Researchers at IBM have redrawn the bus routes of Ivory Coast’s largest city using mobile phone data. The research was completed as part of the Data for Development competition run by Orange which released 2.5 billion call records from five million mobile phone users in ... Read More »
Veritas, a local organisation that provides information on the work of the Parliament of Zimbabwe and the Laws of Zimbabwe, has come up with Android and Blackberry apps of the draft constitution. The app was developed by a Nigerian company called Pledge 51 with the support of ... Read More »
Austrian police have seized servers that were part of a global anonymous browsing system, after images showing child sex abuse were found passing through them. Many people use the Tor network to conceal their browsing activity. Police raided the home of William Weber, who ran ... Read More »
Nokia has asked courts in the US, UK and Canada to block sales of rival Blackberry smartphones. It follows a patent dispute between the Finnish company and Blackberry’s parent, Research In Motion (RIM). Nokia says an earlier ruling means RIM is not allowed to produce ... Read More »
Facebook now has more than one billion people using it every month, the company has said.The passing of the milestone was announced by founder Mark Zuckerberg on US television on Thursday. The company said that those billion users were to date responsible for 1.13 trillion ... Read More »
About 1.5 million Kenyans have been affected by the switch-off launched this week by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) to clamp down on counterfeit handsets, defined as “copies of popular brands and models made from sub-standard materials” that have not been licensed by the ... Read More »
You hear it on stages, like when Marc Benioff, chief executive and co-founder of Salesforce, urged 90,000 attendees at the firm’s Dreamforce conference to fill in the visionary hole that Steve Jobs left. You hear it at cocktail parties. At one by Morgenthaler Ventures, for ... Read More »
According to Twitter, more tweets were sent about the first US presidential debate between Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama than any other political event in the United States.The first presidential debate was the most tweeted US political event in history. Does it ... Read More »
Google has agreed to pay the largest fine ever imposed on a single company by the US Federal Trade Commission. The firm agreed to pay $22.5m (£14.4m) after monitoring web surfers using Apple’s Safari browser who had a “do not track” privacy setting selected. Google ... Read More »
Facebook has said it believes there are now more than 83 million illegitimate accounts on the social network. In company profilings published this week, it said 8.7% of its 955 million active accounts broke its rules. Duplicate profiles – belonging to already registered users – ... Read More »
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