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Glo Mobile soft launches in Ghana

19 January 2012 ~ 796 views

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Glo Mobile soft launches in Ghana

After several false starts, Glo Mobile Ghana appears to have taken its most remarkable step yet, towards a commercial launch. The cellular network obtained its operating licence since 2008 but had failed to launch its service to the public, citing logistical difficulties. Its last false start was 17th November 2011. A much-publicized commercial launch slated [...]

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GOtv Africa. A new digital pay TV service.

16 January 2012 ~ 320 views

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GOtv Africa. A new digital pay TV service.

I noticed multitudes of GOtv Africa banners and balloons in the ancient city of Ibadan Nigeria in the last quarter of 2011. The similarity with the name/logo of DStv was clear. Promotional drives were ongoing at different vantage points in Ibadan. GOtv is a new digital terrestrial TV (DTT) service by Multichoice Africa, operators of [...]

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Toshiba shines with world’s thinnest tablet at CES 2012

13 January 2012 ~ 130 views

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Toshiba shines with world’s thinnest tablet at CES 2012

The 2012 edition of Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas USA did not disappoint. Being the biggest platform for tech companies to show-off their latest innovations, a lot of new tablets (mostly running the Android OS) were among the announced. I have followed the news reports and one tablet that stood-out of the crowd was [...]

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Harnessing the full power of WordPress for multimedia publishing – WordCamp CT 2011

9 October 2011 ~ 391 views

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Harnessing the full power of WordPress for multimedia publishing – WordCamp CT 2011

My summary of WordCamp Cape Town 2011. This post includes a video of my presentation, titled: Harnessing the full power of WordPress for multimedia publishing.

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Have smartphones become indispensable business tools?

17 September 2011 ~ 488 views

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Have smartphones become indispensable business tools?

…You can thus understand how frustrating it has been in the past 10 days that I have been without the full benefits of my BlackBerry smartphone. Most personal emails remain unread, I’m struggling with a piling workload, over 150 comments are pending moderation on my personal blog alone, I’m out of touch with friends I normally chat with regularly.

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Help famine victims in East Africa

21 July 2011 ~ 433 views

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Help famine victims in East Africa

Jerry Rawlings, the African Union envoy to Somalia, makes a plea to international governments to put aside their prejudices and help the horn of Africa.

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BB OS 6 on your BlackBerry 9700 (follow-up)

17 July 2011 ~ 2,905 views

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BB OS 6 on your BlackBerry 9700 (follow-up)

Research in Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry smartphones, released the current version of their operating system (OS 6) along with the BlackBerry Torch smartphone. They later released official versions of OS 6 for some of their earlier smartphones: BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700, BlackBerry® Pearl™ 9105 and BlackBerry® Curve™ 9300. I blogged about running OS6 on BlackBerry 9700 and [...]

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Esoko Ltd: Powering an agric revolution

8 July 2011 ~ 626 views

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Esoko Ltd: Powering an agric revolution

Esoko was founded in 2005 as TradeNet by Mark Davies, who also founded BusyInternet years ago. TradeNet was rebranded as Esoko in April 2009 and its investors are: Jim Forster, the International Finance Corporation, and the Soros Economic Development Fund.

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The rebirth of Ghana’s .gh domain name system

3 July 2011 ~ 550 views

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The rebirth of Ghana’s .gh domain name system

.gh is the country code Top-Level Domain name (cc-TLD) for the Republic of Ghana. Introduced in 1995, it is currently managed by a private company in Accra Ghana. This company sponsored the .gh domain with ICANN (the international body for managing domains) and currently serves as the registry and registrar, simultaneously. Although .gh is intended [...]

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Google Plus, a new social networking website

30 June 2011 ~ 35,807 views

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Google Plus, a new social networking website

Google Plus is Google’s latest and best attempt at a social networking website. It obviously draws a lot of lessons from Google’s previous attempts like Google Buzz, Google Wave, Orkut etc. I got an invitation to join Google Plus from a good friend, and I am loving it so far. It comes with a lot [...]

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Effective Blogging: HOW to make your blog mobile-friendly

26 June 2011 ~ 526 views

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Effective Blogging: HOW to make your blog mobile-friendly

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. In an earlier post in the Effective Blogging series, I made a case for why every blogger should have a mobile-friendly version of their blog. In this post, I would be highlighting how to make your blog [...]

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Interview: Gregory Eid Of TeleData ICT speaks about Internet Connectivity in Ghana

25 June 2011 ~ 505 views

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Interview: Gregory Eid Of TeleData ICT speaks about Internet Connectivity in Ghana

Gregory Eid is the Managing Director of TeleData ICT, a leading Internet Service Provider in Ghana, targeted at individuals, cyber cafes and SMEs. In this interview, he spoke frankly to Russell Southwood of Balancing Act about some aspects of the operations of TeleData ICT, challenges of offering internet connectivity in Ghana and the network upgrade [...]

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Esoko Tech Showcase. The BackStory.

24 June 2011 ~ 511 views

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Esoko Tech Showcase. The BackStory.

I was invited to cover the Tech Showcase of Esoko’s 3rd Annual Partner Conference. The Tech Showcase was a segment of the larger partners’ gathering. Esoko Partners are their international clients who have paid to use Esoko software in their respective countries. I was able to gather information that I would be sharing in the [...]

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Effective Blogging: Why Your Blog Should Be Mobile-Friendly

19 June 2011 ~ 257 views

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Effective Blogging: Why Your Blog Should Be Mobile-Friendly

This blog post is part of a series of blog posts focused on how to blog more effectively. The Internet has evolved to a point where web access is no longer an exclusive preserve of desktop or laptop computers. A new demography has matured over the years and has since reached a critical mass that [...]

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ICTWorks Interview: Oluniyi on ICT4Dev, E-Commerce, Mobile Phones, Web Hosting in Africa

13 June 2011 ~ 267 views

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I granted the following video interview to ICTWorks.org in January 2011, and spoke about ICT for development, mobile communications, e-commerce, web hosting in Africa. Enjoy.

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