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Live Aid for the Internet age

News What's the difference between Saturday's Live 8 concert to combat poverty in Africa and the Live Aid benefit held 20 years ago? The concert is aimed at getting those leaders to commit more aid money to Africa.

4 July 2005, 10:22

News.blog: MIT's brain-to-machine aid

News Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said on Wednesday that they've developed an algorithm for a neural prosthetic aid that can link an individual's brain activity to the person's intentions and then translate that intention...

4 October 2007, 8:55

Photos: Computer Aid warms Chile

News Chilean Ambassador Rafael Moreno (right) receives the first of a 7,000-strong consignment of refurbished PCs from Tony Roberts, founder of London-based charity Computer Aid International. Computer Aid has recently celebrated a landmark, having...

5 July 2006, 9:19

Handheld computers to aid police on beat

News The prime minister has pledged to arm police with thousands of 'handheld computers' so officers can make more effective use of their time and increase the amount of frontline policing they do. Gordon Brown, making his maiden speech as leader to the...

27 September 2007, 8:47

Refurbished PCs help to fight against AIDS

News UK IT charity Computer Aid is working with an education charity to provide schools in the developing world with the technology to educate pupils about the spread and prevention of HIV and AIDS. Computer Aid announced on Thursday that it is working...

23 October 2006, 9:41

Help CNET bridge the digital divide

News In association with Computer Aid International, the project is looking to raise enough money to kit out several Kenyan schools with complete computer suites -- where access to computers can make a massive difference to the quality of education and...

16 October 2006, 9:30

Donated PCs produce African media centres

News Computers For Schools Kenya (CFSK) is an NGO that works with UK charities, such as Computer Aid, to take PCs that are no longer up to the rigours of Vista and other processor-intensive applications and redistribute them to schools and colleges in...

17 September 2007, 12:52

Microsoft defends Vista's green impact

News IT charity Computer Aid has also highlighted the impact that Vista could have in terms of discarded hardware. Tony Roberts, chief executive of Computer Aid, said that up to 10 million PCs may be discarded in the next two years as a direct result of...

1 February 2007, 9:30

Recycling legislation means polluter must now pay

News Computer Aid, a UK based charity that takes old PCs and distributes them to schools and other organisations in developing countries, has produced a guide to help companies looking for more information on how to comply with WEEE.

3 July 2007, 9:17

UK and US work on Web science initiative

News Social scientists can help analyse online communities and experts in life sciences can aid Web scientists in understanding how complex systems like the human body -- or the Web -- operate, she said. Adoption of the Semantic Web -- a W3C...

3 November 2006, 11:21

Photos: Low-cost tech aids basic needs

News The beige hearing aid is shown here plugged into a solar charger. The Solar Aid, invented in 1992 in Botswana, is a solar-powered hearing aid that costs less than $40 (£20). The world of consumer electronics thrives on the latest, greatest and...

27 September 2007, 10:37

News.blog: New top-end Olympus dSLR in October?

News An LCD that can swivel to different angles to aid with live view composition. A weather-sealed extra battery compartment that can aid in shooting vertically-oriented pictures. Olympus publicly showed prototypes of its new top-end digital SLR in...

13 July 2007, 8:44

UN examines potential Net regulation role

News Delegates from poorer countries repeatedly cited the digital divide, arguing that it was widening, not narrowing, and that more foreign aid and investments from corporations would be vital over the next decade.

26 March 2004, 13:50

Apple told it must get greener

News Tony Roberts, chief executive of UK IT refurbishment charity Computer Aid, which regularly sends shipments of re-conditioned PCs to Africa, agreed that a clear distinction needs to be made between dumping e-waste and donating first-class...

7 December 2006, 10:02

News.blog: Nvidia to give PC games a 3D option

News Beginning this summer, any PC with an Nvidia graphics processor will have the ability to run a game in normal mode, or in 3D, with the aid of 3D glasses. Thanks to a new software driver Nvidia is cooking up, any PC game can be played in 3D, with no...

Tags: driver, part, eye, developers

30 April 2008, 9:16