Wednesday 12 February 2014

Can Apple Still Prevail in Smartphones?

Apple released its very first iPhone back in 2007. It is well known that this was the smartphone that changed the whole game. Three years later, the winning tablet, the iPad, was unveiled before our eyes. It fair to say that Apple revolutionized the smartphone and indeed, the mobile industry. There are reports that Google had to redesign their Android prototype (which resembled a QWERTY blackberry) after they saw the first iPhone. Okay! but with all that, the question to ponder is this: will that reign last much longer?

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Towards a Better Internet in Africa

The lack of fast, affordable and accessible internet is a problem facing most of Africa. One of the main reasons for this is the widespread lack of dependable power supply that plagues most African countries. This in turn raises the cost of operations for the internet service providers. A bit of a catch-22. But the lack of internet has far reaching negative implications.