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JHU undergrads design tool to support family planning efforts in developing regions
New kit may help train global health providers to insert and remove contraceptive implants.
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Life With A $100 Smartphone: How Low-Cost Phones Are Rapidly Changing Lives In India
Bharath Kumar has the husky build of a rugby player, which comes in handy as he lugs around a large backpack filled with packages to deliver on his patch of Bangalore. That and ownership of a good scooter or motorcycle were among prerequisites the 25-year-old met about a year back when he switched jobs so he could motor around town, sometimes listening to music, delivering packages from Amazon.com’s Indian unit.
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To Make India Truly Digital, Target the Poor, Not Rich
America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the powerful regulator for all communication, has proposed that poor citizens of the US should have subsidised access to the internet via broadband.
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- South Asia
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How Google is changing mobile for the next billion users
Faced with a large population with slow, little or no mobile broadband, Google is tweaking its core apps to spread the mobile revolution around the world.
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- Technology
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- mobile finance
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Indonesia Turns to Technology to Build its Banking Sector
Indonesia is hoping to get more of its 250 million citizens using formal financial services, and it’s looking to some of the creative tech startups that are already one step ahead for some assistance.
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- Asia Pacific
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Why India’s e-commerce startups are going mobile-only
E-commerce companies in India are ignoring the PC and going straight to mobile in the country’s young, but rapidly growing online marketplace.
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- South Asia
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Mozilla Gives Up on Its Dream of a $25 Firefox Smartphone
Mozilla is learning that making smartphones dirt cheap doesn't guarantee success when you're running up against Google's Android operating system. CNET reports that in an email to employees sent out on Thursday, CEO Chris Beard made it clear that the company will soon be changing its mobile strategy. "We have not seen sufficient traction for a $25 phone," Beard wrote. He went on to say, "We will focus on efforts that provide a better user experience, rather than focusing on cost alone."
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South Africa Plans to Corporatise Post Bank
South Africa’s Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister Siyabonga Cwele says the process to corporatise Post Bank is at an advanced state.
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