Tech Podcast: M-PESA, Y2K10, and Call of Duty

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And…we’re back, ready for a whole new year of fun and frolics on the Tech Podcast. The centerpiece for this episode is a conversation with Tavneet Suri of MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Suri, a Kenyan herself, has been studying the impact of the mobile money transfer system called M-PESA on her native country. We’ve also got two items on tech and Iran, some news about a Y2K10 bug in Germany, and some Russians who are riled about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

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‘Modern warfare 2′ in Russia

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The latest version of the videogame Call of Duty is selling like hotcakes – in Russia. But its realistic battles put some there on edge and in this game, the Russians are the bad guys. Laura Lynch reports. Download MP3

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