Checking the news, I found out about another cool company trying to bring internet access to the most remote parts of the world. It is called United Village (http://www.unitedvillages.com/).
Their idea is to provide WiFi enabled PCs to kiosks in the rural areas of third-world countries. Students hired by Universal Village then drive around with a bus that automatically communicates with these PCs and send a cached update of the most popular websites (eg. Cricket results, etc.). At the same time it delivers and receives the latest emails, voicemail (which enables villagers to have a phone number), Google searches (yes…!!), etc. They are currently doing it in India, but are about to expand to Brazil and China.
I don’t know how scalable this business model is, but I must say it is a cool idea to try to break the digital divide and move slightly towards a universal internet access.

It’s here at last! The latest Whisher for Windows release is now available for download, with the following changes and fixes:

New features:

• Twitter auto-update when connecting or changing status.

Fixes and updates:

• The signals list could be corrupted on the login screen in some cases.
• Various memory leaks and race conditions.
• Startup time improved.
• Refresh the Twitter feed after a service failure.
• Special characters in the file name caused the shared list to not be broadcast.
• Improved copy & paste in the chat window.
• Various GUI inconsistencies.
• Automated FON login has been improved.

There are plenty other bug fixes and tweaks, too minor to list here, but we’d like to thank all the beta testers and users who have reported their experiences and issues to us, it helps us make Whisher better every day.