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Live Webcast: Turning Data into Business Insight with Analytics
Business analytics. If you aren't using them already, you should be. If you aren't even sure what they are, you'll need to check out this webcast. Discover how you can put your data to work and...
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Orange launches affordable 'Facebook phones' in Europe, Africa
Mobile operator Orange teamed up with social networking giant Facebook, and phone manufacturer Alcatel, to bring three emerging market Facebook-integrated phones to users for under €100.
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Widespread disruption in BlackBerry crash across Europe, Middle East, Africa
BlackBerry service has been widely disrupted across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, after a fault at a near-London datacenter.
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Cast-off Netbooks send home snapshots of 'afterlife' (photos)
MIT researchers set up cast-off Netbooks to send back pictures and location data from the computers? new owners in developing countries. The images are random windows into the everyday lives of...
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Japan tsunami: How the news spread on Facebook
The news quickly spread to some parts of Asia, North America, and Europe. Facebook penetration in South America and Africa is noticeably lower.
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Smartphones in the developing world: Why platform fragmentation is here to stay
$10-$15 handsets are quite typical in African markets. That silver spot on the back of the Chinese-manufacturered device isn’t the lens of a camera…it's paint designed to LOOK like you have a...
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Another push for netbooks in Africa
By using cheap netbooks running Ubuntu, coupled with IBM's cloud computing platforms, businesses in Africa that could not otherwise afford computers for each of their employees will have access to...
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Why Africa gets the IBM-Ubuntu bundle and you do not
Netbook hardware will ship to Africa running Windows, but the IBM download will transform those machines into Ubuntu devices that handle some client functions locally but can also go online to...
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IBM, Canonical partner to target Africa netbook market; Upend Microsoft
IBM and Canonical, the outfit behind Ubuntu Linux, are partnering to target Africa's netbook market. Target: Microsoft.
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Gartner sees boom for virtualization in slump
While virtualization software will take a knock from the downturn in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, the market should bounce back, researcher Gartner predicts.
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(Vista Ultimate)RED for $65 to help save Africa
Microsoft have joined the fight against starvation, by reducing the price of the most expensive version of Vista dramatically to students, part of the (PRODUCT)RED campaign.
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When Linux fails
At first glance, Free and Open Source software should be perfect for places like Mali. The local economy is poor, and average salaries make proprietary software an unimaginable expense for most...
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Sure, energy tech is sexy and could be profitable. But think real green, as in chlorophyll and growing plants. That's the most crucial green tech now.
There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power. And all that makes economic and...
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Fastest-growing global ad market: Latin America
Pricewaterhouse said the $1.6 trln in revenue generated 2007 on advertising, subscriptions and other user fees, in businesses ranging from newspapers to video games, would grow to $2.2 trln in...
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Globalization's discontents
I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared to Zimbabwe, it is...
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A scientist and a shrew
A California Academy of Sciences researcher trekked through the rainforests of Tanzania in search of the Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, the newest mammal to join the elephant shrew group. They may not...
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Gates spending lots of green on green revolution
The Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation are uniting to try to jump-start a new Green Revolution. This is not aimed at electric cars for you and me. Not aimed at cheaper electricity...
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Africa - not fit for sourcing business?
My Irregular colleague Jason Busch - who is an acknowledged thought leader on sourcing stepped on a landmine (metaphorically speaking) in writing off Africa as a continent with which to do...
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Drought ends in disastrous rains
All across the northern third of Africa the rains continue to fall. Normally dry lands are awash from Mauritania to Ehtiopia. We're used to hearing of drought in the Sudan, but floods? Think...
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HP backs African recycling research
The technology vendor is working with partners on improving the safety and environmental impact of electronic waste-recycling in the region.
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Rwanda experience shows difficulty in connecting Africa to the net
Despite investment from big players in the U.S. and elsewhere, most of Africa lags far behind when it comes to Internet infrastructure, reports the New York Times. Civil war, corruption and...
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