Good people, Timesonline recently reported that Japan’s high-tech rubbish dumps – the vast “urban mines” of landfill outside every big city – have grown so huge that the country now ranks among the biggest natural resource nations in the world. This report states that:
Tens of millions of defunct mobile phones, discarded televisions, PCs and MP3 [...]

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Two Malawian colleagues recently told me that the guidelines for configuring softphones for ComFi PC-to-phone service were not user friendly and I agree with them 100%. The folks at ComFi are giving us good rates and even good discounts for the their services but their guidelines for softphone configuration are really bad. They must do [...]

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I have been ardent fan of Fedora for the past four years. I got introduced to the world of Fedora while I was doing my MSc research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. For sometime, I had been working on theoretical aspects of a Fuzzy Logic based Active Queue Management scheme for IP Networks [...]

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Many Universities in the developing world do not offer courses in Robotics.They usually have a futuristic view on this subject. For instance, last year after I blogged about the robotic age and its ethical problems, I received some great feedback from Prof Emanuele Micheli who works  at the School of Robotics in Italy. He was [...]

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Did you know that PC-to-phone call rates to Cuba are probably the most expensive in the world? I got to know this through a Cuban friend who told me that Skype rates to Cuba are higher than 1USD per minute. I was so shocked and as a result, I did a little bit of research [...]

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