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China Mobile Profit Rises Amid Growth in Mobile Web Access
China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile carrier, reported a 3.9 percent increase in profit for 2010, as more of its customers access the Web via their mobile…
A History of Poverty: Charting International Development over Time
The Christian Aid ‘History of Poverty‘ [povertyover.com] is a quite sophisticated and 3D-esque world map that reveals the development of countries over the last few hundred years in terms of poverty. An annotated timeline provides some interaction possibilities with the data.
Where possible, the poverty scale is representative of the United Nations Development Programmes’ human development index (HDI). This HDI is a weighted index of GDP per capita, life expectancy (as indicator of health), literacy rates and school enrolment rates (indicators of education). Where UN data was not available, they have drawn from other sources including United Nations, World Bank development indicators, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics, and Task Force on Higher Education and Society.
The poverty threshold (the point at which countries turn from grey to orange) is equal to UNDP (2010) index for the highest ranking country in the ‘Low Human Development’ quartile (Kenya at 0.470)
Fox affiliate in Texas shoots news story on iPad
With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, Fox affiliate KBTV’s Mike McNeill stopped by Spec’s Liquor Store in Beaumont, Texas, to discuss the various alcoholic options available for properly (and responsibly) celebrating the holiday. In the video, McNeill claims he shot the entire report using only the camera in his new iPad 2.
“All the experts who know how to shoot these kind of stories are out on real stories,” says McNeill in his report. “So, I just grabbed my iPad 2 and decided hey, you know what, we’re Fox 4, we’re innovators.” Moments later, McNeill points the camera at his iPad 2 box as evidence that he’s using Apple’s new tablet to shoot the story.
This is the first known broadcast created using an iPad 2. Keep reading to see the video.
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EvoMouse Turns Your Digits Digital
cylonlover writes “With the plethora of mouse alternatives available or in development you’d be forgiven for thinking the humble computer mouse was some kind of torturous device inflicted upon computer users. But despite a multitude of challengers, the mouse has maintained its dominance while remaining largely unchanged since its unveiling in 1968. Now there’s another alternative cursor relocation device set to hit the market called the evoMouse that turns just about any flat surface into a virtual trackpad with your finger as the pointer.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.