Two independent legal opinions commissioned by the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) support a conclusion that in the event of a lawful run-off not being held, the candidate who obtained the greatest number of votes in the election of 29 March 2008 has been duly elected as President and must be declared as such.
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Limited User Interaction: SMS applications are a perfect fit for simple query-based services. People are entering one or two keywords and get the answer. Given that there is no direct interaction, no online-help of any kind, people have to remember the keywords and the format to enter them, and so the list of these keywords has to be limited. Complex multi-cycles interactions in such stateless environment are almost impossible to implement. The availability of only “raw” text (no style or decoration techniques available) could also be a problem to attract user’s attention on important points.
Robert from the Swedish Helsinki Committee earlier spoke about how the KGB (yes, they are still called that) in Belarus sent SMS’s out to dissuade potential dissidents from demonstrating by saying there was a bomb where they planned to meet. Whilst the KGB’s tactics didn’t entirely succeed, it powerfully illustrates the issues around information and communication technology.
Google mobile search stores the most recent search term in a text file, and mobile browsers cache content along with the accompanying URLs and graphics. Nokia handsets have started automatically geo-tagging photographs, so locations and times can also be established with ease, while the iPhone stores a screenshot of every application as it’s closed (so it can zoom into it when the user returns). Even basic handsets can provide data from unlikely sources: the predictive-text dictionary is a fine source of names and places, even if the presence of an unusual name doesn’t prove anything it can be hard to explain. These days even the cheapest phone is likely to have a camera, with photographs that can be vital evidence; and even something as apparently innocuous as the last Bluetooth search (which is generally cached) can turn up interesting snippets of information in the right circumstances.
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The new Solar Charger is the latest and smallest addition to the Devotec range. Weighing in at less than 80g, this tiny charger can still keep your phone juiced up twice over before needing a recharge.
Keeping the Solar Charger powered up is even easier than ever now, as its solar panel can charge the built in 1800mAh battery when you have access to sunlight, or you can use the supplied USB charger cable, or even the UK 3 prong AC adapter (for our non-UK customers, the Extended Solar Charger pack includes a travel charger to juice up the charger from just about any AC socket).
There’re roughly 3,000,000,000 phones on the planet which means there’re also 3,000,000,000 chargers. The average charger consumes 300mW on standby. You can do the math. The waste is tremendous. In addition, most mobile phones take only ~60 minutes to fully recharge these days. Yet most of us keep them plugged for hours… while resting at night.
Homegrown people planet profit – Raphael Grignani – Thoughts
A tonne of ore from a gold mine produces just 5 grams (0.18 ounce) of gold on average, whereas a tonne of discarded mobile phones can yield 150 grams (5.3 ounce) or more, according to a study by Yokohama Metal Co Ltd, another recycling firm. The same volume of discarded mobile phones also contains around 100 kg (220 lb) of copper and 3 kg (6.6 lb) of silver, among other metals.
Urban miners look for precious metals in cell phones – Yahoo! News
Pay attention to the sounds, other people going about their lives, cars and buses passing by, the architecture of buildings, the colours and shapes and symbols around you. Look out for patterns, coincidences, and most importantly, pay attention to the internal dialogue going on in your head: it’ll be trying to pick apart the problem at hand, and you can follow some basic retrospective techniques to work some of it out once you’re in that state of mind.
We sent this text message to our subscribers to seek their opinion: Kubatana! Government of national unity: Solution or sell out? What do you think? Reply with your thoughts via SMS or email info [at] kubatana [dot] org [dot] zw We’ve received a flood of replies, particularly via SMS, with voices against a government of national unity out numbering those in favour of it by about 10:1. Here are just a few of the comments we’ve received:
Becky Faith 