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There are always room for improvements, but my overall impression of SMX São Paulo 2008 was positive.

In order to avoid duplicated content I’m linking to Sara Holoubek’s post at DM News.

brazil, event, sem conference, SMX

Appfrica, web portal offering news related to African innovation, education and entrepreneurship in technology, published information and statistics on the current state of Internet penetration in Africa.

Broadband Access Africa, Information Technology Statistics Africa, Internet users Africa

The Electronic Union of Travel Industry EUOTI is launching its FIRST International Congress concerned with the online travel business in Sharm El Sheikh Egypt 15-19/12/08

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Comscore has released figures showing that Google received a billion searches in June placing it number one with an 81% share. The largest local search engine was Rediff.com with a 1.5% share. India is a massive potential and growing market with 23 official languages but where English is the only lingua franca. Google Adwords is available in several - but by means all indian languages. via Searchengineland

Google in India, Indian search engines

According to The White African Blog, a new Ad network has been launched called Pamoja Media. Started by Joshua Wanyama (of AfricanPath) and Benin Mwangi (of Cheetah Index), it’s an ad network created to serve advertisers trying looking for a one-stop-shop for publishers in Africa, or that reach Africans in the diaspora.

Publisher requirements are quite high. Among other factors sites must have an Alexa ranking of 250,000 or better and a minimum of 2,000 pageviews per day. This looks like an interesting option for advertisers targeting the continent or publishers looking to monetize though.

Africa, AfricanPath, Benin Mwangi, Joshua Wanyama, Pamoja, Pamoja Media

Is Google finally becoming serious in approaching the Korean market? Joop Dorresteijn reports that blogging platform TNC has been acquired by Google today; making them the first acquired company by Google in Korea. (who’s counting anyway) TNC offers a blogging platform similar to Automatic, the application behind WordPress.

Source: TheNextWeb

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Is Google finally becoming serious in approaching the Korean market? Joop Dorresteijn reports that blogging platform TNC has been acquired by Google today; making them the first acquired company by Google in Korea. (who’s counting anyway) TNC offers a blogging platform similar to Automatic, the application behind WordPress.

Source: TheNextWeb

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According to The White African Blog, a new Ad network has been launched called Pamoja Media. Started by Joshua Wanyama (of AfricanPath) and Benin Mwangi (of Cheetah Index), it’s an ad network created to serve advertisers trying looking for a one-stop-shop for publishers in Africa, or that reach Africans in the diaspora.

Publisher requirements are quite high. Among other factors sites must have an Alexa ranking of 250,000 or better and a minimum of 200,000 pageviews per day. This looks like an interesting option for advertisers targeting the continent or publishers looking to monetize though.

Africa, AfricanPath, Benin Mwangi, Joshua Wanyama, Pamoja, Pamoja Media

Comscore has released figures showing that Google received a billion searches in June placing it number one with an 81% share. The largest local search engine was Rediff.com with a 1.5% share. India is a massive potential and growing market with 23 official languages but where English is the only lingua franca. Google Adwords is available in several - but by means all indian languages. via Searchengineland

Google in India, Indian search engines

The Electronic Union of Travel Industry EUOTI is launching its FIRST International Congress concerned with the online travel business in Sharm El Sheikh Egypt 15-19/12/08

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Appfrica, web portal offering news related to African innovation, education and entrepreneurship in technology, published information and statistics on the current state of Internet penetration in Africa.

Broadband Access Africa, Information Technology Statistics Africa, Internet users Africa

There are always room for improvements, but my overall impression of SMX São Paulo 2008 was positive.

In order to avoid duplicated content I’m linking to Sara Holoubek’s post at DM News.

brazil, event, sem conference, SMX

The Complexity and Social Networks Blog presents an interesting paper on mobile phone users and data stored in service provider databases around the world, discussing the different types of data captured and how it can be used to provide insight into human cultures.

Examples are provided from a variety of cultures and hundreds of millions of individuals, illustrating how phones can be used as a cultural lens, improving understanding of a particular cultures pace of life, reactions to outlier events, and social networks.

The paper in PDF format can be downloaded here.

call graphs, data mining, mobile phone usage, privacy, social networks, telecommunications

Intel signed a deal with the Portuguese government in which they will provide experience and know how in the education market in order to put 500 thousand small PCs in the hands of children with ages raging from 6 to 10 years old.

The computers, named “Magalhães” in honour of the Portuguese explorer, will cost between zero € (for underprivileged kids) up to 50€. When they come out of the factory (which by the way is in Portugal), the retail price is near the 180€ mark, the remaining value being subsidized by the government and telecommunication companies.

The computers include wifi capability (as well as broad band Internet access), but the price does not include home Internet connections.

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According to the The European Information Technology Observatory (EITO):

• Revenues from Internet access growing by more than 10 percent
• Telephone flat rates and online video sales are stimulating business
• Germany is the largest single market in the EU with a 25 percent share

The increase in revenue (+10,7% in 2008) is attributed to the falling prices of high speed DSL connections. Lower connection costs and higher speed stimulate consumption for online services (Music and Video on Demand).
According to the the latest EITO forecast, by the end of 2008 there will be an estimated 114 million broadband Internet connections in Western Europe, making fast data lines available to 26 percent of the population.

• Download press release (.doc)
• Download data sheet ICT market overview of the EU (.pdf)

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