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Mobile phone industry targets the Third World
With a saturated market in Western Europe and North America and a user base adopting costly new third-generation features at a seemingly glacial pace, the mobile phone industry is turning to the Third World and asking the heads of developing countries to lift regulatory barriers. According to Motorola CEO Ed Zander, addressing a forum at the 3GSM World Congress here Wednesday (Feb. 15), mobile phone penetration is a powerful engine for economic growth. He said, ?Every time you have ten ...
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Fancy Phones to Clash with Low-Cost PCs
New research shows that in India, the future high-volume groups are in two ranges ? the sub-$40 and $60-100 sets Pragya Singh Here is something the bottom of India?s mobile user pyramid can cheer about. If 2005 was the year of the cheap PC, 2006 will see the dawn of entry-level smart phones in rural parts. While the low cost PC can still put you down Rs 10,000 ($200), new intelligent phones in the $45 range will be out by Q4 2006. Vendors making the Silicon chips tha...
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The world’s largest chip manufacturer is hiring, but the resumes it wants might surprise you.
Why is Intel, the giant chip maker, in the process of hiring more than 100 anthropologists and other social scientists to work side by side with its engineers? While the success of this strategy will become clearer over the next 12 to 18 months, it’s obvious Intel is betting that sales will rise and new markets will emerge because of this nonintuitive pairing. .... Intel has already released several products shaped by anthropological research. In February 2005, it worked wit...
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Free HIV Tests Bring Dramatic Results in Tanzania
Eliminating even modest fees for HIV testing can greatly increase the number of those tested in Tanzania and thereby enhance Aids-prevention efforts, US researchers have said. In a two-week pilot programme, the daily average of people tested for HIV at a clinic in Moshi jumped from four to 15 when the standard test fee of Tsh1,000 ($0.95) was waived, according to a study by Duke University Medical Centre. It’s amazing to me that the numbers are so high, said Dr Jo...
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China Announces Major Plan to Combat Pollution, Revive Battered Environment
China announced a plan Wednesday to combat widespread pollution and leave a better environment for future generations, citing the need to stave off possible social instability. The plan, approved by the State Council, or Cabinet, focuses on pollution controls and calls for the country to clean up heavily polluted regions and reverse degradation of water, air and land by 2010. The move is aimed at protecting the long-term interests of the Chinese nation and le...
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Shs 350 Million Up For Grabs in Business Plan Competition
Dorothy Nakaweesi, Kampala Companies have been invited to submit business plans in a competition to earn the winner euro 150,000 (Shs350 million). The competition is organised by Business in Development (BiD), an international agency attached to the Royal Dutch embassy. The competition targets Small and Medium Scale businesses, which have a bias in poverty reduction. A three-page business plan can be submitted through the www.bidchallenge.org website ...
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Ethiopian development raises birth rate
Development projects designed to improve maternal and child welfare in Africa may incur unexpected costs associated with increases in family size if they do not include a component of family planning, according to new research from the University of Bristol into rural communities in Ethiopia. The research, published today in Public Library of Science: Medicine, is the first study to demonstrate a link between a single technological development intervention (in this case, a tapped water...
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Q&A: C.K. Prahalad
The University of Michigan business school professor thinks the West can learn a lot from Indian companies. Known as dubbawallas, Mumbai’s army of lunch deliverymen tote pails of hot lentils and bread to the city’s office workers. Without centralized management, they reliably deliver 175,000 lunches a day in the rainy season and in the heat. They comprise a kind of human Internet with a classification, coding, and routing system designed to convey soups and salads instead of ...
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