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Intel's Yolo low-cost smartphone debuts

Safaricom today announced a smartphone based an Intel design -- part of the chipmaker's effort to enter the global low-cost phone market.

The Yolo smartphone is aimed "cost-conscious...first-time buyers" in Kenya, said Intel, which is responsible for both the core electronics and phone's design.

That design was announced at CES 2013.

Inside the 3.5-inch Yolo is an Intel Atom Z2420 processor that can run at speeds up to 1.2 GHz and Intel's XMM 6265 modem with HSPA+ support for global roaming.

Yolo will be sold in Safaricom shops in Kenya at an … Read more

Apology to Kenyan firm ends Google's week from hell

The week has been a rough one for Google, and it's ending on a particularly embarrassing note.

First, the company's new Google+ search feature raises the ire of some people and then prompts a complaint to the FTC. Then Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is forced to defend the fragmentation, I mean "differentiation," in the Android market that even Google partners acknowledge is an issue.

And now, shame-faced Google executives are publicly apologizing for some shenanigans that involve their team in Kenya.

Executives at Mocality, an online business directory in Kenya, are accusing the search giant … Read more

Bringing tech jobs to Third World refugees

Workers stuck in the world's largest refugee camp are being given a chance to wield a mouse and keyboard as tools for digging their way out of poverty, and in the process, are helping out a series of small American companies looking to be more profitable.

The workers, many of whom have been in the refugee camp in Kenya for years, are toiling at new jobs--in which they do short, simple projects over the Internet--provided to them by an innovative San Francisco nonprofit serving as an intermediary between companies needing an efficient way to get small tasks done and … Read more