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Geeking Out: Uganda’s Women are Creating the Next Generation of Girl Geeks
By Mike Miesen Young women are learning to program computers in the unlikeliest of places, developing apps that will help their neighbors—and themselves. If not for a view of the ornate Uganda National Mosque or the sprawling, congested taxi park … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, computers, engineering, GirlGeekKampala, mathematics, science, technology, Uganda, women
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African Americans and Technology Use
By Aaron Smith This report on African Americans and technology is the first in a series of demographic snapshots of technology use and adoption among different groups of adults in the United States. Based on a survey of 6,010 American adults, … Continue reading
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Tagged ASfrican Americans, computers, internet, Pew Research Center, technology
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Could Big Batteries Be Big Business In California?
By Richard Harris The California Public Utilities Commission has called on utilities and private companies to install about $5 billion worth of batteries and other forms of energy storage to help the state power grid cope with the erratic power … Continue reading
Report: Sprint Planning Bid for T-Mobile
By Ben Munson With Sprint reportedly working on a bid to buy T-Mobile, a widely speculated possibility could be moving closer to fruition. The Wall Street Journal cited sources who revealed Sprint is studying up on the regulatory hurdles such … Continue reading
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Tagged AT&T, business, Clearwire, Deutsche Telekom, Softbank, Sprint, T-Mobile, technology, Wall Street Journal
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SoftBank is lighting a fire under Sprint – I’ll be waiting for the results
By Phil Goldstein Before SoftBank’s $21.6 billion deal to take control of Sprint (NYSE:S) was finalized, Sprint formally referred to the after-transaction company as “New Sprint.” Nearly six months after Sprint shareholders approved the deal, it seems like the new Sprint … Continue reading
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Tagged 4G, cellular, Clearwire, LTE, LTE Advanced, Softbank, spartphones, Sprint, technology
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New York City rolling out nation’s largest free, public Wi-Fi network
By Tammy Parker The Big Apple has big plans for public Wi-Fi as it rolls out a network that will cover 95 city blocks in Harlem and provide coverage to 80,000 residents as well as businesses and visitors to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Apple, Harlem, internet, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, technology, United States, Wi-Fi, Wireless network
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This Company Can Find Stolen Smartphones (If Only AT&T, Verizon And Sprint Will Let It)
By Gerry Smith When Lawrence Flynn’s smartphone was stolen in Atlanta in July, he assumed it was gone for good. Weeks went by. Police had no leads. “I had given up hope,” he said. But an investigator at Absolute Software … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Software, AT&T, Dominican Republic, lost phone, smartphone, Sprint, technology, Verizon Communications
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Could privacy-protecting software become a new Internet standard?
By MIT Technology Review Following NSA surveillance revelations, talks advance on making the privacy-protecting tool Tor an Internet standard. The Internet’s main engineers have asked the architects of Tor—networking software designed to make Web browsing private—to consider turning the technology … Continue reading
The Governments Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained
By Dana Liebelson Update: The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the court just granted the government more time to decide whether to release the kill switch plan. It now has until January 13. This month, the United States District … Continue reading
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