By Jennifer Carpenter Science reporter, BBC News First identified in 1976, Ebola fever kills more than 90% of the people it infects. The researchers say that this is the first Ebola vaccine to remain viable long-term and can therefore be successfully stockpiled. The results are reported in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. …
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Tech Africa IPG Photonics Management Presents at Barclays Capital 2011 Global Technology … BMW has deployed a couple of laser via IPG's five lasers in South Africa. On the financial update, I'm going to pass it over to Tom Burgomaster, he is also a Vice President of Finance area of IPG. Good morning. As Tim …
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Tech Africa Why Deny Biotech to a Hungry Africa? Despite opponents' fears that the technology would poison people, spread superweeds and entrench corporate monopolies, it's now clear that the new crops have reduced not only hunger but pesticide use, carbon emissions, collateral damage to biodiversity …See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal …
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)
Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology, which provide access to the public switched telephone network. Post-paid and prepaid subscriptions are included. International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates. Catalog Sources World Development Indicators
Android Developer Challenge 2011 Finalists Share their & Experience Lessons Learnt
Posted by cpafrica on November 28, 2011, filed in: INNOVATION, MOBILE & MOBILE WEB, STARTUPS On Thursday, November 17th, Gbenga Sesan held a Google Plus hangout with finalists of the Android Developer Challenge (ADC), Sub Saharan Africa. The hangout was an opportunity for African web developers, entrepreneurs and Internet marketers to hear from the winners about their experience building winning applications, …
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Tech Africa Leading African Media Organization Announces $1 Million Fund for News Innovation The contest will target solutions to technology challenges facing African media, including ways to strengthen data-based investigative journalism, audience engagement, mobile news distribution, data visualization, revenue streams and workflow systems. …See all stories on this topic » Spectrum harmonization key to broadband …
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Tech Africa Africa: Audacious Aim to End Poverty – Conversation with Lloyd Pierson All of that science and technology is very, very important. You see ADF as playing a distinctive role. How has that been manifested in your years there – and, that's how many? Roughly four years. And at the United States African Development …
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Tech Africa South African Gold Mine Cooling Technology … – Coal Investing News Mining Weekly reported that China National Coal Group will use a special cooling technology developed at a gold mine for its coal mining operations.coalinvestingnews.com/…/south-african-gold-mine-cooling-tec… New bamboo charcoal technologies promise to jump-start Africa's … Bamboo, a plant not often associated with Africa, may …
Toshiba’s TouchPoints campaign launched in SA
http://www.itweb.co.za/ New branding campaign highlights Toshiba innovation. Press release issued by Tribeca Public Relations Johannesburg, 27 Oct 2011 Visit our press office Toshiba Computer Systems has launched its 360-degree TouchPoints marketing and advertising campaign to the South African market, at a time when the local company is mobilising local resources to deliver on …
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Ghanaian Tech Company mPedigree Honored by Wall Street Journal
If you think start-ups have a monopoly on innovation, think again. Some of the world’s biggest companies are among the winners of The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards this year. The winners include such big names as International Business Machines Corp., Novartis AG, Intel Corp., Abbott Laboratories, Xerox Corp. and runners-up Hewlett-Packard Co. …
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