The African Cloud

November 23, 2008

  While writing about the new Google iPhone App and it’s voice recognition feature Tim O’Reilly made a comment on his blog, O’Reilly Radar, that I just can’t stop thinking about: Cloud integration. It’s easy to forget that the speech recognition isn’t happening on your phone. It’s happening on Google’s servers. It’s Google’s vast database […]

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Pirate Maps

November 21, 2008

I am not sure how relevant this is to the aid industry other than the fact that most attacks occur in locations where we routinely work.  The Live Piracy Map is a project of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Commercial Crime Services Division. I once sailed through the Gulf of Aden en route from Sri […]

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Xobni now has Skype integration

November 21, 2008

For all you Xobni lovers out there you can now ring your Skype contacts directly from your Outlook client.  For those of you who have no idea what Xobni is it is a free app that puts your Outlook on steroids.  Ars Technica has the story.  Wasn’t this enabled some time ago? Read on… Tweet

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‘Integrate YouSendIt with Microsoft Office’

November 21, 2008

This is for those YouSendIt fans out there.  You can now send massive files directly from Microsoft Office with their new Office Add-in.  (Via Lifehacker) Read on… Tweet

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‘News: US foreign aid and impartiality. A bad score.’

November 21, 2008

Peter over at The Road to the Horizon has some great posts and photos like the one I picked-up from his alt site (For Those Who Want To Know) below.  Today he serves up the score on US aid to foreign countries and according to the report the results are not good.  From his post: […]

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‘GPS receiver in every SIM card’

November 21, 2008

This could be a game changer.  A German company has developed a SIM card with an integrated A-GPS receiver.  Navigadget has the story: German smartcard maker Sagem Orga just announced a partnership with BlueSky Positioning to integrate A-GPS receiver on regular SIM cards. The proprietary new approach incorporates a highly accurate GPS receiver and an […]

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“Counterinsurgency is armed social work” – In other words, the convergence of military and humanitarian operations?

November 21, 2008

I was reading through WIRED‘s excellent Danger Room and came across this gem in an article about ‘counter insurgency guru’ David Kilcullen: “Counterinsurgency is armed social work“.  This sounds like encroachment on the humanitarian mandate, albeit with guns, and with the recent publication of the Army Stability Operations Manual I am beginning to wonder how […]

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‘Verizon’s Blackberry Storm’

November 21, 2008

Sam Churchill over at Dailywireless has a nice write-up on the new Blackberry Storm where he pulls quotes from an AppleInsider review: Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg – “Overall, the Storm is a very capable handheld computer that will appeal to BlackBerry users who have been pining for a touch-controlled device with a larger screen.” […]

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‘Pray The Devil Back To Hell’

November 20, 2008

For Those Who Want to know has a link to an AfricanLoft article about the movie Pray The Devil Back To Hell.  It looks like an incredible movie that highlights the struggle of Liberian women during the conflict in that country.  The music alone makes me want to go back.  You can download the theme […]

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o3B rumblings

November 20, 2008

Something is happening over at o3B.  From their press release: O3b Networks Ltd. today introduced its first turn-key offering. ‘Quick Start Africa’ is a, Carrier Managed Service designed for Telcos and ISPs on the African continent who need a high capacity, ultra low latency, carrier class IP trunking solution. Through its constellation of MEO satellites […]

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