I’m really beginning to believe the dream of One Laptop Per Child when I saw that CherryPal has come out with the Africa. Yes, it is called the Africa, and it is a very inexpensive netbook priced at $99. It has a 7-inch display, 400MHz processor, 256MB memory, 2GB flash memory, and can run Linux [...]

According to a recent article in the journal New Scientist, third world countries like Africa are leading the way in cell phone innovation that combines the power of a personal computer with the portability of a cell phone handset. Many European countries and most Asia countries are far ahead of the U.S. when it comes [...]

The following events actually happened recently and they go to prove the utility of any cell phone and particularly of any smartphone. A British surgeon was a volunteer with the French medical charity Medicin Sans Frontieres. David Nott found a boy in Africa who needed to have it’s gangrenous arm amputated. That’s when he asked [...]