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SMS voting monitor for Sudan

Dec 13, 2010
People in Southern Sudan will vote next month on whether to become its own, independent country, and things are getting tense. Fareed Zein, who was...

Twitter partners with African telcoms to provide alternative to SMS

Dec 9, 2010
This is cool. Twitter has teamed up with MTN Cameroon, a mobile communications company in that country to provide a way to cut costs for messaging....

Chinese labor movement aided by technology

Jun 17, 2010
The New York Times has a really interesting article about factory workers and labor unrest in China. Workers are often poor, migrant workers with...