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wisePad services for vision-, hearing-, and speech-impaired users

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They promise mobile information access and assistive Web services for tens of millions worldwide.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 1
Rural engineering development
January 2009
125 pages
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DOI:10.1145/1435417
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