Wall Street Journal: Mavis Nonkongozelo walks up to the Five Sisters convenience store here, then pulls a mobile phone from her bag and a few rands from her brassiere. She is ready to bank. With a few taps on her cellphone, the 34-year old preschool teacher connects to a nascent mobile-banking network aimed at Africa’s […]
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Arstechnica reports that the campaign to rid our nation’s prisons of cell phones went to the next level, with a call from the Department of Commerce for intel on devices that can get the situation under control. The government is “seeking comment on technical approaches” to the problem, Commerce says. The illicit use of cell
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At Sermon Audio their passion is to help get great teaching and preaching material to a wider listening audience. With that in mind they’re excited to announce their newest offering: We’re excited to announce our newest service exclusively to broadcasters on SermonAudio — the iPhone Church App! A fully-functional, and completely affordable native iPhone app
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Bier Designs, a metal fabrication shop in a nondescript industrial park in Fresno, California started making aluminum iPhone covers six months ago just to keep their employees and machines busy. Now, the business is taking off. The Fresno Bee has more: But the covers have become much more than that, attracting hundreds of orders a
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Did you, like me, rush out and get a Verizon iPhone last week? We don’t have AT&T service here in the mountains, so I’ve been waiting for Verizon to join the club and get the iPhone since we moved up here a couple years ago. I’ve looked on with envy at all of the cool
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An 8-year-old boy from Honeoye Falls, NY, has dreamed up a way to tame cell phone cord clutter – and got a U.S. patent for his invention, according to the Associated Press. Bryce Gunderman first thought of the idea when he was 6, and he heard his dad complaining about the tangled mess of chords
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San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order last year asking city departments to publish data under their control. Since then, hundreds of sets of data have been released. And the bounty is feeding creativity among app designers. Fast Company reports that at least 50 new apps have been built using the open data,
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In Indonesia, 75% of the population — or 180 million people — live below the international poverty line of $2.50/day. 63% of the population earns their economic livelihood in the informal sector, with little bargaining power, little or no access to efficient supply chains and highly variable and unpredictable sources of income. Despite this, over
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In a bid to further expand its local ad revenue, Pandora has opened up its mobile advertising platform to small to mid-sized businesses, according to a story at Mashable.com. That means that advertisers can now run both banner and audio campaigns across Pandora mobile applications, which the company says account for more than half of
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