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Google Trader Extends Service to Web Users

November 5, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Earlier this year Google introduced a suite of SMS services that brought things like search and electronic market places to the mobile devices so common ...
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Appfricast 17 – Google Earth Gets Around

October 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Rebecca Moore of Google talks Google Earth, Google Earth Outreach, Sketchup and Maps. Also a bit about TEDxKampala, the new Android Phone and AfricaGIS ...
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Google to Liberate User Data, Improve Data Portability

September 15, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Data portability on the web is a problem. Want to leave Facebook? No sweat, just delete your account. Want to leave Facebook and keep ...
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Google News Senegal has Arrived!

August 31, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Google continues to expand into Africa with Google News Senegal, or rather, Google Actualités pour le Sénégal. The service pulls news from major Senegalese newspapers, ...
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Who Will Keep their Servers Running to Protect Free Speech?

August 7, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Around the world, bloggers are reporting that yesterday, Russia may have launched an attack against Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Twitter to silence a pro-Georgia blogger ...
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Google Essajjawadde

July 15, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Kiyinza okuba nga ekivumo okugamba nti kampuni engagga ennyo nga Google etandise okukula naye mpuliriza. Ekimu ku bintu ebibadde bisinga okuvumaganya Google kya kuba nti tebabadde ...
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Josh Goldstein Becomes First Appfrica Fellow

July 3, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Josh Goldstien, blogger, activist, former Googler and Tufts University alumni has joined Appfrica Labs as our very first fellow! When I announced the Appfrica Fellows ...
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Reviewing the G2 and Google Android

June 5, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Last week at the Google I/O Developers’ Conference, I was lucky enough to snag the hottest phone money can’t buy (at least, not for a ...
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The Backlash Against Google Wave

May 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
It’s been called ‘arrogant‘, ‘terrifying‘ and ‘bloatware‘, not quite the reaction I think Google was expecting when they launched their newest product Wave this week. Wednesday ...
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Big Bing Theory

May 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
“But It’s Not Google” is the cheeky acronym some in the tech community have given to Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Microsoft has spent $80 ...
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