Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers

Itinerant agriculture and forest fires concur for the destruction and reduction of biodiversity.

And our lander is safely tucked inside what we call an aero shuttle.

All public utilities are available in this area as well as cell phone coverage.

EB That's when we separate from the back shell, and we're now in free fall.

In just three days, more than a million Americans had donated 10 with the aid of text messages from their cellphones.

BC We separate from the lander going 125 miles an hour at roughly a kilometer above the surface of Mars 3,200 feet.

In its next stage, the platform will be accessible from smartphones and tablets using a mobile app.

Chinese Communist Party President Hu Jintao s peripatetic diplomacy across Africa has ensured that the Chinese are omnipresent there.

To build this export market, Darfur will need help with transport and storage, cell phone coverage, power, veterinary care, and technical advice.

Cell phones and Internet connectivity could reach all of Africa at low cost, ending the economic isolation of hundreds of millions of people.

Two old men of 80 and 85 years respectively were guarding their properties day and night against army patrols, touring bulldozers and threats of various sorts.

At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab including tales and video from the Mars Rover project.

So what you are seeing here are the layers on the wall of that crater, and the Rover is going down now, measuring, you know, the properties and analyzing the rocks as it's going down, you know, that canyon.

And also to help you, to help the community so you can do ads on that Rover, we are going to train that Rover to actually in addition to do this, to actually serve cocktails, you know, also on Mars.

But mobile phones and wireless Internet end isolation, and will therefore prove to be the most transformative technology of economic development of our time.

And that's what we found out. It turned out that every once in a while there are dust devils which come by on Mars, as you are seeing here, and when the dust devil comes over the Rover, it just cleans it up.

At the same time, the application of risk management technology, insurance, and finance requires little of stretched foreign aid budgets a relatively small number of office workers, cell phones, and computers.

But now that we've been given media tools the Internet, mobile phones that let us do more than consume, what we're seeing is that people weren't couch potatoes because we liked to be.

And this article from The Economist summed it up beautifully about the opportunities in health across the developing world Mobile phones made a bigger difference to the lives of more people, more quickly, than any previous technology.

And we actually used the combination of the satellite images and the Rover to actually conduct science, because we can observe large areas and then you can get those Rovers to move around and basically go to a certain location.

Part of Hariri s legacy was the award of quasi monopolistic licences to cronies for mobile telephones, for example and the sale of government debt at highly profitable rates to local banks in which had a direct interest.

Today we are fighting the first war in the era of e mail, blogs, blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras, the Internet, mobile phones, talk radio, and 24 hour news.

Due to the economies of scale that the common market made possible, Nokia was able to exploit its inventions fully, while Germany s Siemens recently decided to give up on the mobile phone market.

The flow of digital information through mobile phones, text messaging, and the Internet is now reaching the world s masses, even in the poorest countries, bringing with it a revolution in economics, politics, and society.

Ushahidi the name means witness or testimony in Swahili is a very simple way of taking reports from the field, whether it's from the web or, critically, via mobile phones and SMS, aggregating it and putting it on a map.

Cell phone coverage could revolutionize communications for sparse populations in Darfur s vast territory, with major benefits for livelihoods, physical survival, and the maintenance of family ties.

Think of Nokia, the mobile phone maker. Due to the economies of scale that the common market made possible, Nokia was able to exploit its inventions fully, while Germany s Siemens recently decided to give up on the mobile phone market.

The earlier arrest of Mohammed Odeh on August 7 while traveling to meet with Osama, is said to have alerted bin Laden, who canceled the meeting which meant that the camps targeted by the cruise missiles were mainly empty the day of the U.S. strike.

The agreement will also allow international Vodafone customers to access mobile service in Iran through this partnership, similar to the partnership that US based telco AT T recently formed with Iranian mobile operator RighTel to provide cell phone coverage to US SIM cards in Iran.

NEW YORK The digital divide is beginning to close. The flow of digital information through mobile phones, text messaging, and the Internet is now reaching the world s masses, even in the poorest countries, bringing with it a revolution in economics, politics, and society.