An SMS poll can be a powerful thing if the audience you're tracking relies solely on mobile phones for their connectivity. GeoPoll is putting text and voice surveys to work in five African countries.…
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Microsoft and Facebook turn to white space broadband to connect Ghanaian students
The big U.S. tech companies' quest to connect more people in developing countries is stepping up, with Facebook now joining Microsoft in a West African white space broadband project.…
Read MoreMobile Web Growth in Africa: Hotter Than the Sahara!
Opera's latest report indicates that mobile page views are up more than 4,900 percent in Sudan, while growth in mobile web users has risen 1,179 percent in Zimbabwe. If I were a mobile web service provider, I'd pack for a safari quickly head to Africa.…
Read MoreLatest DOE Loan Guarantee: A123 Battery Project for Grid Storage
And the DOE loan guarantee train keeps on chugging. This morning the DOE says it has offered its 14th loan guarantee -- a $17.1 million conditional commitment to AES to build a 20 MW energy storage system using A123System's (s AONE) lithium ion batteries.…
Read MoreOvi & Nokia's Future is in the Developing World
Nokia (s nok) said today that more than a million users have signed up for its free mobile- and web-based email service,…
Read MoreBlog Action Day: Web Work as an Alternative to Overseas Worker Migration
I’ve often mentioned that I live in the Philippines, a country that has seen more than its fair share of political and…
Read MoreWill MediaSmart “Connect” With Consumers?
The set-top box wars are heating as HP goes from just talking about its MediaSmart Connect to actually putting it on the…
Read MoreHSDPA modem + iLiad reader = eBook nirvana anywhere
Remember that HSDPA-capable USB modem we mentioned yesterday? We knew it was a T-Mobile rebadge of a Vodafone device but what we…
Read MoreSteve & Jerry Cat Fight
Jobs tells WSJ that he has doubts that Yahoo’s $60-per-year music subscription plan would work forever, and pointed out that Apple insiders…
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