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There should be more people like Peter Tatchell. Willing to get up and act at one of the pointless hipocracies that litter our world. I will arrest Robert Mugabe when he arrives in Paris Instead of rolling out the red carpet for the Zimbabwean dictator, M Chirac should enforce France&
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Motorola A760 to Release Linux and Java PDA Phone Motorola has announced the A760, a flip form factor that looks like a hip Treo 300. It's packed with features like: digital camera, video player, MP3 player, speakerphone, advanced messaging, instant Internet access and Bluetooth And it runs Linux
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ext|circ: How CNN edited Blix's transcript After grabbing the text from the two transcripts, correcting for where the BBC inserted a whole bunch of whitespace, there it was. A count in Word says that there's 866 words in one version that aren't in
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From Norwegian PalmPilot site NorPilot, comes this amazing piece of advice. Think about it next time you rush out to buy a PDA:
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Pedal-powered PC zapped -- villagers wait to go wireless A power surge at 3 a.m. Tuesday in the team's makeshift lab in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, did in the drives that were being used to program the little Jhai Computer. It trashed an entire week's
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So, here are the first photos from the Jhai PC project to install pedal-powered wireless Internet into Laotian villages. Yahoo! News - World Photos - Jhai Project [via boingboing] I also mentioned this project on January 3rd
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Over at the Development Gateway they have what looks like an interesting overview of Telecenters. Community Telecenters: Assuring Sustainability & Impact on Rural Poverty Reduction (DG Special Coverage) This Highlight focuses on community telecenters, in particular, on their sustainability and effectiveness. Individual telecenters have been shown to foster profound developmental
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Last week I posted, regarding the readiness of current WiFi technologies to deliever low-cost VoIP. My argument was mostly about the complexity and additional cost for handsets, and VoIP gateways etc. But according to this article over at Newsfactor [via Werblog], there are concerns that 802.11b just isn'
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Universal Internet access: does it make sense? a few additional, worthwhile comments to the Charles Kenny debate on Universal access that I've posted about here and here. This time from the Development Gateway. It's not that this isn't a worthwhile debate, just that everyone
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From Guy Kewney's Mobile Campaign comes the story of interoperability problems with new 802.11g equipment. Anyone looking to buy the new 54 Mbit/s systems should take a serious look at these issues: <a title="Features - New wireless 11g " standard" ends in
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Alan Reiter posts about an extension to the services of Austrian wISP metronet: Reiter's Wireless Data Web Log : Metronet also promotes WiFi for the home and home offices and has a special price that combines home use with public hotspot use. The company offers contract service as well
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From the very useful Digital Dividend we get this interesting note: Project Capsule the plan would equip postal delivery persons with a wireless phone to carry on their routes. Under this model, capitalizing on the wide distribution system of the postal service, telephony would reach virtually everywhere the mail goes