NTEN

DECEMBER 28, 2011

My wife and I lived at a dusty intersection of two unpaved streets in Kayes, Mali. The truck drivers had used their cell phones to get the word out to their networks via text message as the approached the city. During our time in Africa, mobile phones became ubiquitous. It was a heck of a thing to witness.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

This CPU is paired with an Arm Mali-G78 GPU, and a tri-core NPU (neural processing unit) for handling AI tasks. While Samsung is expected to use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 in the Galaxy S21 in the US, it’s this Exynos processor that’ll likely power the phone across much of the rest of the world.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Google is set to debut its first in-house smartphone chipset, the Tensor SoC, in its upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones. And it’ll likely stay that way, too, until Google reveals more information when the phones arrive later this fall. Photo: Sundar Pichai / Twitter.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 26, 2007

Last weekend I met Canadian filmmaker Sylvain l'Esperance, whose wonderful documentary about life in the Niger Inland Delta region of Mali was showing at the Toronto Hot Docs film festival. Folks like The Other Michael Stein have been blogging for a while now about the value of cell phones in mobilizing advocacy campaigns.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The street corner I lived on in Mali was typically quiet (by African standards, anyway): aside from the woman who sold fried dough stuffed with shredded meat, most people just passed by. A merchant had coordinated the gathering via text message. Mobile is the future, but it's also here, right now.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Geekcorps Mali, our approach was: through great engineering feats attempt to somehow lower the costs of access, while hopefully creating sustainable “business models” in the process. Mobile phones have made the uptake of ICT services achievable because they have become incredibly available. Realizing Potential .

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Over the long weekend I finally managed to get started on a new project I've been excited to get involved with - a new website for the Sigida Keneyali health project in Mali that I blogged about in January. Mobile: An Open/Standards-based phone to debut. The company will be releasing their phone, the Neo1973, sometime in November.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. Cell phones and wireless technology mean rural areas don't need expensive landlines. " Who could argue with that? The Unforeseen. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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Forum One

APRIL 24, 2009

I recently was able to spend an amazing evening enjoying one of my new fave artists, Habib Koité and his band Bamada , based in Mali. At one point there were no less then 10 video cameras and many more cameras / camera phones being openly held up within 20 feet of the stage and Koité was openly mugging for most of them.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. ADB also collects and sorts office waste, including ink cartridges and PCs, as well as mobile phones for recycling or reuse in its thrift stores. ADB now collects approximately 180,000 mobile phones per year.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. "The effective utilization of technology — from mobile phones to broadband Internet to sensors — will be a key determinant in how, when, and if the Sustainable Development Goals are achieved.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Crucially, Arm doesn’t actually make its own chips: rather, it sells both licenses for companies to design their own chips that use Arm’s architecture (like Apple’s M-series chips for Macs), in addition to selling entire CPU and GPU designs (like the Cortex-X1 CPU and Mali GPUs found in the Google Tensor and Samsung Exynos 2100).

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