The Ndiyo Blog

When visiting another organisation’s office recently, I realised how much I had taken for granted as a Mac and Linux user. I discovered that a standard installation of Windows XP not only won’t play Quicktime movies, it won’t even play MPEG-4 out of the box, which meant that for many people, viewing our little movies about the trial installations we did last year in Bangladesh and South Africa was rather tricky.

To remedy this, I’ve uploaded the movies to YouTube, so you can find them embedded in the appropriate pages. Please have a look if you haven’t seen them already - they’re quite short.

• Attridgeville, South Africa
• Fultola, Bangladesh

We’re very pleased to start 2007 with news of a new team member. Before joining Ndiyo, Dr Michael Dales was designing new forms of high-speed networking at the Intel Research Lab here in Cambridge. Michael brings a wealth of relevant hardware and software experience, and we’re delighted to have him on the team.