurant deliveries, and so on.
You would programme your own flatpad to update you with whatever information you wanted as often as you wanted it, whether it be certain stock prices, weather, political news or golf scores.
Its aim will be to find new ways of ending extreme poverty by 2030, as well as meeting more immediate targets: for example, providing digitised agricultural data (market prices, weather warnings) by mobile phone to 42m small farmers in Africa within five years, and providing affordable off-grid energy to 40m people.
The second example is a product called Reuters Market Light: a mobile micro-information service for Indian farmers that provides them with simple to understand information on crop prices, weather reports and advice on farming; Since launching just over 3 years ago the service has had well over a million users and we've now rolled it out to cover a dozen Indian states.
