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Healing Iraq – blogosphere, cell phones and web.

Internet dating in Iraq made the headlines today on Boing Boing with a snip from a Los Angeles Times piece about internet dating, and the online sociology of war zones. Zavis (LAT) notes, “Such virtual relationships offer a refuge of sorts from numbing isolation and fear during a time of staggering violence. But all too […]

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Quadrupeds To GHz

A business model of “four cows and a computer,” (see Spiegel for the full story) has only become possible thanks to a new local Internet connection known as Cordect. “By European standards, this ‘Indianet’ is only a patchy and relatively slow provisional solution, a kind of digital dirt road leading to the information super-highway.  The […]

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Africa – ‘Phones-for-health’

Ten African Countries will be home to a $10 million new cell phone project launched by the U.S. government, technology companies and health groups. The project will focus initially on HIV/AIDS. World Health Organization Assistant Director-General Howard Zucker stated: “The explosive spread of mobile phone networks across the developing world has created a unique opportunity […]

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