Thanks to a Tweet from my Alma Mater pointing to this blog post, I’ve learned about an initiative to use smartphones as a transformative tool for small businesses in so-called emerging markets. The article provides some background into the growth of mobile applications for shopping and e-commerce; primarily through the use of text messaging protocols. However, the post’s authors – the co-founders of Frogtek – are more interested in the proliferation of smartphones as platforms for business management applications.