credit: Paul Busharizi and David Mugabe UGANDA has a fledging IT industry with top end training institutions churning thousands of graduates annually. Computer Warehouse Group, a Nigerian IT firm, officially opened its offices at the end of October. The group’s chief executive officer, Austin Okere, talks about the business. Q: What is Computer Warehouse Group [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Energy Commission (EC) with support from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) has developed a toolkit that would support renewable energy resources to analysis, planning and a policy formulation instrument. The toolkit utilises Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to evaluate potential locations for solar and wind energy, transportation infrastructure and population centres. In [...]
Read the rest of this story »by Nicholas Jackson Q: Growing tired of the Facebook privacy scandals, I tried to leave the social network, but you need to be a member now to access a number of outside websites. How can I get around this? A: Facebook, as you’re well aware by this point, has a history of privacy scandals. CEO [...]
Read the rest of this story »Andrew G. Rosen, Most of us rely on e-mail as one of our primary communication tools. And given the number of messages we send and receive, we do it with remarkable success. But as with anything, the more e-mails we send, the more likely we are to screw one up. And simple e-mail mistakes can [...]
Read the rest of this story »Frequent power outages at Adum-Kwanwoma, a fast-growing community near Kumasi, is now over, with the supply of three transformers to the town by the Energy Ministry. Nana Kofi Agyei IV, Chief of the Town, described the ministry’s intervention as a big relief since the people would now have uninterrupted electricity. “Besides, we would no longer [...]
Read the rest of this story »A study by anti-fraud firm MarkMonitor has offered a snapshot into the changing nature of online piracy. It monitored illegal traffic levels on 43 file-sharing sites and found that they generated more than 53 billion visits per year. The top three – RapidShare.com, Megavideo.com and Megaupload.com – generated more than 21 billion visits. Such sites [...]
Read the rest of this story »* Bill first wrote about digital money 15 years ago in his book “The Road Ahead”. These days, he’s excited about financial services being offered in Africa over mobile phones. They provide an easy, safe and affordable way for millions of poor people to send, receive and store money. When I visited Kenya last December [...]
Read the rest of this story »Against headphones One in five teenagers in America can’t hear rustles or whispers, according to a study published in August in The Journal of the American Medical Association. These teenagers exhibit what’s known as slight hearing loss, which means they often can’t make out consonants like T’s or K’s, or the plinking of raindrops. The [...]
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