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There will soon be something new to watch on the living room TV: your relatives and friends in different parts of the world.
On Tuesday, Panasonic and LG Electronics, two of the top television makers, are to announce that they are integrating the free online calling service Skype into their Internet-connected high-definition televisions.

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160by2 allows YOU to send Free SMS up to 80 characters long. Advertisers are allowed to append a contextual advertisement to your SMS, making up the rest of the 80 characters.
160by2 = 80 for YOU + 80 for Advertisers

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The brochure, entitled Fostering Information and Communication for Development, is a short introduction to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its follow-up. It presents different aspects and outcomes of WSIS.

The first part sets out the WSIS framework tracing the main events. It also describes the role that UNESCO plays in the follow-up to translate the WSIS vision into action. The second part reports about the Geneva Plan of Action and UNESCO’s contribution to its implementation. The impact of WSIS is also illustrated with several case stories.

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This report highlights the latest ICT developments in the region and includes key statistical information for every country. It features a regional analysis of the ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket, two ICT benchmarking tools that were launched in March 2009. The report points to key policy issues in the region and provides concrete recommendations for policy makers.

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Every year the ReadWriteWeb team tries its hand at predicting the future. Looking back at our 2009 predictions, we got some wrong (I predicted that Facebook would sign up to OpenSocial) but others turned out to be on the money. I correctly guessed that the usual suspects would remain unacquired in '09 - Digg, Twitter, Technorati - but that FriendFeed would get bought. OK, so I guessed that Google would be the buyer. But close enough!

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Offline Gmail is graduating from Labs and becoming a regular part of Gmail. If you're already using it, then you're all set. While you'll no longer see it on the Labs tab, you can tweak your settings and turn it on and off from the Offline tab under Settings. If you'd like to get started with Offline Gmail on your computer now, here's how:\n 1. Click the "Settings" link in the top-right corner of Gmail.\n 2. Click the "Offline" tab.\n 3. Select "Enable Offline Mail for this computer."\n 4. Click "Save Changes" and follow the directions from there.

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Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs.
Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs.
Disclaimer on the site: An important note: There are many valid reasons to want to remove a password from a PDF (Ask your favorite lawyer about copyright and fair use, or Google it), but there are also many bad and illegal reasons. YOU MAY NOT USE THIS SERVICE FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES. You also should not use this service for immoral puposes (it's not always the same).

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The purpose of the paper is to illustrate the status of ICT initiatives and implementations which aim to bridge the digital divide. More precisely, the paper aims to help assess how many people, what kind of groups of people and which regions have been left out from accessing ICT, and to identify the main problems of further expanding ICT access which is the foundation of an inclusive information society. Without such foundation, meaningful utilization of ICT for development would not be feasible.

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9 page preview of the next Horizon Report.

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In 2003, APC launched its first ICT policy handbook "for beginners" to critical acclaim. ICT policy was a relatively new area and very few really understood what was actually involved. The APC handbook was the first comprehensive guide for non-technicians. Now APC has published an entirely rewritten second edition free and online for anyone to download.

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Still not sure why Google is building its own operating system? It created this animated video to try to explain why the Web needs a new OS, and why that OS should be Chrome.

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The Global Information Society Watch report focuses on information and communications technologies and how they are being implemented in different countries across the world. The purpose of the report is to stimulate a collaborate approach to policy advocacy, and to create a common platform where disparate experiences can be shared. Ultimately, GISWatch hopes to impact on policy development processes in countries, regions, and at a global level.\nThe report includes several thematic reports covering areas such as intellectual property rights, knowledge rights, open standards and access to educational materials and libraries, as well as an institutional overview and a reflection on indicators that track access to information and knowledge. There is also an innovate section on visual mapping of global rights and political crises.\n48 country reports analyse the status of access to online information and knowledge in countries as diverse as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Switzerland and Kazakhstan, while regional overviews (Africa, South Asia, European Union, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America) offer a bird's eye perspective on regional trends.

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An online photo editor tool if used professionally can bring a lot of difference to the image. A colossal presence of photo editors available online for free really makes it difficult for user to choose the best one. To help our readers in making the best choice for themselves BestDeignTuts.com has made a collection of 55 online photo editors. Majority of these photo editors are free to use and can be jumped right without any registration.

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The Information Economy Report 2009: Trends and Outlook in Turbulent Times is the fourth in a series published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The report is one of the few publications to monitor global trends in information and communication technologies (ICTs) as they affect developing countries. It serves as a valuable reference for policymakers in those nations. It gives special attention to the impact of the global financial crisis on ICTs.

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Of all the empty promises about the future made to me by prognosticators, the one that bothers me most is the one I think about every morning as I put on my suit, drive to the nearest train station, stand shoulder to shoulder with thousands of other people for 40 minutes, and walk several blocks until I reach my office. It's the promise of technological innovation and sophistication that would allow me to work from anywhere, any time.

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Today, we've added new links to "Quick View" PDFs in your browser with the formatting intact. The new links are based on the same technology that's available in Google Docs and Gmail, as well as to webmasters through the Google Docs viewer. We've been rolling this technology out to the search results page since July, and as of today we've added "Quick View" links to more than 50% of the PDFs in our index. The new links appear at the end of the second line of the result, right underneath the title.

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The ICT4D 2.0 Manifesto by Richard Heeks argues we are moving to a new phase in use of ICTs for development, and outlines the new technological priorities, new implementation and innovation models, and new worldviews that are emerging.\nThe paper has an educators' guide to facilitate its use in training.\nIt is part of the online Development Informatics series from the University of Manchester's Centre for Development Informatics.

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Coping with the troubling tradeoff between depth of what we know and how fast we retrieve it may require something like peripheral intellectual vision.

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Telepresence refers to the application of complex video technologies to give geographically separated participants a sense of being together in the same location. These systems use high-definition cameras feeding to life-size, HD displays with high-fidelity acoustics that, in many cases, localize sound to image, simulating the effect of each voice coming from the video display for each participant. In sophisticated telepresence rooms, the furniture and displays are arranged in ways that further enhance the simulation—participants sit at a conference table and see high-resolution video of participants in remote locations at similar tables, allowing participants to imagine sharing a single table. Costs can be an obstacle, but as these systems become more affordable, they have the potential to open new kinds of shared instruction and provide a legitimate alternative to in-person meetings.

The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use these briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.

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The need to bridge the digital divide is no longer a point of discussion and therefore focus has shifted to the design and implementation of programs that have the potential to close the information and knowledge gap between the developing and developed nations. Unfortunately, the majority of these programs are small and mimic what has been successful in the developed world. It has become increasingly clear that these successes do not necessarily translate well in the context of developing nations. This paper develops the hypothesis that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects in developing countries will become successful only when they are adapted to local conditions. The general concept of Appropriate Technology (AT) will be explored for the field of ICT. AT has already been embraced by fields like architecture, building technology and agriculture, but has not yet been rooted in ICT.
The paper proposes a preliminary theory of Appropriate ICT along the lines of existing theories in AT and System development. The theory identifies Appropriate Technology principles at three levels: hardware, software and ICT change management. By means of real life mini cases in the ICT for Development context in Africa, the guiding principles for Appropriate ICT are illustrated. The paper will conclude with an agenda for further research in the three identified levels. The research agenda targets academia, governments, NGO's and industry.

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