Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A panicky response in the West may worsen conditions in west Africa Oct 11th 2014 | From the print edition THE death toll from Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three most affected countries in west Africa, now stands at around 3,900. Among cases diagnosed outside Africa, the […]
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Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A long-touted health-care revolution may at last be about to arrive Oct 11th 2014 | ROME | From the print edition THE idea of telemedicine—health care provided using telecommunications equipment—has a lengthy history. Radio News, an American magazine, devoted its cover to a patient at home consulting a doctor in
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Lytro has opened up its light-field technology platform for companies to develop custom cameras. NASA and the Department of Defense are among the first to jump on board. Lytro could soon be coming to a space mission near you. The company behind the light-field camera of the same name has
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Mozilla has revealed that the Firefox OS will soon expand to Africa. The Firefox OS ecosystem has gained support from three new key partners in the region: Airtel, MTN South Africa and Tigo, operated by Millicom, are the first carriers working with Mozilla to soon bring first Firefox OS smartphones
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Today, companies have apps and websites. Tomorrow, they’ll let their customers link electronically in a new way with if-this-then-that actions, IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets predicts. DUBLIN — If IFTTT Chief Executive Linden Tibbets gets his way, your house’s lights will blink off and on when the FedEx delivery truck arrives
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A USERNAME and password combination has long been the standard security mechanism for online accounts. But that method just isn’t cutting it anymore. Huge data breaches, in which hackers gain access to personal information, have risen sharply in the last few years. And consumers have named identity theft their No.
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Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been struggling since March to stop what has become the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. The disease is causing widespread fear and disruption in West Africa, and shows no signs of being brought under control.
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Dr. Rick Sacra, a missionary who contracted Ebola in Liberia this August, was first treated there. Each nurse on the ward cared for 15 or 20 patients, and none could work for more than an hour at a time because the protective gear was so suffocatingly hot. They never drew
Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Montserrado County in Liberia, which includes the capital, Monrovia, recorded over 300 new cases in the week ended Oct 21. One of the country’s challenges has been the lack of laboratories to test for Ebola. The United States Navy opened a new mobile laboratory in Monrovia earlier this month. Note:
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Arriving some months after its initial introduction, Google Fit aims to track a variety of Android users activities. First announced at Google I/O 2014, Google Fit is finally available for Android users everywhere. Offered as an Android app, the client tracks a host of user activities, including walking, running, and
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