Industrialisation must be green

Industrialisation must be green

The economic and environmental benefits stemming from greening Africa’s industrialisation make the environmental approach the only viable option for the continent’s continued development, argues the latest Economic Report on Africa, titled “Greening...

What it costs Apple to build the iPhone SE

A preliminary estimate by IHS and its Teardown and Cost Benchmarking Service shows that the iPhone SE smartphone costs about $160 to build. The US version of an entry-level iPhone SE with 16Gb of NAND memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $156.20, which rises to...

All systems go for virtualization, cloud

Virtualisation and cloud computing are finally becoming a reality, with a new study indicating that adoption is increasing, together with faster deployment and greater tangible benefits. But there are mixed feelings about how secure these systems will prove to be....

Cell C joins fibre to the home fray

Cell C’s commercial offerings of its fibre-to-the-home service, C-Fibre, are available to customers immediately. The company has partnered with open access fibre network operator, Vumatel to bring competitive uncapped fibre offerings to customers in the Vumatel...

April Fool’s joke backfires for Notebook Co

An April Fool’s joke turned sour for The Notebook Company when some suppliers failed to see the humour in a spoof liquidation notice. On Friday, 1 April 2016 The Notebook Company CEO, Christopher Riley, informed all its local suppliers that the company hasdbeen...

Orange buys into African Internet Group

Africa Internet Group, the largest e-commerce platform in Africa and parent company of Jumia, has partnered with telecommunications company Orange to accelerate the growth of the company and seize development opportunities on the continent. In line with the...