Computers To Africa Diary: Day One
Blog Joining me on the trip are Computer Aid's chief executive Tony Roberts, Glenn Edwards - a renowned photographer who has done some truly powerful work covering the troubles in Somalia and Rwanda amongst others, and Graham Thom, a Computer Aid fund...
[September 9, 2007, 12:34]
Police Investigate Charity Hack
News The charity now fears the hack attack will hit fund-raising for crucial aid projects in Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan. Hackers breached the security of the Aid to the Church in Need Web site on Sunday 27 November and stole the credit card details, names...
[December 12, 2005, 14:00]
CIA Funds Chatroom Surveillance
News The proposed system could aid the intelligence community to discover hidden communities and communication patterns in chatrooms without human intervention. In the paper, Yener and Krishnamoorthy predicted their work "could aid [the] intelligence...
[November 25, 2004, 7:35]
Sun Funds Seti@home
News Sun Microsystems has agreed to fund the next generation of Seti@home, the University of California's distributed computing project that allows computer users donate unused processor cycles to aid the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
[December 17, 2003, 13:20]
Anti-spammers Hobble Oxfam's Kosovo Email Campaign
News Britain's largest foreign aid charity, Oxfam, had planned to experiment with direct email canvassing for the first time, using 10,000 email addresses from users of British Telecom's Talk21, a free email service, and Auto Trader magazine's Web...
[April 22, 1999, 7:13]
Computer Aid Gives 40,000 PCs A Fresh Start
News For Computer Aid International, it equals 40,000 PCs that have now been refurbished by the North London-based charity and sent out to schools, community projects and other not-for-profit organisations in 90 countries, mainly in the developing world.
[February 4, 2005, 12:15]
The African E-waste Conundrum
Blog I am off to Kenya next week with UK charity Computer Aid to see some of the projects that PCs donated by UK companies have made possible. I have reported on some of these before such as the Dolphin Pen (USB Key) device which Computer Aid is...
[September 5, 2007, 17:41]
NSPCC To Double Number Of Paedophile Investigation Units
News The first aim will be to aid over 100,000 children every year -- five times more than at present. As well as raising awareness of the issues surrounding child cruelty, the charity hopes to raise £250m to fund its action programmes to protect...
[March 22, 1999, 14:16]
In-car Internet Steers Away From Palm
News Although it isn't required, the satellite-based locator is a significant aid to several of the features, including getting traffic information or driving directions. Delphi also provided an initial investment to launch MobileAria, with the Mayfield...
[October 10, 2001, 10:06]
Government Ups Nanotech Funding
News Nanotechnology refers to working with materials in the 1- to 100-nanometre range, in a process that could create useful new substances, aid in medicine, and accelerate computer development. The Department of Trade and Industry is to spend £40m over...
[October 13, 2003, 13:05]
