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Computing in Africa is Set to Get a Big Boost
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Computing in Africa is Set to Get a Big Boost

The image of Africa as a technological laggard is set to be seriously challenged as a number of developments converge in 2007. Alongside the booming African mobile phone market - itself now getting global...
created by Hopenow | 2 years ago | updated 17 wks ago
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Carbon Credits can Benefit African Farmers Thanks to New System
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Carbon Credits can Benefit African Farmers Thanks to New System

The global carbon credit trading schemes emanating from the Kyoto Protocol are now creating a multi-billion dollar market - the European carbon market was worth €14.6 billion in 2006 - and represents one of the...
created by Hopenow | 2 years ago | updated 17 wks ago
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Trade to Benefit the Poor Up in 2006 and to Grow in 2007

  The global fair trade market - in which goods and services are traded under the Fairtrade logo, guaranteeing a minimum fair price to producers experienced unprecedented growth in 2006. In the UK alone, 2006 sales totalled £290 million - a jump of 46 percent from...
created by Hopenow | 2 years ago | updated 17 wks ago
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Buy Less Stuff: Shortest Road to Going Green and Saving Some

People often talk about the third rail of politics or business, in Taboo Talk in Green Business: Buy Less Stuff (GreenBiz.com, December 22nd), Joel Makower offers one of his Strategies for the Green Economy (also the title of his book). He notes that "reducing or limiting...
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created by leconcierge | 50 wks ago
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Amy Winehouse ‘gives away £5,000 guitar’

"Amy Winehouse ‘gives away £5,000 guitar’ Singer has been sharing her stuff with pals Amy Winehouse is said to have started donating her valuables to friends. ??‘Amy says she just isn’t into “things” any more,’ says a source. ‘If she likes...
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created by EverythingFinance | 1 year ago
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10 Money Saving Tools For Small Business
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10 Money Saving Tools For Small Business

"How are you faring in these hard times? The recent economic down turn has hit many of us, especially with small businesses, rather hard. I don’t want to dwell on the tough stuff, because you know it. Instead I...
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created by stvalentine | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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What memories are made of

" As in, the actual physical creation in your brain. Researchers believe they have discovered evidence to suggest that when you experience something for the first time, like riding a bike or seeing...
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created by EddieStarr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff)
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Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff)

"U.S. business tycoon Richard Garriott b lasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket Sunday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War"
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created by stvalentine | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Aussie James McGrath targeted in Maldives poll

"THE first free election in the history of the Maldives might or might not topple Asia's longest-serving dictator, but it has already thrust Australian political strategist James McGrath back into the spotlight, a...
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created by BadrNaseem | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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The Crowdsourcerer: NowPublic
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The Crowdsourcerer: NowPublic

By JACK KAPICA Globe and Mail Update"he June issue of Wired magazine coined an interesting buzzword: "crowdsourcing." It's like outsourcing, but with a large number of unpaid or...
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created by the source | 3 years ago | updated 1 year ago
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Lou Dobbs: The War On The Middle Class

"Lou Dobbs: The War On The Middle Class By: Nicole Belle on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 AM - PST    Download | Play  Download | Play (h/t Heather) Lou Dobbs looks at how the...
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created by iraqivetwifeforchange | 1 year ago
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The alien Zlog and sidekick Asbo investigate ‘anti-consumerism’
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The alien Zlog and sidekick Asbo investigate ‘anti-consumerism’

Alien Zlog and his sidekick Asbo report back to their planet, Zorlich, on the terrible plight of robotic shoppers, known as people. From Eastenders to Knightsbridge, shopping for ‘stuff’ is out of fashion;...
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opinion by worldwrite | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Google Earth to license new satellite imagery
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Google Earth to license new satellite imagery

"Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of Delaware in one day. What...
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created by stvalentine | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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How To Get Better Results In Less Time At The Gym

"How To Get Better Results In Less Time At The Gym"
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created by Jen1979 | 1 year ago
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