Ghana, a country south of the sahara has many budding entrepreneurs and is considered a lower middle income country with a sizable youthful population largely entrenpreneurial. Some of them who have been globally recognized include game changers, Bright Simons, and Elikem Kuenyehia. But, the field of entrepreneurship poses a lot of challenges for many Ghanaians charting its slippery road. Many face several hurdles and are not able to surmount and hence, fold up initiatives.   [...]

Bidi Kwame Emmanuel shares an experience on his latest trip to Ghana in a blog post.  We have his permission to link it as this problem is affecting progress in the continent.   Our country has more than its fair share of active believers. What it lacks are active thinkers and problem solvers.   A dangerous trend is beginning to take root in Ghana. It is the practice of doom prophecy, targeting the elites and the [...]

The Fight – Samsung Galaxy S3 v/s Sony Xperia Z Android fanatics are full of choices when it comes to top end Smartphones. An array of new launches keeps on raising the standard with technology getting more and more affordable. The problem is that it can get difficult to choose from the wide selection especially when it comes to Samsung Galaxy S3 and Sony Xperia Z. Which Android ruler will you go for? Samsung unveiled [...]

The recent versions of operating systems such as Windows XP, Vista, Windows 8 come with many utilities software. And among those we may also find an application to view pictures fast on the system. But as we may see, these image viewers tools only take care of the basics and are handicapped when we want to do some additional work. In this case the free image viewers downloads are of great help. First of all [...]

An extension of the Sony Xperia Neo series, the Sony Xperia Neo L is a mid-range Smartphone filled with multiple clever features. Like the Xperia Neos preceding it, the phone comes in a bar shape. The device is run on the sophisticated and futuristic Android v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS and possesses a dynamic 1 GHz Qualcomm Scorpion processor. A 512 MB RAM warrants its ability to smoothly run apps on the phone.   The [...]

Every electronic device that has ever been on the market was once a concept, no matter if it was successful or not. The people who develop these concepts have helped create groundbreaking inventions that have given us touch screen and 3D technology, but technology surely hasn’t stopped there. Many innovators continually come up with new designs and concepts or devices that could change the way we use technology. Some of their concept computer designs could [...]

The space Apple enjoys in the smartphones market is indeed, to use the cliché, a “neighbor’s’ envy and owner’s’ pride”. But this is a free market where only the fittest is destined to survive. Therefore to give Apple a run for its money and corner a notable share of the market Nokia has teamed up with Microsoft and has launched its Lumia series. A comparison between Apple iPhone 4S and Nokia Lumia 620 will not [...]

Consider the following scenarios:   Your car has been stolen. How do you track its location? You travel and realise you’ve left your lights on! How do you save energy – and money – by switching off the lights?   The answer to these, and many other similar ones, is embedded systems. For more on the applications of embedded systems, click here. Embedded systems are simply specialized computer systems that are part of larger systems [...]

Acumen Fund East Africa Fellows is currently accepting applications for the second class of Acumen Fund East Africa Fellows! They are looking for 20 passionate East African leaders who are committed to developing innovative solutions to address a variety of social problems affecting East Africa. Click here to apply now! To learn more about the program, visit our website

What is the usability of mobile devices? Mobile phones and smartphones are widely popular because of their portability. You carry your smartphone in every part on this earth. Now when you are travelling with your smartphones and Androids, there is high probability that you can lose it anytime. These mobile devices are not those cheap ugly phones losing which will not have any impact on you. Isn’t this is true?   Smartphones, nowadays, have become [...]