All the stories tagged with africa
Philips blazes Nairobi streets with solar LED lights
08/10/2012, Dutch multinational electronics company, Philips, has partnered with the Kenyan Urban Roads Authority to install solar-powered LED street lighting in Nairobi. Philips says that, if implemented on a wide scale across the country, the project has the potential to generate [...]
Researchers manage to shrink 3G phones’ power consumption
11/30/2011, While the battery drain on 3G phones isn’t as severe as it is compared to 4G LTE capable devices, it still consumes a fair amount of power that usually causes heavy users to run out of juice by the end [...]
Blackberry services down in Europe, Middle East, Africa
10/10/2011, Heads up Blackberry users in the Europe, Middle East and Africa, it looks like RIM is facing some technical issues which might be able to explain why you are having issues accessing certain features on your phones. This seems to [...]
Movirtu and U.N team up to bring cloud mobile numbers to 3 million poor people
08/05/2011, While most of us are fortunate enough to own several gadgets, there are some people out there in the world who do not even own a phone, let alone a tablet or smartphone, and Africa is such a region. Thanks [...]
Mobius One is an inexpensive SUV aimed at rural Africa
07/19/2011, In developing countries such as Africa, roads are expensive to upkeep and the costs are then passed on to the general population. It is said that those costs will cause consumers to pay 75% more for their daily goods in [...]
Slimtrader Lets Africans Shop Via Text
06/16/2011, It’s good to know that in our fast growing tech world that developing countries are not entirely left out of the equation. There are some countries where the residents are too poor to afford computers and internet access, let alone [...]
Solafrica Brings Solar Soccer To Africa
06/16/2010, Despite the fact that the current World Cup is being held in South Africa, there are a great many folks over there who won’t be able to catch the matches, due to the inability to purchase a ticket or maybe [...]
Kayak.com Co-founder Plans To Cover Africa With Free Wi-Fi
05/13/2010, The co-founder of travel search engine Kayak.com, Paul English, has a pretty lofty dream, and that’s to cover Africa with free public Wi-Fi. To make the challenge even harder, he wants it to be self-sustaining. He’ll be using the wealth [...]
Special Edition Monster Beats Headphones Support Charity
05/10/2010, You’ve probably checked out the Monster Beats headphones by Dr. Dre before, and now Dr. Dre, Lady Gaga and Product RED have come up with a special edition of the Beats Solo HD Headphones. Aside from its obvious red color [...]
Communication For Rural Africa Concept Phone Design
04/23/2010, Getting a cell phone to work long term in a rural area is never an easy task, especially if your closest source of electricity is miles away. Industrial designer Andrew Williams is looking to try and tackle this issue with [...]
