Students at Rwanda’s Africa Digital Media Academy (ADMA) have been urged to double their efforts in using ICT for development. The call was made by the Minister for Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana on Monday while presenting to the academy the global coveted award it won recently from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The [...]

An administrative law judge decides that a man leasing a condo broke New York’s laws after he rented out part of his home on Airbnb. New York officials have determined that a man who rented out part of his apartment on Airbnb should pay $2,400 for violating the city’s illegal hotel law, despite Airbnb stepping [...]

In a new Pew Report on teens and their social-networking habits, Twitter appears to be offering a resurgence, while Facebook may be losing impact. Because Facebook is just, well, too much. When your hormones are harassing you to within an eyebrow-width of your sanity, all you want is a simple life. You want to be [...]

The next-generation gaming console from the software giant is about much more than gaming. It should help Microsoft realize its vision of being at the center of consumer computing. REDMOND, Wash. — Perhaps the most telling detail of Microsoft’s media event to unveil the new Xbox One was the fact that the company didn’t even [...]

Microsoft is bound to play up the non-gaming entertainment features of the new console, focusing on streaming video, Skype calling, and deeper integration with other devices and services. Much has changed in the video game landscape since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360 in 2005. Back then, Microsoft was a clear underdog, hoping to cut into [...]

More customers are satisfied with Apple’s phones than any other handsets, but they’re not as happy as they were last year, a new report said. According to an American Customer Satisfaction Index report issued today, Apple received a score of 81 (on a scale of 100) in terms of customer satisfaction. But the company dropped [...]

A senate panel releases a lengthy report detailing how the tech company used offshore corporate structures to avoid paying billions in U.S. taxes. On the eve of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s hearing in front of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the subcommittee released a report Monday detailing how it believes the tech giant has [...]

The inventor of Bitcoin has been shrouded in a mystery so complete, it’s baffled even core developers for the virtual currency. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or group of people who came up with the original idea for the electronic cash system in 2008? After contributing thousands of lines of code [...]

Life becomes more meaningful when someone from a long way away reflects your own thoughts. It makes you feel less alone, less forlorn on your island of one. I was, therefore, lifted to heights previously unimagined on hearing that the head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has declared that Twitter is an appalling waste of [...]

At last week’s I/O conference, Google’s Larry Page didn’t speak like a CEO. He spoke like a politician. Congress is a dog that won’t go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant “no.” It’s not a [...]