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North Korea to get 3G network despite cell phone ban
An Egyptian company said it will launch 3G mobile telephone service in North Korea on Monday, after winning the contract to build the advanced network in a country where private cell phones are banned.
Under the terms of the deal reached in January, Orascom Telecom will invest $400 million in network infrastructure and license fees over [...]
China to issue 3G licenses
China will issue third-generation mobile phone licenses as early as this month and expects companies to spend 200 billion yuan ($30 billion) on installing equipment, the industry minister said Friday.
China has the world’s biggest population of mobile phone users and adoption of 3G — which has been long delayed — was eagerly anticipated by equipment [...]
World Bank in action: Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age
“We must realize the fact that disasters threaten sustained economic growth of the society and the country.”
These were the words of Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani addressing the opening ceremony of the first National Disaster Risk Management Conference. The function, reported Associated Press of Pakistan, was organized to mark the Disaster Awareness Day observed [...]
Study says many USA dial-up users don’t want broadband
A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don’t have high-speed Internet access.
The findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project challenge the argument that broadband providers need to more aggressively roll out supply to meet demand.
Only 14 percent of dial-up users say they’re stuck [...]
Cell Phones Double as e-wallets in RP
Cell phones double as electronic wallets in RP
By Oliver Teves
Associated Press
Last updated 10:42am (Mla time) 09/30/2007
Philippine Daily Inquirer
SAN MIGUEL, Philippines–It’s Thursday, so 18-year-old Dennis Tiangco is off to a bank to collect his weekly allowance, zapped by his mother–who’s working in Hong Kong–to his electronic wallet: his cell phone.
Sauntering into a branch of GM Bank [...]
World now has 4b phone lines, says UN
World now has 4b phone lines, says UN | Sep 05, 2007 | telecomasia.net
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) Largely because of the mobile phone boom in developing countries, telephone service has quadrupled in the past decade to 4 billion lines worldwide, according to a report from the UN telecommunications agency.
We’re all journalists now
NowPublic, the participatory citizen-journalist website that began life in a garage in
Vancouver, Canada, has announced it has secured US$10.6 million in venture capital funding.
The website allows anyone – from amateurs to professionals – to post news stories and upload images, videos, and audio files. The company, that claims to be the world’s fastest-growing news organisation, [...]
Laptop for USD 100 with WiFi and new interface
More on the Negroponte laptop. It has built-in wireless and a completely different interface.
BBC NEWS | Technology | $100 laptop project launches 2007
The so-called XO machine is being pioneered by Nicholas Negroponte, who launched the project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab in 2004.
Test machines are expected to reach children in [...]
Sri Lanka “ready for any tsunami”
The Sri Lanka Disaster Minister is quoted by the Sunday Times (23 July 2006, p. 2) as stating that “In the wake of last week’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Indonesia, the country was fully prepared within 23 minutes as an early warning reached the Met Department.”
According to the 17 July timeline.ppt, the PTWC and [...]
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