(CNN) -- When renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs visited rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa in 2005, he saw impoverished communities with poor drinking water, feast-and-famine crop cycles and rampant malaria infections. What he didn't see was mobile phones.
As the phone hacking investigation that ripped through UK politics and media moves to the US, what next for Murdoch? We are beginning the new year with an in-depth look at what was the biggest media story of last year - the tabloid phone hacking scandal that shook the world's most powerful media corporation and is sure to cause more tremors in the year to come.
"The world is increasingly going hi-tech. Many people in our high consumption society want the latest and the greatest; last year's much anticipated laptops and cell phones are miles behind the newest models that are coming out. So what happens with the old models? "