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LatAm taxis: no more rides on the wild side
Two years ago, Swiss backpack traveler Clemens Raemy found out what everyone in the region already knew: getting a cab in Latin America can be a high-stakes roulette. If all goes well, you get to your...
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China: lots of three kingdoms, not enough Angry Birds
China isn’t going to come up with a big blockbuster game like “Angry Birds” any time soon. That’s the view of the chairman of China’s largest mobile games business. “Our games developers don’t dream...
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Tech Mahindra’s free rape alarm app
After the fatal assualt and gang-rape of a 23 year-old woman in Delhi last month, Tech Mahindra – a technology and consulting company in the Mahindra Group – has made free to the Indian public an...
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BlackBerry 10: the Kerala connection
Imagine an app that talks you through your yoga routine. Or an app that allows you to unlock your car, start the engine and turn on the air-conditioning remotely. These are just two ideas developed by...
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Corporate watch: Bollywood by mobile
A company that launched on April Fool’s Day and takes its name from the Hindi word for chaos doesn’t sound like a winner. But in its 14 years Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, the parent of...
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Looking for toilet paper in Venezuela? There’s an app for that
It turns out that President Nicolas Maduro thinks that the plan to introduce food rationing in Zulia, Venezuela’s most populous state, is “crazy”. Regardless of whether he always thought that, or...
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India’s medium of the future: radio
With all the noise around new technology we tend to forget the old. When India shut its telegram service this week, the response showed that a significant rural population still used the facility. But...
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Corporate Watch: arranging marriages on Shaadi.com
Being recognised by Bollywood is often the ultimate accolade for anything in India – an issue, a person, a business. But the folks at India’s number one matrimonial website seem admirably unfazed by...
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