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Facebook Hits 100 Million US Users, Astonishing Growth in SE Asia | Penn Olsonnearly 1/3 of the US population are logging into Facebook each month
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The Sesame Street Complete Series: Google Celebrates In Style! | Penn OlsonGoogle’s Sesame Street doodle series, creatively done to celebrate Sesame Street 40th anniversary today!
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Twitter To “CONQUER” Japan And More | Penn OlsonHaving launched Twitter in Japanese back in April 2008, the micro-blogging giant has accumulated more than 783,000 Japanese users in its portfolio. Out of which, 95% of them tweet via their mobile phone; a statistic that probably inspired Twitter to launch a Japanese mobile site just yesterday!
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Rwanda takes broadband leapBy Adam Blenford BBC News, Kigali Landlocked Rwanda is weeks away from completing a link to a new fibre-optic network promising high-speed internet for East Africa, officials say. Engineers expect the capital, Kigali, to be connected to newly-arrived undersea cables in Kenya by November. ...
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Solar Power, Mobile Phones Converge to Distribute Water in Kenya - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comSolar Power, Mobile Phones Converge to Distribute Water in Kenya Mobile phones have revolutionized trade across Africa, and in the space of just a decade or so, the continent has leapfrogged from minimal landline networks to pioneering mobile phone technology that often is not available in ...
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All things Africa and ICT - PSD Blog - The World Bank GroupI've just run across a spate of items on the development of ICT in Africa; although it could just be coincidence, I suspect there's been a growing interest in this topic in the development community. First off, Africa Telecom News has just come out with an Africa Mobile Factbook (Hat tip: Whi...
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The Doctor Is Only an SMS Away | GOODThrough motorcycles and text messages, FrontlineSMS:Medic connects doctors and patients in rural Africa. In the developing world , most communities don’t have access to a hospital, let alone a doctor. Valiant community health workers sometimes serve rural villages, but they don’t have the ...
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Foreign Policy: The Next Big Thing: A New YouAs countries and industries grow increasingly overwhelmed by wave after wave of bankruptcies, layoffs, restructurings, botched contracts, and embarrassing bonuses, they might lose sight of a second, much larger set of tsunamis gathering force over the horizon. While the economy is melting down, ...
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And now, Twitter philanthropy | csmonitor.comAnd now, Twitter philanthropy In a new era of social giving, nonprofits tap the Web’s social networks. New York They gathered at beach resorts in Dubai, pubs in London, and a noisy cafe in Beijing. Here in New York, they flocked to a popular West Side bar. By the time the sun set on the ...
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Africa joining the electric car craze, with Optimal Energy’s Joule » VentureBeatThe entire world hopes to start driving electric cars soon, and Africa, despite its reputation for poor economies, is no exception. Luckily, a South African company called Optimal Energy is working to release a vehicle in 2010.And unlike the many attempts to make electric cars as small and cheap ...
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