In Rural Africa, a Fertile Market for Mobile Phones
By SARAH ARNQUIST, Uganda — Laban Rutagumirwa charges his mobile phone with a car battery because his dirt-floor home deep in the remote, banana-covered hills of western Uganda does not have ...
East Africa’s drought a looming catastrophe.
From The Economist print edition. THIS year’s drought is the worst in east Africa since 2000, and possibly since 1991. Famine stalks the land. The failure of rains in parts ...
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$110 million fibre optic deal
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By STEPHEN GREENSPAN Illustration by Mick Coulas There are few areas where skepticism...
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Turning Page, E-Books Start to Take Hold
By BRAD STONE and MOTOKO RICH The New York Times Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from paper to pixels? Although Amazon will not disclose sales figures, the Kindle has at least lived up to its name by creating broad interest in electronic books. For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard... [Read more of this review]
Top gadgets in 2008
By Shane McGlaun It’s almost Christmas and that means 2008 has but a few days left before we roll into 2009. Looking back at 2008, a few products, and product categories have stood out from the majority of the gadgets offered up this year. Today I am going to talk a bit about some of my picks for the best gear of 2008. Best Smartphone Smartphones... [Read more of this review]
Love, loss and the world wide web
By Ewan Spence, Paris Paris is not just for lovers, it is for web entrepreneurs too “Starting up a business is similar to falling in love,” said Loic Le Meur, organiser of the Le Web conference that brought the cream of Europe’s web developers together in Paris this week. “When you start a business you’re... [Read more of this review]
Open source software cheaper option for government bodies
Written by Okuttah Mark December 22, 2008: Linux Professional Association on Kenya, a group of local software developers, has embarked on a sensitisation programme among government bodies with the aim of wooing them to use Free Open Source Software (FOSS). Among government bodies targeted are the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA)... [Read more of this review]
New technology to offer mass market BlackBerry service
Written by Kui Kinyanjui The new service dubbed ‘Mwananchi’s BlackBerry’ will allow users to read emails without using Internet. December 19, 2008: A new partnership between a Kenyan value-added mobile services provider and an Indian programming firm seeks to introduce what its creators call the ‘Mwananchi’s BlackBerry’ to the market. Owners... [Read more of this review]
TECHNOLOGY-KENYA: On the Way to Getting Wired
Joyce Mulama NAIROBI, Jul 1 (IPS) – In 1961, there was just one to be had. By 1985, that figure had increased to 1,800 — and at the beginning of last year, it stood at about 520,000, according to government figures. There’s no disputing that computer ownership in Kenya is on the increase. Even so, the path to ensuring that the majority... [Read more of this review]
2009 security predictions: Deja vu all over again
By Jaikumar Vijayan , Computerworld The security industry is fueled largely by FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.) So it’s not unusual for most forecasts in the industry to be full of grim prognostications of imminent chaos and calamities. By that measure, the predictions contained in several recent security forecasts for... [Read more of this review]
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