GAN logo gold

January 2015

New York City’s ID Card Program Draws a Large Response

General news, New York City Metro Area News, U.S News /

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The applicants clustered on Kissena Boulevard, clutching documents from around the world, trading familiar stories with strangers in a driving rain outside the Queens Library in Flushing. There were the police encounters, the school visits, the fraught hospital trips — all negotiated without the bureaucratic lubricant of local identification. “We […]

New York City’s ID Card Program Draws a Large Response Read More »

Language Translation Tech Starts to Deliver on Its Promise

Technology News /

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The tech industry is doing its best to topple the Tower of Babel. Last month, Skype, Microsoft’s video calling service, initiated simultaneous translation between English and Spanish speakers. Not to be outdone, Google will soon announce updates to its translation app for phones. Google Translate now offers written translation of

Language Translation Tech Starts to Deliver on Its Promise Read More »

New York City Formally Starts Its Municipal ID Card Program: with link to schedule an appoiment

General news, New York City Metro Area News, U.S News /

For generations, the label has been at once exclusive and widely misapplied, available to millions in earnest, but vulnerable to line-blurring by suburban peers who claimed New York City residency without an address to match. Could a New Yorker be identified by a harried gait? A brash retort? The knowledge that L trains are to

New York City Formally Starts Its Municipal ID Card Program: with link to schedule an appoiment Read More »

Africa’s Richest #1 Aliko Dangote

Economic news, West Africa economic news /

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Heralded by some as the face of the new Nigeria, Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, is looking beyond cement, sugar and flour — the three commodities that built his fortune — to the oil business. In April 2014 he announced $9 billion in financing from a consortium of local and

Africa’s Richest #1 Aliko Dangote Read More »

Nigerian firm to build Equatorial Guinea’s giant oil storage hub

Economic news, West Africa economic news /

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Nigerian energy firm Taleveras Group said on Monday it had signed a deal with the government of Equatorial Guinea to build a giant oil storage hub in the central African country. The Bioko Island facility will have a total capacity of 1.34 million tonnes of storage for crude oil and

Nigerian firm to build Equatorial Guinea’s giant oil storage hub Read More »

Why ZTE and Alcatel are smartphone makers to watch out for

Technology News /

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork LAS VEGAS — ZTE and Alcatel OneTouch have a lot in common. Both companies will be coming on strong in the US as they fight to capture your attention. They won’t find it easy going. They both focus on selling affordable smartphones. They concentrate on prepaid customers. They’re both growing

Why ZTE and Alcatel are smartphone makers to watch out for Read More »

From a Pile of Dirt, Hope for a Powerful New Antibiotic

General news, Health news /

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork An unusual method for producing antibiotics may help solve an urgent global problem: the rise in infections that resist treatment with commonly used drugs, and the lack of new antibiotics to replace ones that no longer work. The method, which extracts drugs from bacteria that live in dirt, has yielded a

From a Pile of Dirt, Hope for a Powerful New Antibiotic Read More »

Sling TV to Launch Live, Over-the-Top Service for $20 Per Month; Watch on TVs, Tablets, Computers, Smartphones, Game Consoles

General news, Technology News /

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Sling TV to deliver the best of live TV including ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, Food Network, HGTV, Cartoon Network and Disney Channel Service to feature Video-On-Demand programming and the best of online video with long- and short-form content from Maker Studios Core package priced at $20 per month; no commitment,

Sling TV to Launch Live, Over-the-Top Service for $20 Per Month; Watch on TVs, Tablets, Computers, Smartphones, Game Consoles Read More »

© 2023 All Rights Reserved

Scroll to Top
Open chat