Development

An Apple hybrid MacBook is an enticing idea. Should the company try to pull it off? Windows 8 hybrids are out in force. Should Apple join the fray or just stay away? An Apple patent, which came to light this week, proposes a convertible laptop featuring — in certain configurations — a touch-capable detachable display and a [...]

Apple has reached patent licensing agreements with Access Co., the Japanese company that owns some patents related to the Palm operating system, as well as Bell Communications Research and Geoworks. Apple may once have called Palm’s patents essentially worthless, but it doesn’t seem to think that anymore.   The company reportedly spent 1 billion yen, [...]

The page was taken down yesterday, after reports of an exploit that could let hackers with a user’s e-mail address and birth date change the user’s Apple ID password. The company has fixed the issue.   Apple has fixed the security issue involving its Apple ID password-reset page, a vulnerability that had made it possible for hackers [...]

In a ruling that reverses his earlier decision, a U.S. International Trade Commission judge says Microsoft did not infringe a patent owned by Google unit Motorola. A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has decided that Microsoft’s Xbox doesn’t infringe on a patent held by Motorola Mobility, reversing his original decision. Judge David Shaw filed his findings today,Bloomberg reported. [...]

Take a Windows 8 tablet. Add Nvidia graphics. Add a snap-on controller. Add a TV-friendly dock. Suddenly, what was a gaming PC in theory can become a console; suddenly, a tablet becomes a gaming handheld. This is the promise that the Razer Edge provides: a Surface for the gaming set, if you will. It’s a [...]

After using BlackBerry phones for years before switching to an iPhone, I was intrigued to see whether the Z10 could tempt me back. But glitches and a lack of apps left me cold. My story begins back in the spring of 2010, when I first became a BlackBerry user. Two years and four BlackBerrys later, [...]

REUTERS – BlackBerry inventors Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin are pairing again to launch a $100 million fund to incubate and commercialize quantum science technologies capable of spearheading the next wave of computing. Lazaridis, who stepped down as co-CEO of BlackBerry (BB.TO) (BBRY.O) in January, 2012, is known for his passion for physics. Last year, [...]

While the government of Rwanda has put its major focus on eliminating poverty through job creation and supporting innovative minds, Fidele Mahoro, 38, is one of the ICT graduates who have responded positively to this call. As a student of ICT at the Kigali Institute of Technology (KIST), Mahoro graduated in 2012, and developed a [...]

The Government of Rwanda has invested heavily in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Since inception of the first national ICT strategy and plan in 2000, Rwanda has registered a number of milestones that has significantly transformed the way the Rwandan business and society uses technology. It is in this context that the Ministry of Youth [...]

The Government of Rwanda has established institutions and mechanisms to create an enabling environment for ICT development, since 2000 and deployed critical world-class infrastructure and is continuously developing a skilled human resource base in its mission to become a knowledge-based society and regional ICT center. Today, the existence of a conducing legal and regulatory framework, [...]