The Nokia Ovi Store and how it might prove just the thing for international aid agencies.

February 28, 2009

Quite a while ago I covered the launch (belatedly) of Nokia’s Ovi store.  Back then you could only download Nokia built Apps to your handset but with the massive success of Apple’s App Store Nokia has now morphed Ovi into a platform where developers can upload their own content.  In Nokia’s words, “Your Content.  Their […]

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Interlude – Sugarland performing ‘Stay’ at the 2009 Grammy Awards

February 24, 2009

Robert Plant / Alison Krauss / Adele- Grammys – 2009by 3030fm Tweet

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Maneno – a lightweight blogging platform for folks heading to the field

February 22, 2009

A few days ago I posted on Loband and how it’s the perfect tool for browsing the web in low bandwidth environments.  Miquel dropped by to read the post but also to let us know about Maneno which is a lightweight blogging platform that he and his team have created.  His comment sparked a discussion […]

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Zfone – the latest encryption tool for your VOIP client

February 22, 2009

Patrick Meier mentioned an interesting product over on his iRevolution blog.  It is called Zfone and it provides high level encryption for most VOIP client software.  It doesn’t work with Skype but I wonder if that was intentional since Skype calls are already encrypted.  Zfone uses the ZRTP protocol and while I have no idea […]

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FrontlineSMS and Telecoms Sans Frontieres are making it happen in Niger

February 18, 2009

These days the success stories coming out of the humanitarian/tech community are few and far between.  There are many apps and groups struggling to put out a workable product, one that does actually impact the beneficiaries and doesn’t just look cool.  FrontlineSMS is consistently at the head of the pack and is enjoying growing acceptance […]

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Guardian – Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline pledges cheap medicine for world’s poor

February 16, 2009

The Guardian has an interesting article about GlaxoSmithKlein’s move to make medicine more available to the world’s poor.  The key components of the plan from the article: • Cut its prices for all drugs in the 50 least developed countries to no more than 25% of the levels in the UK and US – and […]

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The Loband option

February 16, 2009

I am not sure how many of you are familiar with Loband but it is one of the best options for viewing websites over low bandwidth connections.  It strips out all images, formatting, etc and leaves you with a text only rendering of the page which is still quite legible.  You can view Aid Worker […]

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A few quick links…

February 10, 2009

Sorry folks, I’ve been a bit busy and haven’t had a chance to update.  As soon as you’ve cleared your plate life seems to fill it up again. Here’s a collection of interesting tidbits that I have come across in the last week: Jesse noted over at O’Reilly Radar that during the inauguration Google, Flickr […]

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Interlude – irregular flow

February 9, 2009

irregular flow from 4khz on Vimeo. Tweet

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GATR and ‘The value of a flyaway VSAT’

February 3, 2009

I thought this comment deserved it’s own post.  It looks like David and I have chewed some of the same dirt (I’ve always wanted to say that) and I remember well the whole pole affair in Banda and how I took more than a few expats down to MAF’s invaluable tech center to get the […]

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