North Korea’s cell phone network

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North Korea is often portrayed as a country in a time-warp. But as Jason Strother reports, the number of cell phone users has grown dramatically, since the arrival of an Egyptian mobile network in 2008. Download MP3

Promotional video for N Korea’s Koryolink network

Haiti’s mobile money

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Sarah Palin urged Americans on Sunday not to forget Haiti as she wrapped up a weekend visit to the Caribbean nation still struggling with a cholera outbreak, earthquake reconstruction and political crisis. Haitians have been looking for ways to help themselves and some are using their cell phones in interesting ways to do so, as Sabri Ben-Acho reports from Haiti. Download MP3
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Tech Podcast: New study on Tetris and trauma

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Can playing a visual video game like Tetris help ease the effects of trauma? Some researchers at the University of Oxford are trying to answer that question. You’ll hear from them in this week’s technology podcast.Download this episode (19:55)

Tech Podcast: Cell phones fight fake drugs

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In this week’s tech podcast, we hear about a company that’s using cell phone text messaging and scratch off labels to help tackle the trade in counterfeit drugs in Nigeria. We also have the story of Red Star, North Korea’s open source, but not-so-open, operating system. And, we hear about how the Finnish post office wants to scan snail mail, and email it on to you!

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Technology Podcast: Smart phones for scientists

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In this week’s technology podcast, you can hear how some scientists in Britain are working to develop an open source application for smartphones that will allow field researchers to do some pretty sophisticated data collection and mapping. It’s all in an effort to fight the spread of infectious diseases across the globe. Also, we have a story on the future of electric vehicles, and a US researcher takes a look at how politicians Tweet in the US and UK.

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Tech Podcast 260: Promising AIDS vaccine, Embrace thermoregulator, and Scottish worms

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The highlight of this week’s podcast is a segment suggested by one of you, the tech podcast faithful. It’s about the Embrace, a low-cost incubator that may help save the lives of premature and low birth weight babies in the developing world. Also, you’ll hear about a promising AIDS vaccine trial. We end with Scottish earthworms, and a Mumbai cell phone symphony.

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Cell Phones in the Classroom, New Wikipedia Guidelines, Steam Car Redux, and Artificial Trees

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Any podcast that has artificial trees (pictured) in it has to be good right? We hope so. We’ve also got some other great stories. We hear from one history teacher who is exploring new ways to integrate technology into the classroom. We also talk about how your cell phone is linked to violence in Congo, and we hear from Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales about some new editing guidelines. All that, plus an update on those Brits and their marvelous steam-powered car.

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The violence behind Congo’s mineral trade

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The World’s Jeb Sharp reports on how the trade in minerals used in cell phones and laptops fuels the conflict in eastern Congo.

Hacking into celebrity cell phones

The News of The World, a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, has allegedly been hacking into thousands of celebrity cell phones. Anchor Jeb Sharp speaks with The World’s Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd to find out how this sort of hacking is done.
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Vodafone Wireless Winners, UK DNA Database, Swine Flu Questions Answered, and Airplanes!

On this week’s Technology Podcast, we hear about some wireless technologies that could improve lives across the globe. Check out the cell phone that’s been modded into a microscope! We also take an in-depth look at Britain’s DNA database, and the political ruckus that it’s causing. You sent your swine flu questions in, so we take 15 minutes and try to answer some of them. And we finish with another competition — Airbus wants to fly more efficiently, and is asking for help. The finalists include one team that wants to fly gaggles of planes in an inverted “V” formation…like geese. Listen