Non Profit Tech Company Ushadhidi Wins Knight News Challenge
The Knight Foundation, a non-profit entity that is one of the biggest funders of media-related projects in the United States announced the winners of its annual $4.7-million News Challenge, one of them a being an African American led team from non profit tech company Ushahidi. Ushahidi, which means testimony in Swahili, specializes in developing free and open source [...]
Read MoreLost in the Cloud: A Eulogy for My Lost Data
I’m not going to knock cloud computing completely because it’s allowing for collaborative efforts that were previously unheard of. And with Google beefing up its cloud computing to take on Microsoft, it’s obvious that its not going anywhere anytime soon. At this stage in the game, especially for mobile phone service providers, it might be a good idea to create an app that will do all the data restoration, similar to how iPhone users can back up their info on iTunes. Until then, if I were you, I’d be backing up all my precious contacts the old-fashioned way with a pad and a pen.
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