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more about #africa more comments → lite2: I guess you'd have to use notepad as a benchmark test. more » iSmithx_wants_Nexus_One: If you put the x86 port of Symbian on that thing, it will run like a rocket. more » TheAlmeida: In the hands of a 10 year old, it's way better than an AK47. more » geekymitch: Slow, indeed...but keep in mind the market for which it's intended: in this country we see 7 year olds running around with laptops or netbooks (hell, ... more » The Curse of Millhaven: So UNICEF supports the use of child soldiers. That's what I got out of this. more » ellipsis18: One of my earliest memories was receiving a care package with a few toys for Christmas in a refugee camp. It came with a small red F1 hot wheels car a... more » laxmax613: no guns=fail more » graceless: The old ways are still best. more » Kaiser-Machead: RIAA puts tawny eagle on payroll. "WTF" cries file sharers. more » DennisLulu: Looks like RFC 1149 was finally implemented! more » Geisrud: worthless expiriment. more » met2art: My piegeon-based Birdband connection is great, but it keeps eating my BitTorrent seeds. more » IronDiggy: I wonder what the packet loss is like with pigeonband. more » OCEntertainment: Errr.... Sitting on my 1.5 Mbps connection at home, I'm pretty sure that pigeon would beat my transfer speeds on a distance of sixty miles, too. more » Canadian Impostor: What's the old saying? "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard drives"? more » -
#netbooks
Cherrypal Delivers "Africa" Netbook For Only $99
Cherrypal, the guys behind last year's super green cloud computer have managed to put together a netbook dubbed "Africa" that will sell for only $99. More » -
#unicef
UNICEF's Toy Soldiers To Help Real Kids
UNICEF's direct mail campaign has put a teary smile on my face. They're sending out baggies of what appear to be lil' plastic toy soldiers, but are actually playing children, reminders of young'ns forced into battle in Africa. More » -
#broadband
Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
South Africa's broadband has got to be feeling pretty ill-equipped today considering a real, wing-flapping pigeon beat its transfer speeds. No really, a company found out that sending a bird with a 4GB USB drive was faster than uploading. More » -
#imagecache
Behind You!
"Bob, I wish the damn elephants were closer. This new telephoto lens is amazing, but the extra weight is killing me!" More » -
#green
Green Erg Generator: An Energy Tail That Harnesses the Power of Walking
In rural Africa, electricity is hard to come by. That's why Dr. Cedrick Ngalande has developed the Green Erg Generator—a dynamo that produces electricity from friction generated with the ground while walking. More » -
#machinesvsnature
In Mozambique, Rats Make Good Mine Detectors
Finding humans to clear minefields is hard. So in Mozambique, they've trained rats to sniff out unexploded ordinance, single out its location by pawing at the ground (careful!), and de-mine the field. More » -
#olpc
OLPC Ad Goes For the Jugular With Child Laborers, Child Prostitutes, Child Warriors
I like this move: The OLPC team, tired of their message being co-opted by geeks worrying about what operating system to install, have raised the stakes in a new web video. More » -
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#security
Globalization and Its Malcontents: Mexico, India and Africa Will Be New Epicenters of Internet Crime
Computer viruses no longer come from the US or Europe; the hottest hotbeds of hackerdom may be in China and Russia now, but even that will shift. Soon, the most dangerous internet criminals might hail from Mexico, India and Africa, says a new study. Shouldn't somebody call Nick Negroponte? More »
