‘Welcome to My Taxi - Let’s Do Business With My Cell Phone’ September 1, 2010
In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, according to Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.More than a convenience, cell phones have become a means of livelihood and information for people in rural communities across Africa. NGOs and researchers are studying their effects on rural communities.
Mobile phones have made deep strides into the African market in recent years, and are becoming important tools for helping rural and urban populations stay connected and promote business.
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Email This PostA Tool for Activists Is Simplified for the Less Tech Savvy August 13, 2010
Software that has been hailed as a powerful tool in response to crisis has become accessible for low-tech activists. Ushahidi, a technology which allows users to create maps from data drawn from messages from cellphones, news reports and the Web, is now available through a Web-based application called Crowdmap.
Ushahidi was built in the violent aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan elections, after a group of developers responded to a call for a platform that would allow people to post accounts of violence anonymously. (The name means testimony in Swahili.) The platform plots reports it receives on a map, drawing …
Email This PostNow You Can Bump iPhones to Connect on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn July 27, 2010
Bump, the app that makes it super simple to exchange information with other users by bumping phones, has just released Bump 2.0 [iTunes link] for the iPhone.
The app features an updated and refined interface plus the ability to compare calendars, instantly connect on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, and the ability to send messages back and forth without another Bump. Like its predecessor, Bump 2.0 is free.
Bump is a great app for people that travel in groups with lots of smartphone users because it makes it simple to transfer information without the need to pass out business cards. It’s easy to …
Email This Post$1m Giveway - Reply TXT ‘YES’ to Work July 20, 2010
Lingo Systems has today announced it is giving away $1 million of software licenses hospitals, clinics and nursing homes.
The giveaway is to celebrate the launch of its new product, Automated Casual Rostering System, which uses two-way SMS/TXT technology to roster or schedule staff to fill shift vacancies.
“Labour costs are typically the single largest category of costs to a hospital or nursing home,” says Kurt Lingohr, Managing Director of Lingo Systems, a boutique IT healthcare company based on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
Lingohr says, “The objective of this system is to roster staff more effectively and reduce agency usage.” “When a …
Email This PostBars Turn to Texting to Warn of Rowdy Patrons June 14, 2010
As patrons at Bull Feeney’s danced to a ’90s cover band and sipped from cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Eric Coulombe, the manager, fiddled with what he says is the latest weapon against the rowdiness and fighting that has long plagued the bar scene in this seaside city — an iPod Touch.
Bar owners and the police here have started a text messaging system to alert one another when a patron is removed from a bar, is overly belligerent or is seen fighting. The texts will include the person’s name, if it is known, a physical description or photo, and what …
Email This PostWorld Cup traffic could clog mobile networks June 2, 2010
he World Cup could lead to an increase in data usage on mobile phone networks and lead to the services becoming “oversaturated”, according to industry analysts at management consultancy firm Deloitte.
As technology has improved, it is now easy for users to stream entire football matches on their mobile phones, using BBC iPlayer’s iPhone-optimised website, for instance, but each user would need about 400mb of data per game. According to Ed Marsden, telecoms partner in Deloitte’s Information and Technology Risk team, that means …
Andreessen Horowitz Makes Strategic Investment In Mobile Payments Platform Boku May 28, 2010
Recently-launched mobile payments startup, Boku, has announced that they have received a strategic investment from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Boku has declined to reveal the funding amount from this round, but to date the company has raised a whopping $38 million since its launch a year ago. As part of the deal, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz will also take on an advisory role for Boku.order acompliaorder proscarorder brand cialisorder brand viagraxenicaldiflucanpaxileffexorlexapropropeciawhere buy cialishow to buy cialisbuy cialis next day deliverypurchase cialis …
Email This PostTelephone therapy for depression May 11, 2010
Treating clinical depression on the telephone is nearly as effective as face-to-face consultations, a new Brigham Young University study finds.The trial run included 30 people newly diagnosed with major depression. Instead of eight scheduled visits to the clinic, the participants covered the same material during a series of phone calls with the therapist. Calls varied in length, ranging from 21 to 52 minutes. The patients did not receive antidepressant medication.Read more: Science Daily
Email This PostApple recruiting health care providers at their retail stores May 6, 2010
When I recently walked into my local Apple store to buy an iPad accessory, I saw a group of about 20 people huddled around a large LCD screen while an Apple employee was giving a workshop.When I saw the LCD screen full of medical applications (picture on the left), I was shocked. This wasn’t your run of the mill “how to use your iPhone” workshop.
The people gathered for the workshop consisted of healthcare professionals in medicine, dentistry, and other fields. About a third of the group consisted of physicians.
The workshop was focused on how the iPhone and iPad can be …
Email This PostUnicef launches free SMS number for Nepalese youths April 29, 2010
Unicef Tuesday launched a free SMS number for youths in Nepal so they could text in their views and comments on issues that concern them to the global organisation.
The number 4400 is a toll-free mobile text message service that allows users to send messages directly to the Unicef in Nepal, Xinhua reported.
The number is being launched in partnership with the popular radio show ‘Saathi Sanga Manka Kura’ (SSMK), a youth oriented radio programme run by Equal Access Nepal.
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