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Political campaigns look to embrace mobile technologies

Political campaigns in the U.S. have just begun to embrace text messaging and other mobile technologies to communicate with potential voters, but mobile-phone owners...

Cisco iPrize goes to energy-efficient power grid

Cisco is planning to back technology that’s designed to reduce energy consumption within electrical grids. Two students and a systems engineer came up with...

Google India hosting developer event

Google is hosting its first Google Developer Day in Bangalore on Saturday, to share information with Indian developers about the company’s tools and about...

Mauritius moves on smart card ID

Mauritius, a small island off the east coast of Madagascar, is working hard on its smart card identification system. The Ministry of ICT is...

Symantec details grand product-integration scheme

Symantec Tuesday detailed a plan to further integrate its diverse products under a common management platform as well as support third-party products by means...

Gartner names 10 strategic technologies for 2009

Research firm Gartner has revealed its list of the 10 most important strategic technologies for 2009, which includes cloud computing and business intelligence.

Gartner: Mini-laptops sell faster during economic crisis

PC sales continued to grow during the third quarter, driven in part by interest in mini-notebooks, but the economic crisis is contributing to softer...

US court lifts ban on Qualcomm phone imports

A U.S. appeals court overturned a ruling that prevented Qualcomm’s handset-making customers from importing products to the U.S. because they allegedly contain patented technology...

Orange mobile ventures into the mass market

Telkom Kenya has kept its promise of catering to the mass market, launching low-cost handsets with Kiswahili language interface for 1,499 Kenyan shillings (US$20.72).

FTC, NZ authorities hit massive spam operation

Government agencies in the U.S. and New Zealand say they have sued the people behind one of the world’s largest spamming operations.

Uganda will meet digital migration deadline

Without giving a specific time frame, the Uganda Communications Commission has moved to reassure broadcasters that Uganda will meet the broadcasting digital-migration deadline.

Intel earnings up, future uncertain

Despite the ongoing financial crisis that is weighing down some tech companies, Intel earnings were up in the third quarter, narrowly beating analyst expectations.

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