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Intel Unveils New Chip for Mobility Healthcare Delivery
World's largest chip maker Intel Corporation has unveiled a new sensing platform for enabling mobile-based healthcare delivery to masses.
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Indian hospital shows how mobility can improve healthcare in rural areas
By using telemedicine application for mobile devices, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital is demonstrating how mobility can truly transform the way healthcare services are delivered to rural communities.
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Why the World’s Cheapest Car Flopped
When the Tata Nano, a stripped-down minicar priced at around $2,000, was introduced in 2009, it was marketed as a car that would transform the way aspiring consumers in India and other developing countries got around. But the low-cost automotive revolution fizzled. Selling poorly at home and with exports drying up, the Nano has become a cautionary tale of misplaced ambitions and a drag on sales and profit at Tata Motors Ltd, India's fourth-largest auto maker and the owner of Jaguar and Land Rover luxury vehicles.
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Safaricom targets public transportation with M-Pesa
Safaricom is eyeing the matatu industry with a service that will enable commuters to pay fares using mobile money through M-Pesa pay bill numbers. The telco said special till numbers will be allocated to public service vehicle (PSV) operators to allow commuters make payments without incurring transaction charges.
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Gambia: ‘Motorcycles Bring Universal Health Care Closer to Gambians’
The Gambia has been recognised for its success in bringing universal access to maternal health care closer to its citizens by becoming Africa's first country to have enough motorcycles and ambulances to deliver health care to the whole country, a press release from Riders For Health (RFH) revealed.
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Earthquake Recovery in Japan: Entrepreneurs to the Rescue
“Disaster relief” usually brings to mind images of tents, food and water convoys, and emergency medicine. But since 2011's earthquake, tsunami, and reactor meltdown in the Tohoku region of Japan, a Tokyo-based social entrepreneurship group called ETIC has added a whole new dimension: an entrepreneurial recovery effort.
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A Maintenance-Free Bike to Give Africans Some Mobility
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami left thousands of people stranded, with ruined infrastructure putting basic needs-health care, school, building materials--out of reach. So bicycle-components manufacturer SRAM Corporation founded World Bicycle Relief , and, through partnerships with aid organizations, brought more than 24,000 bicycles to people in Sri Lanka. The organization has since expanded its bike-givin...
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