September 2014

Hawks owner Bruce Levenson to sell team after revealing he wrote racist email

My thoughts would more or less analyze the contents of the email and with the following two excerpts: ( ” .. my theory is that southern Whites simply were not comfortable being in a bar or arena were they are the minority” and “I want the music to be familiar with a 40 year old […]

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Dr. Dennie M. Beach – Profile

CEO & President, Go Africa Network Inc. (Non-profit) and ASG Global Trade Inc. Dr. Dennie M. Beach has with over 22 years of experience in data warehousing, Cloud computing, Storage, Big Data, BI and analytics with Dell, IBM and Microsoft. Previously, Dr. Beach spent 2 ½ years with the Teradata Corporation as an Account executive

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Jumia responds to Africa’s growing mobile market

The mobile internet sector in Africa is developing rapidly, with smartphones becoming much more affordable and growing in popularity. Jumia has taken advantage of this with a mobile app that allows an increasing number of Africans to access the e-commerce platform wherever they are.

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BioMetrics: Facial-recognition systems are getting better

Clocking people’s clocks With some pride, the FBI trumpeted the news last month that thanks to the agency’s facial-recognition system Neil Stammer, wanted for sexual assault and kidnapping, had been apprehended in Nepal after being on the run for 14 years. The truth was slightly more prosaic. A State Department official had used the FBI’s

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You need to know about NFC and mobile payments. Here’s why.

Even if you’ve never owned an NFC-equipped phone or tablet (like the Samsung Galaxy S5 or a Nokia Lumia), you’ve probably used NFC.  The technology, which lets two local devices share small bits of data, is embedded in things like commuter cards, print advertisements, and smart cards. Now that the technology is placed in more Android and

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Mobile Phones: Africa is the fastest growing market in the world

late 2012, the World Association of Telecom operators said that sub-Saharan Africa has become since 2000, the most growing market in mobile telephony. 40% growth each year. With these data, it is expected one billion mobile subscribers on the continent in 2015, attracted by the strong demand for connectivity and innovative services like mobile money

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Are Cellular Phones Tricorders?  

This article  will profile the logical progression of mobile technologies such as the cellular phone toward ubiquitous, multipurpose devices that can perform significant functions similar to the fictional tricorder featured in Star Trek© series and films. Within the context, the domain of telemedicine and related applications for remote data access and analysis implies ramifications that

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Africian Development Bank (ADB): Back In Ivory Coast

It is decided, even jurors: the African Development Bank (AfDB) finally returned to Abidjan after spending 11 years in a temporary headquarters in Tunis. Its president, Donald Kaberuka made ​​the announcement Tuesday at a press conference. “The security conditions are sufficient to settle permanently “ , he has reassured before announcing “the holding of first board Sept.

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African tech start-ups dream of Silicon Savannah

Young techies hunched over laptops in small offices across Africa want to create their own versions of California’s Silicon Valley and some are beginning to attract investors prepared to take a risk in the hope of high returns. One such start-up, a South African social photography app called Over, last month beat 19 others from

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Many in West Africa May Be Immune to Ebola Virus

Although few medical experts realize it, part of the population in West Africa is immune to the Ebola virus, according to virologists who specialize in the disease. Assuming they are correct, and if those people can be identified, they could be a great help in fighting the outbreak. Immune persons could safely tend the sick

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