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While doing some research, I stumbled across the following paragraph from a restaurant marketing site:
Say you’re a restaurant.  People with these devices can now be driving home from work and open an app that shows local restaurants…choose from a list…. get ratings and reviews… click the link to your site… look at the menu and photos….see that your restaurant is what they’re looking for and tap to make a reservation… all in mere moments from their phone.
Amazing times we’re in.  Make sure your site is ready.
Now the big news in …

In an attempt to give everyone access to the world’s information, Google is launching a series of SMS-based services aimed at the African market.
It has always been Google’s mission to simplify the way people seek knowledge and information, but while countries like the UK and the USA have succumbed to its charms, states with limited internet access have hindered this mission in a global context.
Africa is a classic example of this problem. According to Internet World Stats, there were around 54 million internet users in Africa in December 2008 - …