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Pocket PCs Help UN Survey Food Needs in Zimbabwe Faster and With Greater Accuracy

The World Food Programme WFP is fighting the worst food crisis in Southern Africa since 1992, when a devastating drought hit the region. In Zimbabwe, WFP's survey team, including many locally-recruited staff, used a Pocket PC-based solution to collect and store their assessment data. The Personal Digital Assistants PDAs collected...

Tags: Food, PC, Microsoft Corp., Zimbabwe, World Food Programme, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Food & Beverage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Manufacturing, Software

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Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)

Let the whining by the Neo-Cons begin. nt:-(RE: Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)bingoKeep your damn politics out of itCan't we just discuss technology issues without injecting our political views? There are valid arguments on both sides; let's focus...

Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, net neutrality rule, broadband investment, broadband, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass production

OLPC's XO Laptop hits mass productionAre there any orders?Or are they hoping someone buys them?Rugged, low power data loggerThis thing would make an ideal data logger for one of the projects that I'm working on. I'm going to try to convince my boss to purchase one.RE: OLPC's XO Laptop...

Tags: Uruguay, XO-laptop, One Laptop Per Child project, Milly, No_Ax

Discussion threads 2007-11-06