Developing Nations Archive

  • Researchers Transform iPhone into High-quality Medical Imaging Device

    Posted on October 3, 2011 | No Comments
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  • IBM researching ways to help the aged, illiterate

    IBM researching ways to help the aged, illiterate

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    IBM's. Open Collaborative Research is working on ways to get mobile Internet to the aged and illiterate all over the world. The initial research is happening in Japan and India and will be used to plan future endeavors including open source platforms for information sharing. Japan was chosen because of its high number of older folks and India chosen because, despite recent impressive advances, many citizens are still illiterate.

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  • Developing countries, in race out of poverty, will produce more E-Waste

    Developing countries, in race out of poverty, will produce more E-Waste

    Posted on February 22, 2010 | No Comments
    UN Under-Secretary-General Achim Steiner gave a talk at an environment protection conference in Bali describing a growing problem among developing nations: e-waste. While places like China and India already have their own problems with informal e-waste recycling, the UN expects to see the same intractable problems surface in Africa and Latin America while levels of [...]

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  • TenYears: The Biggest Product Flops of the Decade

    TenYears: The Biggest Product Flops of the Decade

    Posted on December 31, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s almost January 1st, 2010 and we’ve been mulling over our favorites of 2009 – and the previous decade. Here we present another installment of our “TenYears” list. We already did the biggest losers in the tech industry but why not talk about the biggest product flops? Here are a few of the biggest failures of [...]

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  • Why Nokia and Sony Ericsson are failing

    Why Nokia and Sony Ericsson are failing

    Posted on July 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Fosfor posted an incredible look at what has befallen phone manufacturers and why they're all faltering. Mikael heeded over to Nokia and Sony Ericsson's sites and tried to list all of the models available. Nokia had 44 and S-E had 70. He then points out that there are three iPhones at best and in reality there are only two. It costs money to manufacture and sell things. While many of the phones on Nokia's site may be out of production, they still show them to users as if they were available. This is wrong-headed and ridiculous. The manufacturers will complain that carriers make them offer so many phones. Carrier A wants a cheap phone to sell to grandmas in Latvia while Carrier B wants a fancy phone to sell to the rich in South Africa. Cry me a river. Are we really that neophiliac that every country and every carrier has to have something a little different? Do we really have to bend our desires to what companies that essentially sell the transmission of bits over radio waves want?

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  • Sharp is increasing LCD panel production

    Sharp is increasing LCD panel production

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    I would say that it’s a good sign for the worldwide economy that Sharp is increasing its LCD panel production by tens of thousands of screens per month. Sharp is after all one of the largest provider of OEM LCD screens which get sold not only under the Sharp brand but many others too. The [...]

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