After the Safaricom launch in Kenya, what next for 5G in Africa?
Commercial 5G networks have been rolled out in Kenya and South Africa and are being tested elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, but wide deployment appears to be a few years away. Enterprise systems such as IoT are likely to be on the vanguard of initial applications The real-time hologram presentation with two Safaricom employees in Kisumu at the end of March was meant to be a precursor to what 5G would bring in Kenya, and throughout Africa – hyperfast mobile transmission…
27-year-old female ex-banker raises 1 million dollars for her tech startup
To the surprise of the cryptocurrency world, AFEN, the first government-backed NFT initiative, held one of the quickest public sales in the crypto space on April 20th, 2021. Raising over a million dollars in her token’s sales round. Deborah Ojengbede, Chief Executive Officer of the AFEN group and a former banker, is in charge of the NFT initiative. The 27-year-old CEO resigned from her job as a business analyst at a top Nigerian bank, where she had worked for the…
Side by side, Apple continues to make superior Windows PCs
One tester found that Windows for ARM running on an M1 Mac via Parallels Desktop was the “fastest version of Windows” they’d ever used. You know things have changed when one of the fastest ways to run Windows is to run it using Parallels Desktop on an M1 Mac and Microsoft brings in Apple Silicon support for its own Remote Desktop application. The fastest Windows PC? Get a Mac Parallels now offer native Apple Silicon support in Parallels Desktop 16. As anticipated, this extends to various…
Google Releases New Killer Google Maps Feature for More Users
The driving mode pretty much turns Google Maps into a hub for the experience behind the wheel, obviously with the navigation app the core of everything. Google Maps pretty much becomes an alternative to Android Auto for phones, with the interface clearly inspired from this app, while the feature lineup includes pretty much the same capabilities. Google Maps driving mode allows you to make calls, control the music playback, and read your messages from just one place, all while also…
Project management methodologies: Opting for the best
Every project — and project team — is different, and to ensure success, the project management methodology (PMM) chosen to steer each project to completion should match not just the project and team’s needs, but also those of the project’s stakeholders and the organization at large. The right project management methodology will establish guiding principles and processes that define how teams work and communicate throughout all stages of project execution. Without an appropriate methodology, it can be difficult for team…
Google Drive: your tool for collaboration
Sharing Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files makes it easy to collaborate with colleagues on documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Here’s how. You may think of Google Drive mostly as a cloud storage service, but it also includes a suite of online office apps: Google Docs (word processor), Google Sheets (spreadsheet app), and Google Slides (presentation app). You can use them to collaborate with colleagues on a document, spreadsheet, or presentation in real time or asynchronously. These apps can also be…
Windows 10: Your Remote Desktop Options Discussed
Ever need to access a computer remotely? It’s easy to do in Windows 10, but Microsoft has provided a few different ways to get there. One is the old, familiar Terminal Server-based Remote Desktop Connection (RDC), also known as MSTSC for its executable name mstsc.exe. Another is the newer Remote Desktop, a Universal Windows Platform app that Microsoft calls URDC, with package name Microsoft.RemoteDesktop_10.2.1535.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe. Figure 1 shows these two remote desktop clients side-by-side on a current Windows 10 desktop. On the…
Windows 10X: All you need to know
There’s a good chance you’ve heard about Windows 10X, the new version of Windows that’s about to be released. And if you have, there’s a reasonable chance you’re confused about what exactly it is. You’re not alone. Microsoft has released confusing, sometimes clashing information about the new operating system. We’re here to help. Read on for everything you need to know about the upcoming Windows 10 variant. What is Windows 10X? Is it the successor to Windows 10? Windows 10X resembles Windows…
