"Skype links up Apple users with app for mobile video calls"

Ericsson China buys Nortel's joint venture for US$50m" from South China Morning Post

"No mountain too high as Wi-fi scales Himalayas" from South China Morning Post

"It used to take teacher Mahabir Pun more than two days to check his e-mail from his home in the remote Himalayan village of Nagi in western Nepal."


"Today, all Pun has to do is log on to the wireless network he has set up over the past few years, catapulting more than 100 impoverished villages in Nepal into the 21st century.

The technology has transformed lives in some of the most inhospitable places on earth, where there are no roads or hospitals and where most people scratch out a meagre living as subsistence farmers."


"Once again, Pun asked his foreign volunteers to bring what they could to help - customs officials, he reasoned, would be unlikely to suspect Western backpackers of smuggling in contraband communications equipment.

Nagi was the first village to be connected and, by September 2003, five villages in Myagdi district, about 300 kilometres northwest of Kathmandu, were accessing the network."

"A German website matchmakes worldwide need with philanthropy" from Wired UK

" "The real change will come from bottom-up approaches. We very rarely hear about the recipients of aid. We have to use SMS since many beneficiaries don't have internet access, but they all have a Nokia." "

"But if gestures convey some vital extra information, people in larger groups may limit their communication to nearby co-foragers." from The Economist

"It will also touch on the importance of total attention, as opposed to multitasking, and interpreting clues from verbal signs and body languages that convey a big part of any message." from South China Morning Post

" "Often, the lead clinician or surgeon does not create a fostering environment and encourage people to speak up," Marshall says." "

" "But through training, you can introduce models and practices, so that staff at every level listen more and are more responsive. It is not theoretical. There are tools and checklists to use straight away and the same fundamental principles apply across platforms and sectors. Once you change the approach, everybody wins."

  For example, he notes that team briefings before operating are relatively new in the health care sector. Meetings can be short, lasting no more than 90 seconds, but ensure everyone understands what needs to be done concerning the patient, procedure and individual tasks." from South China Morning Post