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Obama uses iPhone to win support
03 10 2008 US Democratic candidate Barack Obama is set to turn the iPhone into a political recruiting tool with an application aimed at getting the vote out.
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Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China
03 10 2008 The discovery draws more attention to the Chinese government’s Internet monitoring and filtering efforts, which created controversy this summer during the Beijing Olympics. Researchers in China have estimated that 30,000 or more “Internet police” monitor online traffic, Web sites and blogs for political and other offending content in what is called the Golden Shield Project or the Great Firewall of China.
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Why Bandwidth Still Matters
03 10 2008 When it comes to Internet bandwidth, deciding who pays for increased traffic from online video will be pivotal for online video growth. At the same time, the battle over network or Internet neutrality is in large part a battle over bandwidth and who pays for it.
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Digitally Networked Technology in Kenya's 2007-2008 Post-Election Crisis
03 10 2008 Using the lens of the 2007-2008 Kenyan Presidential Election Crisis, this case study illustrates how digitally networked technologies, specifically mobile phones and the Internet, were a catalyst to both predatory behavior such as ethnic-based mob violence and to civic behaviors such as citizen journalism and human rights campaigns. The paper concludes with the notion that while digital tools can help promote transparency and keep perpetrators from facing impunity, they can also increase the ease of promoting hate speech and ethnic divisions.
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UN Asia-Pacific forum focuses on technology for people with disabilities
30 09 2008 The four-day training, which began in Incheon, Republic of Korea, brings together policymakers from Cambodia, Indonesia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam together with ICT accessibility experts from the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Germany, United States, Japan, Thailand and the Republic of Korea.
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Ericsson United Nations telemedicine project
30 09 2008 Though other telecommunications companies are already partners in the U.N. project, Ericsson said it will use its expertise to spearhead the project's technology stream and explore the use of mobile communications to deliver telemedicine to rural communities.
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World Bank, AfDB announce $55b investment in Africa
30 09 2008 The Connect Africa Summit ended yesterday in Rwanda with World Bank, European Commission and African Development Bank (AfDB) announcing investment commitments amounting to over $55 billion, with the information and communication technology (ICT) sector taking the lead. The summit decided to bring forward ICT connectivity goals to 2012 to enable the achievement of the broader Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
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Mapping the Digital Divide
30 09 2008 Physicist Les Cottrell is the meteorologist of Internet weather. His project tests the strength of Internet connections around the world—and finds Africa lagging farther and farther behind.
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In a Digital World, Lies Are Just a Click Away
29 09 2008 It's nothing new to see politicians peppering the media with half-truths, inaccuracies and outright lies during an election season. However, the speed at which these inaccuracies can spread given our growing use of technology is unsettling.
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Facebook for suits
27 09 2008 The two most popular sites, LinkedIn and Xing, have been growing at breakneck speed and boast 29m and 6.5m members respectively. And, in contrast to mass-market social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, both firms have worked out how to make money.
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Reduce costs and carbon footprint with unified communications
27 09 2008 Unified communications reduces a company’s carbon footprint in two primary ways. The first is that an IP-based platform has fewer moving parts, and physically less hardware than older solutions. The servers are smaller and therefore draw less power, and they do not need the additional power supplies and cooling fans as required by legacy systems.
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Mobiles combat Kenyan polio outbreak
27 09 2008 A mobile phone based health application has helped to investigate and contain a polio outbreak that threatened thousands in East Africa.
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Africa’s Hard Black Gold
27 09 2008 There is no shortage of hydropower plants for electricity generation in Africa. However, many of these plants are unable to keep up with rapid population growth and attendant increases in demand. Furthermore, they are prone to frequent drought, which reduces their output significantly, leaving many as little more than decorative infrastructure landmarks. Increasingly burgeoning populations in countries like Nigeria and Ghana imply a greater extraction of water resources for power generation.
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Number of cell phone subscribers to hit 4 billion this year, UN says
27 09 2008 The number of subscribers has surged nearly 25 per cent annually for the past eight years. Mobile penetration stood at only 12 per cent in 2000, growing to reach over 60 per cent by the end of 2008.
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West Bengal completes rural e-governance project
25 09 2008 To bridge the digital divide, the programme was targeted at providing effective governance through computer penetration within the Panchayati Raj institutions, covering 210 rural local bodies across 19 districts.
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Use of Cloud Computing Applications and Services
25 09 2008 Online users who take advantage of cloud applications say they like the convenience of having access to data and applications from any Web-connected device. However, their message to providers of such services is: Let's keep the data between us.
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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Fact or Fiction?
25 09 2008 There's been speculation for months concerning the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. If ratified, many suggest it would criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and allow internet service providers to monitor their customers' communications.
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Awaiting the Google Phone
25 09 2008 For the average cell-phone user, the significance of Google's first phone may depend more on whether HTC's device is slicker and more desirable than other smart phones out there. Jack Gold, founding analyst of Jack Gold Associates, believes that the first Android phones will inevitably be compared to the iPhone and that they may fail to measure up.
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Displaced people: NAFTA’s most important product
25 09 2008 While California farmworkers 20 and 30 years ago came from parts of Mexico with larger Spanish-speaking populations, migrants today increasingly come from indigenous communities in states like Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Guerrero. Domínguez says there are about 500,000 indigenous people from Oaxaca living in the United States, 300,000 in California alone.
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Browser Wars II
25 09 2008 Google’s new technology is impressive, and will no doubt prove convenient for many consumers once the initial security problems are resolved. But the fundamental innovation lies elsewhere. Chrome is a breakthrough because it offers a completely novel approach to a dilemma created by the legal and regulatory regime of competition policy in the world’s two major legal jurisdictions, the United States and the European Union.
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The ICT tightrope
25 09 2008 By providing access to their services and resources for citizens, teleworkers, general remote access, partners, suppliers and other collaborating agencies, public sector organisations are opening up their resources to potential external attacks from unauthorised users or system misuse.
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Fighting Disease Through ICT
25 09 2008 The phenomenal growth of mobile telephony across Africa has improved communication, spurred commerce and opened up remote regions. Now, the technology could become the weapon of choice to fight one of the continent's most intractable problems -- disease.
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Lebanese knowledge gateway bridges digital divide and fosters gender equality
25 09 2008 International development agencies such as USAID and the Mercy Corps in partnership with the Lebanese government have endeavored to bridge Lebanon’s digital gap by offering computer equipment and training to municipalities and setting up ICT access points in rural areas. However, these efforts proved limited.
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Cape Verde signs agreement with China to fund e-governance
25 09 2008 The Cape Verdean government has signed a funding agreement with China’s Eximbank for the first phase of the e-governance project for the archipelago, worth US$17 million, the Economy Ministry said in Praia.
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The Cyber Crime Hall of Fame
09 09 2008 Often the greatest tech crimes in history have little more reason behind them than "because it was there." More often than not, a hacker sees an open window—a hole in system's security, a backdoor, etc.—and climbs on through. And they don't do it for any real worldly gain, but merely to prove that they can.
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