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Globalization's discontents

I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared to Zimbabwe, it is positively affluent. People are poor, but the roads are filled with cars, the stores are filled...

Tags: Immigrant, Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Globalization, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-22

3 mln phone users in Ghana

The number of telephone users in Ghana reached 3 mln at the end of 2005, up from just 218,000 in 2000, country's Minister for Communications told TeleGeography.

Tags: Ghana

Blog posts 2006-03-01

Additional Resources

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'

Dear Mr Fuller you have to understand a few thing WEll even if i find your post always refreshing and deeply educating you must understand this until there hurrican lvl 6and 7 or twister force 6 or 7 or all coastal area will be under...

Tags: Ban Ki-moon

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Scitable brings peer-reviewed credibility to the Wikipedia age

Regular readers will know that I'm actually a pretty big fan of Wikipedia. I think it has as much, if not more of a place in student research than actual encyclopedias did for us Gen-Xers when we were younger: it's a starting point and a great source of background...

Tags: Student, Scientist, Wikipedia, Scitable, Nature Education, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-03

Election coverage sets Web record; Facebook releases data

updated: Facebook releases Election Night traffic data. see below Right around the time that Barack Obama was being declared the winner of Tuesday's historic election, an Internet usage record was being broken. At the peak, there were more than 8.5 million visitors per minute visiting news sites...

Tags: Web, Facebook, Election Day, Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computers

Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computersNot sure about the whole pledge idea.I in no way have any clue about the actual state of ethics in the recycling business; but if I pledge to not export to developing countries, and instead export to, say, a company in Germany, and then...

Tags: Business ethics, recycling, Greenpeace, job, computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Followup with Greenpeace - "recycling" your computers

Yesterday I posted an article on the environmental and human rights disaster that computer "recycling" is creating in countries like Ghana and Nigeria. Today, I contacted Greenpeace's Casey Harrell from their Toxics Division to follow up and determine if we can do anything within Ed Tech to dispose of...

Tags: Greenpeace, Recycling, Product, E-waste, Computer, Individual Producer Responsibility, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Do you know where your computers are being recycled?

I have almost 200 really old iMacs that are supposed to be recycled by Apple before school opens in September. I have an abandoned school building closed last year due to budget cuts with another 100 or so badly battered PCs that are in really sad shape, too. ...

Tags: boy, e-waste, nigeria, computer, productivity, christopher dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-10

Currency (UIQ3) (Mobile)

FEATURES - 137 currencies; - conversion between any given currency; - retrieving currency rates using an Internet connection.STARTUP AND SETTING RATES1. Start the application 2. In Options/Settings, select your Base currency, and your Internet access point you should do it only once 3. Add or remove currencies to the list...

Tags: Mobile, Currency, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2008-06-23

Botnets committing click fraud observed

What's the current state of click fraud, and what tools and tactics do the people behind click fraud campaigns have in their arsenal? A recently analyzed affiliate based network for using botnets to commit click fraud provides a timely assessment of the situation, and provides evidential facts on the internal...

Tags: Click Fraud, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-28

The newspaper's last stand

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...

Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Women's attractiveness judged by software

Women's attractiveness judged by softwareLOL"Finally, why did the researchers limit themselves to women? Haaretz says men's faces are more difficult to rank."HAHA Sure. He just wanted to deal with women.. he is a college student.Now, as for the "A.I" link.. this might be borderline.. the true goal of A.I...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Haaretz, women, attractiveness, software, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Paradise for tech tinkerers

Paradise for tech tinkerersThat would be sweet..Although the daily price is a little high to me. I think something around $10-15 for a day would be perfect. However, I guess $30 isn't too bad considering what it costs to rent tools from the hardware store.I have a couple...

Tags: tech tinkerer, Paradise

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

The world's biodiesel potential

Two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) have ranked 226 countries according to their potential to make large volumes of biodiesel at low cost. Their evaluation of the world's potential to produce biodiesel shows that Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Uruguay and Ghana are the developing nations most likely to attract...

Tags: Researcher, Biodiesel, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Ghana Currency Convertor and Calculator 1 (Windows)

Software for conversion and calculation of the new Ghana Cedi Cedi and Pesewa. You can use the mouse entirely or use the keyboard. Convert from old Ghana cedis to new Ghana Cedis and Pesewas. Convert also from new Ghana Cedis and Pesewas to old Ghana cedis. It has calculator on...

Tags: Calculation, DiSEC, Keyboards, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-07-18

What will happen in IT in 2007?

What will happen in IT in 2007?With all predictionsIt is important to draw the line between what one might want to happen and what one believes will happen.I think it is often the case that if you talk about what you believe will happen people often assume that this is...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Strategy, Linux, Sun Solaris, Murph, client-server, information technology

Discussion threads 2006-12-28

Africa Elevation Maps: Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Cameroon, ... 2.0 (Mobile)

Africa Elevation Maps for PrettyMapThis free pack contains high resolution elevation map for Africa, divided into 4 smaller pieces. Each tile covers the projected area of 40x50, and contains almost 29 million of samples one sample per square kilometer. Areas covered by 4 maps in this packTerritories of 84 countries...

Tags: Mobile, Maciej Komosinski, Elevation Map, PrettyMap, GIS, Software

Software downloads 2006-11-26

Study questions popularity of iPod video

Study questions popularity of iPod videoiPod StudyI don't believe that 400 users represents an appropriate sample size of the total iPod user community. The best you can say that the statistics sited apply to these 400. We don't know anything about the 400, where do they live, ages,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital music, Digital media, video, Apple iPod, music

Discussion threads 2006-11-20

New, red iPod supports AIDS charity

New, red iPod supports AIDS charityAWESOMEIncredible looking iPod and wonderful cause!http://one.revver.com/watch/76500/format/flv/affiliate/23672New, red iPod supports AIDS charityGood for Apple. Contributions like this to helping out the world are pretty scarce so whenever someone does decide to dedicate to a good cause its worth giving them kudos for.Way to go AppleNot...

Tags: ipod, Apple iPod, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-13