Sales of smart tech devices are soaring as the traditional PC declines. Observer writers look at their impact, which is already helping children to learn, spreading literacy, improving healthcare, boosting harvests in Africa – and making the web giants sit up
Kenya building a digital future in Africa’s silicon savannah
Turkana women examine photos of a festival rehearsal on a laptop in Loiyangaleni, Kenya. Photograph: David Mbiyu/Demotix/Corbis BY: David Smithin Nairobi for guardian.co.uk,Tuesday 30 October 2012 16.41 GMT Fibre optic cable delivering revolutionary change was laid while African neighbours were booking hotels for more talking shops If there is such a thing as an African […]
Apple goes to war with its rivals
‘Trashtalk’: Apple’s Phil Schiller launches the iPad Mini last week… with a swipe at the competition. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images BY:John Naughton for The Observer, Sunday 28 October 2012 Apple, Google and now Microsoft are slugging it out in the battle to sell us tablet computers. And the competition can only be a good thing […]
West Africa’s technological revolution driven by mobile phones
Whether it’s tracking locusts or government spending, west Africa’s hi-tech firms are finding new solutions to social problems
iPhone 5 – review
With features including Siri, turn-by-turn navigation, new maps, a panoramic camera, 4G, restore to iCloud and a new digital dock, the iPhone 5 has it all – and it is ahead of the competition again
New Kenya: Business Process Outsourcing, destination Nairobi
BY: Geoffrey Manono The government’s strategic plan ‘vision 2030’ singles out Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) as one of the six pillars to drive the country to a medium developed economy. In the short run the government aims at achieving a top three position as a BPO destination in Africa. The government has taken key steps […]
Kalonzo Musyoka hails technology city as start of something big for Kenya
ICT hub will promote foreign investment and domestic growth, says Kenyan vice-president eyeing top job in March elections
New Africa: the Kenyan internet nerd reshaping a nation
BY: Ally Carnwath writing for the guardian.co.uk, Friday 24 August 2012. Juliana Rotich’s groundbreaking website Ushahidi has helped ordinary Africans take control of their lives Juliana Rotich chuckles down the line from Nairobi at the suggestion that she is one of the people helping to shape a new image of Africa. “Well, I’m a big nerd,” […]
Google ‘failed to comply’ on paid bloggers order: Alsup demands more
Judge from Oracle-Google trial says that search giant must provide more information about anyone who might have been paid indirectly to comment on trial