This past Tuesday, the Ghana Medical Association and Africa Aid , a socially entrepreneurial organization based in San Francisco, delivered the first-ever countrywide “directory of doctors” to participating clinics and hospitals across the country.
This past Tuesday, the Ghana Medical Association and Africa Aid, a socially entrepreneurial organization based in San Francisco, delivered the first-ever countrywide “directory of doctors” to participating clinics and hospitals across the country. The Huffington Post reports.
Each doctor in the country will be in possession of a printed directory, which lists over 2,200 physicians by surname and specialty. Participating physicians are also allowed to make free calls and send free text messages to other doctors in the directory, eliminating the cost barrier to this communication strategy in years past.
The directory sits at the centerpiece of Africa Aid’s MDNet Program, the free doctor-to-doctor communication network aiming to increase physicians’ access to medical knowledge, professional advice, patient referrals and emergency response instructions.
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Gearing up for the November elections, president Barack Obama is traveling the country to make the case to voters.
Gearing up for the November elections, president Barack Obama is traveling the country to make the case to voters. On October 22nd, he’ll be meeting three supporters backstage at a rally in Las Vegas.
If you want be one of them, you can enter a contest by text message. Text the keyword “BACKSTAGE” to 62262 by 11:59 p.m. on October 15th, 2010.
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Users of Facebook who are nervous about using their real password on public computers can now get a one-time password sent to their mobile phones. eBrand reports. In an attempt to ward off keyloggers, Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a new security feature that will provide users with a temporary password for use on public computers
Users of Facebook who are nervous about using their real password on public computers can now get a one-time password sent to their mobile phones.
eBrand reports.
In an attempt to ward off keyloggers, Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a new security feature that will provide users with a temporary password for use on public computers.
Those signing into Facebook from a public place like a hotel or café can just text “otp” to 32665 from your mobile phone, and Facebook will then answer back with a password that can be used only once and expires in 20 minutes, blogged Jake Brill, product manager for Facebook’s integrity team. “In order to access this feature, users will need to add a mobile phone number in their account. We are rolling this out gradually, and it should be available to everyone in the coming weeks.”
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TechCrunch has dug up a patent filed by Apple, which prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages.
TechCrunch has dug up
a patent filed by Apple, which prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages.
The patent’s official title? “Text-based communication control for personal communication device” is meant to solve the problem that “there is currently “No way to monitor and control text communications to make them user appropriate. For example, users such as children may send or receive messages (intentionally or not) with parentally objectionable language.”
In one embodiment, the control application includes a parental control application.
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Mobile users spend 1.4 times as many hours using social networking sites than reading and responding to e-mail, according to a recent study by research company TNS. Mashable reports. On average, users spend 3.1 hours per week on social networks, versus 2.2 hours on e-mail.
Mobile users spend 1.4 times as many hours using social networking sites than reading and responding to e-mail, according to a recent study by research company TNS.
Mashable reports.
On average, users spend 3.1 hours per week on social networks, versus 2.2 hours on e-mail.
In most mature markets — such as the U.S. — the trend is reversed on PCs; consumers spend more time on e-mail (5.1 hours per week) than social networking (3.8 hours).
The study tracked the online activities and behaviors of nearly 50,000 subjects between 16 and 60 years of age in 46 countries.
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Egypt’s National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has imposed new restrictions aimed at tightening control over the SMS messaging services provided by mobile phone companies and media institutions in an apparent effort to preempt possible anti-regime activism in the run-up to next month’s parliamentary elections. Almasryalyoum reports. On Monday, a number of private media institutions–including Al-Masry Al-Youm–were notified by SMS news providers that they must now obtain approval from the Ministry of Information and the Supreme Press Council before sending news alerts out to subscribers.
Egypt’s
National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has imposed new restrictions aimed at tightening control over the SMS messaging services provided by mobile phone companies and media institutions in an apparent effort to preempt possible anti-regime activism in the run-up to next month’s parliamentary elections.
Almasryalyoum reports.
On Monday, a number of private media institutions–including Al-Masry Al-Youm–were notified by SMS news providers that they must now obtain approval from the Ministry of Information and the Supreme Press Council before sending news alerts out to subscribers.
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Apple filed a trademark application back in December 2009 for the company’s now ubiquitous catchphrase. [via stuff ]
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Gray Collins is spending 60 hours on Twitter to raise money for the UK National Autistic Society . His “
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Microsoft officially unveiled its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 , at a press event yesterday in New York City. CEO Steve Ballmer described the new line of Windows Phones as “different” and more modern, in both design and principles
Microsoft officially unveiled its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, at a press event yesterday in New York City. CEO Steve Ballmer described the new line of Windows Phones as “different” and more modern, in both design and principles. With Windows Phone 7, the focus is on how “real people want to use their phones,” he said.
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