14 hours from Lhasa to Golmud, one power socket in the carriage alternately occupied by the guards laptop and the guards printer. Infrastructure is: what …
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Discussions around the recent GSM Association announcement of a universal Micro-USB phone charger are missing half of the point. There are obvious stakeholders affected by this …
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How you know whether something is really, absolutely working as planned? Light bulbs on the front of a mobile phone recharging stall in Kabul.
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This Akasaka coffee shop includes a row of accessible power sockets (running a long the edge of the window) primarily to support laptop use – …
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Power cuts are a daily fact of life in Uganda so it’s no surprise that power, or lack of power has affected the field study …
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You are out and about and your phone runs out of power – what are your options? Something you see a lot in Asia but not …
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