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In the words of African telecommunications expert Steve Song, Village Telco is “an easy-to-use, scalable, standards-based, wireless, local, do-it-yourself, telephone company toolkit”. He’s just…
Dead Island: Great trailer, but what’s it all about?
The corner of the internet that deals with videogames nearly tore itself in half with excitement for the trailer of a new Zombie apocalypse-themed…
It’s elementary, dear Watson
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Cuban singer wants free internet for the developing world
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