Ghana Pledges No New Mobile Operators and Better Mobile Service
The Ghanaian government recently pledged to license no new mobile operators. With six operators in Ghana, the market is already crowded. The government says the decision is to preserve the integrity of the market, and encourages all operators not already doing so, to begin printed scratch-off airtime cards in Ghana.
Read MoreChicago’s Digital Youth Network Promotes Social Media Literacy
The Urban Education Institute of The University of Chicago supports an initiative called the Digital Youth Network (DYN) or iremix.org, a “hybrid digital literacy program that creates opportunities for youth to engage in learning environments that span both school and out-of-school context.” DYN provides full-time services to students participating in UEI/University of Chicago charter schools. Students from other schools participate in the four-year-old program after school and during summer sessions. Recently, the program moved into a 5,000 square foot space in Chicago’s Harold Washington Library.
Read MoreOneRiot Snatches Up $7 Million
OneRiot has just closed their Series C round of $7 million led by Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital. You may recall us mentioning this real-time search engine in a recent post about the new Digsby.
Read MoreQuincy Jones Talks about Future of Music at 2009 SxSW
Quincy Jones is the cat who performed with some of the greatest names in music, produced some of the hottest music for some of the hottest musicians most recently and notably Michael Jackson. He is the founder of Vibe magazine who found the perfect formula of bringing together multiple genres of music with a focus on the vibe and less on the difference. Do you think I’m a fan? I am.
Read MoreAward-Winning DJ Garth Trinidad to Speak at LA Digital Music Forum
The DJ and radio host (KCRW) credited with jump starting the careers of Van Hunt, Dwele, Jill Scott, Kelis and Gnarls Barkley and creating the genre “urban alternative,” Garth Trinidad will be speaking at Digital Media Wire’s Digital Music Forum West in Los Angeles, October 8-9, at the historic Hotel Roosevelt.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-28-09
Looks like Microsoft made a major error in judgement when they removed the head of a black man on a Polish marketing site and replaced it with a white guy’s. Not only that, but they didn’t even bother to Photoshop the hands to match. At first, I thought this was really racist of them, but it looks like there really aren’t that many black people in that region and they were just trying to match the marketing with the local demographic. Still, how sloppy and lazy of them to simply Photoshop the image. Now, TechCrunch has an excuse to kick off a meme.
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