developing world
RSS developing worldMaemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News There's no debating that the Symbian platform remains the daddy of the smartphone world: one in every two sold today carries the Symbian OS. I think what you're going to see in the future is we're going to be... [02 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment What started back in 2006 as a niche product aimed at children in the developing world, have quickly become the latest must-have piece of hardware - with many people considering them not as a second... [02 Nov 2009]
How tech is helping gamblers get that casino feeling
News UK online gamblers might not quite fit this image but they can increasingly get into the spirit of their Vegas counterparts through technology that allows them a way to banter across the baize with their opponents.bwin, one of the... [23 Oct 2009]
Trend Micro Smart Protection Network - Security Made Smarter
White Paper This white paper provides an overview of today's dangerous cyber crime world and outlines the challenges that security professionals face in developing solutions to address the growing number and variety... [02 Oct 2009]
Developing Sustainable Designs for Enduring Value
White Paper In a global market with expanding horizons, the product has far reaching implications across the entire world. Simple considerations in design can result in enormous savings in 'World-Wealth' that future... [02 Oct 2009]
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile While last year's Agenda Setters' winner might have slipped to number eight this year, if anything he is playing an even greater role in the world of technology in 2009. The inventor of the world wide... [30 Sep 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile While his own agenda of bringing better education to the developing world through a mini laptop may have been overtaken by Silicon Valley's big names, Negroponte still remains the man that kick-started... [30 Sep 2009]
Google's $10m change-the-world prize: 16 themes chosen
News It's taken far longer than Google had originally anticipated, but the results of the company's 10th anniversary project to solicit ideas that could change the world are ready for inspection. Create more efficient... [28 Sep 2009]
Tech skills: UK Plc told to get its hands dirty and help students
News Failure to increase the number of Stem grads will mean the UK can kiss goodbye to being a world leader in sectors such as environmental technology, pharmaceuticals, high value-added manufacturing and financial services,... [21 Sep 2009]
Naked CIO: Beware the mobile app frenzy
Comment I think this new world is exciting and long overdue. The principle of developing business-centric applications for mobile applications is not the issue. Do research on your partners or developers and... [21 Sep 2009]
Why malware writers are turning to open source
News Following its release in 2007, the Limbo Trojan became the most widely used Trojan in the world but fell from favour in 2008 after the more sophisticated Zeus Trojan was released, according to security company RSA. [18 Sep 2009]
Mobile-Banking Adoption and Usage by Low-Literate, Low-Income Users in the Developing World
White Paper Due to the increasing penetration of mobile phones even in poor communities, mobile-phone-enabled banking (m-banking) services are being increasingly targeted at the "Unbanked" to bring formal financial services to the poor. [16 Sep 2009]
Yahoo! goes after iPhone users with Flickr and finance apps
News And we thought it was better for us to fit into this world. shifted its mobile strategy to focus more on developing separate and distinct applications instead of creating services that fell into an... [09 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News The hard truth is that most of the countries in the developing world are outgrowing the amount of water that is available to them," said Peter Williams, the chief technology officer of IBM's Big Green... [08 Sep 2009]
Nokia's new mobiles take aim at Facebooking music lovers
News It has done especially well providing low-cost devices to the developing world, but it has been challenged to keep up with innovations in the smartphone category. Nokia, the world's... [03 Sep 2009]
