In 2012, global phone shipments hit 1.6 billion units, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, with Samsung shipping a massive 396.5 million phones last year.
Continue reading… “Global mobile phone shipments hit 1.6 billion on 2012”
In 2012, global phone shipments hit 1.6 billion units, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, with Samsung shipping a massive 396.5 million phones last year.
Continue reading… “Global mobile phone shipments hit 1.6 billion on 2012”
Rapidly increasing world food prices have already led to political upheaval in poor countries. The crisis threatens to tear apart fragile states and become a humanitarian calamity unless countries get their agricultural systems moving.
Now, with conference committee negotiations over the final shape of the Farm Bill at a critical stage, Congress needs to change the foreign food-aid program and help avert this calamity. The Bush administration has urged, rightly, that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) be allowed to buy food locally, particularly in Africa, instead of only American-grown food.
Continue reading… “Key to Hunger Problem – Stop Sending Food”