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Towards Understanding <endeca_term>Developing World</endeca_term> Traffic

Towards Understanding Developing World Traffic

While many projects aim to provide network access to the developing world or improve existing network access, relatively little data exists regarding the... Read more

15 June, 2010
First-Class Access for <endeca_term>Developing-World</endeca_term> Environments

First-Class Access for Developing-World Environments

...the views for the creation of a networking software stack tailored toward developing-world usage. With this stack, they believe that developing-world users will... Read more

18 June, 2010

Closing the Technology Gender Gap

...everyone is amazed at the quick proliferation of mobile phones in the developing world, here's a startling statistic from the Technology Salon which should... Read more

19 July, 2010
Green Communications: A Call for Power Efficient Wireless Systems

Green Communications: A Call for Power Efficient Wireless Systems

...usage has skyrocketed in recent years and will continue to grow as developing world reaches to wireless as the communication medium of choice. The telecommunications... Read more

1 July, 2011
Hyke: A Low-Cost Remote Attendance Tracking System for Developing Regions

Hyke: A Low-Cost Remote Attendance Tracking System for Developing Regions

Tracking attendance is an important consideration for many developing world interventions. In many cases, these interventions are located in remote areas... Read more

28 June, 2011
The Pilot Deployment of a Low Cost, Low Power Gateway to Extend Cellular Coverage in Developing Regions

The Pilot Deployment of a Low Cost, Low Power Gateway to Extend Cellular Coverage in Developing Regions

...of the tremendous growth in the number of cellular subscribers in the developing world, the teledensity in most of the rural areas remains very low... Read more

3 May, 2011
Mondi Recycling Outsourcing the Supply Chain

Mondi Recycling Outsourcing the Supply Chain

In the developing world, recycling is essentially driven by economic necessity, with the associated environmental... Read more

13 December, 2010
Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence From India

Do Call Centers Promote School Enrollment? Evidence From India

Globalization has changed job opportunities in much of the developing world. In India, outsourcing has created a new class of high-skill... Read more

29 June, 2010

Give broadband to the third world - but don't neglect security

...profession and draw on their expertise to form their plans for the developing world. Otherwise we will be faced with huge and expensive problems that... Read more

23 September, 2010 by Tony Dyhouse

A Knights fail: Why Jony Ive isnâ??t the most deserving person in the...

Every New Year and Queens Birthday I look through the honours for a few names I think should have received a letter from... Read more

2 January, 2012

Gmail registration now possible on featurephones

...to create Gmail accounts from featurephone browsers. The move, aimed at the developing world, was announced on Google's Africa blog on Tuesday. Previously, it... Read more

6 October, 2011
Intel builds sensor grenade for firemen

Intel builds sensor grenade for firemen

...data on water quality, which it hopes will be used in the developing world as well as by researchers.The device has four sensors. These... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

BSA secret agenda: open source saves the world

The Business Software Alliance, that concerned body in the US which bangs the drum for victims of crime — Microsoft,... Read more

8 September, 2011
Google I/O offers glimpse of Android's future

Google I/O offers glimpse of Android's future

...Martin/CNET NewsThis story originally appeared as Google's vision of a developing world (photos) on CNET News. Get the latest technology news and analysis... Read more

13 May, 2011 by James Martin

Nokia-Microsoft's marriage: a marginal future

...an unparalleled worldwide distribution network and a huge potential presence in the developing world that, at the moment, is hard to call. The talk of... Read more

13 February, 2011

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