Right now, the energy industry in sub-Saharan Africa is at a crossroads. Faced with booming demand from a growing industrial sector, urbanisation and an impatient consumer base, the region’s energy utilities must deal with a unique set of challenges that can ultimately drive away both local and foreign investment and affect entire economies if they are not overcome.We’re all too familiar with some of these challenges: ageing infrastructure that breaks down at inconvenient times; the need to optimise assets; the ...

Change is coming... again. Yes, Facebook is getting more aggressive in its mobile strategy -- by making sure you have to download its standalone Messenger app if you want to talk to your friends on your phone.In an effort to slim down the many functions of its main mobile app, the social media giant is stripping the messaging function out and requiring that users install the companion app. At present, messaging is one of the options in the official ...

When it comes to the software business Microsoft is pretty much untouchable, this according to the latest Gartner report on worldwide software revenue in 2013According to the tech research and advisory company, the worldwide software revenue totaled just over US$407-billion in 2013, a 4.8 per cent increase from 2012 revenue of US$388.5 billion. Developed markets saw significant growth in the past year offsetting the relative sluggishness in emerging markets. According to the report, the software industry is in the ...

If there is one thing the internet has excelled at, it's pointing out the absurdity of human behaviour — and then making fun of it. The latest craze of cyber-shaming comes in the form of Tinder profile scrutiny.A Tumblr account launched in February showcases Tinder profile pictures of misguided hipsters posing with the various persons they've helped abroad. Aptly named Humanitarians of Tinder (hilariously abbreviated to HoT), the blog has garnered some internet attention lately — and rightly so. ...

A heart-wrenching photo of a Syrian orphan appears in your Facebook News Feed, having been shared by one of your friends. The status update challenges you to like and share as a show of support and love for this child who feels unloved. With 1-million likes then that child will finally know that he or she is cherished. Are you in or are you out? We’ve all encountered that moment and we’ve all clicked like.Remember the old saying that ‘if ...

A billion people on Facebook translate to a billion reasons for businesses to be there. Any business – big or small – now finds the need to be on Facebook and tap into the ever-increasing appeal Facebook has for businesses.Now, Facebook might not be everyone’s favorite. Yet, it has potential. It has user base, and it allows myriad applications and tools to interact with it. Friends trust friends and Facebook goes a long way to help translate that fact into ...

Since I got my GoPro Hero in 2010, Nick Woodman, the founder of GoPro became a billionaire and the camera has had a few mild updates to keep it in tune with modern film requirements (most noticeably, 4K recording in some models). Yet recently I got to play around with the GoPro Hero 3+ Silver Edition (US$299), I even recorded a video of my expeditions.http://youtu.be/E3pRmbIO0goIf you should decide to get one, there are eight questions you should ask yourself first:Read ...

There have been plenty of beautiful cars over the years, from the early efforts of pioneering coachbuilders that would go on to become household names, through to the Jaguar E Type and the Alfa 8C.A lot of the value of older, beautiful cars meanwhile, derives from their scarcity. In some cases, that's because we didn't realise how important they were when we built them, in others it's because they were only released in relatively small numbers in the first ...

If you have a friend who's seriously into online security, you may well have seen them talking about something called "Heartbleed" over the past day or so. Alternatively you might've seen it mentioned on XKCD today. Unless you are that friend who's obsessed with online security though, chances are you were probably left wondering exactly what they were on about.In short, Heartbleed is a bug that allows anyone on the internet to read the memory from any site protected ...

When India last held a general election in 2009, the country had fewer than 50-million internet users – a mere four percent of the population at the time. But as voting begins this week in India’s newest general election – a marathon that runs through to the counting of the votes on May 16 – things have changed. And that means, as the country now grows closer to a quarter of a billion web users, the way people access the ...