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· July, 2006

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Stories about Technology from July, 2006

Polish Blogosphere Update

Better late than never… That's what PolBlog hopes bloggers will think in response to its latest foray into blogging technology. Its new “Talk Back Attack” features an audio comment option...

Written by Jordan & Maria Seidel
18 July 2006

China: Blogsphere

Lyn Jeffery in Virtual China reports on China Market research's finding in Chinese blogsphere: “CMR estimates that 80% of Chinese online urban youth 18-25 (50 million people) are actively blogging...

Written by Oiwan Lam
18 July 2006

China: baidu space

Williamlong has an initial analysis (zh) on baidu space. There are several inadequacies as blog platform, including 1. its encoding system is not UTF-8; 2. very long url; 3. cannot...

Written by Oiwan Lam
17 July 2006

Hong Kong: PCCW

Richard Li sold out PCCW, the biggest telecom in Hong Kong on July 11 to a pro China Hong Kong based Businessman, Francis Leung. After this contraversal move, he is...

Written by Oiwan Lam
14 July 2006

Kenya: Korogocho online

Korogocho, a slum area of Nairobi, is going online, writes Kenyan Pundit, who also nods in the direction of a “computers for all Nigerians” scheme and a commentary on the...

Written by Luisetta Mudie
13 July 2006

Uganda: Music downloads

White African and Timbuktu Chronicles both report on the first company in Uganda to offer music downloads, True African. But it doesn't want to stay just doing that. Once more,...

Written by Luisetta Mudie
13 July 2006

Across West Africa this week

We start this week's blog round-up with Under the Acacias who blogs: Osama bin Laden in Burkina Faso The face of Osama bin Laden glared down at me from his...

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao
13 July 2006

Colombia: First WiMax Network in Cali

Engadget, Fayer Wayer (ES), and the podcast Todos Contra el Muro (ES) all discuss Latin America's first deployment of WiMax long-range wireless internet coverage in Cali, Colombia.

Written by David Sasaki
12 July 2006

Peru: “Why is Hi5 So Famous?”

In Eastern Europe it's LiveJournal, in Brazil, Orkut. Tinta Fantasma tries to figure out why Hi5 is fast becoming the prevalent social networking site in Peru (ES).

Written by David Sasaki
11 July 2006

Kenya: Mobile micro-banking

White African talks to talented young developers and mobile phone experts. “We talked at length about the need for a mobile/web payment system that could be used by non-techies and...

Written by Luisetta Mudie
10 July 2006

Russia: Putin and Sex

Sean's Russia Blog quotes Vladimir Putin's response to an Internet user's question about sex: “‘I can't remember exactly when I did it for the first time,’ a laughing Putin said....

Written by Veronica Khokhlova
10 July 2006

China: internet registration

William Long reports that the chongqing provincial government recently demanded that individual going online at home should set up a file at the police station or else the online service...

Written by Oiwan Lam
10 July 2006

Nigeria: A PC for all

Grandiose Parlour writes about a the Computers for All Nigerians Initiatives (CANI), a government-private sector collaboration aimed at increasing PC penetration in Nigeria, which is currently only at seven in...

Written by Luisetta Mudie
7 July 2006
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