Startups Heart of Smartness: A Tech Accelerator for Africa Africa has most of the elements required for technology innovation. What it doesn’t have is a startup culture where smart young entrepreneurs can grow their ideas into companies. So Mbwana Alliy is creating the Savannah Fund fund to help them. Small Biz Tim Devaney and Tom Stein View comments
Microsoft 5 Reasons Why Commercial Software Companies Care About Open Source and Linux When you think of Open Source software and Linux, you probably think of legions of independent developers and scruffy enthusiasts scattered across the globe - pounding out code and annihilating bugs with the words “Linux Forever” and a Penguin tattooed on their forearms. Sure, those people exist, but they’re being crowded out by serious IT… Enterprise Veronica Henry View comments
Microsoft Don’t Believe the Doomsayers: Microsoft’s Q4 Results Are Good News Despite notching its first-ever quarterly loss, Microsoft’s fourth-quarter results beat analyst expectations, giving the software giant some breathing room as it heads into a year of major change. Enterprise Brian Proffitt View comments
Web Culture Censoring YouTube Comments Cuts So Derp, It Herps The Herp Derp Web Extension is a browser plug-in that aims to make YouTube comments palatable by making them read “herp derp.” The world needs such a function, as conventional wisdom would have it, because YouTube comments are the scum of the Internet, a repository of "everything that is terrible about humanity." But is that a reason to… Fruzsina Eördögh View comments
mobile [Video] Drop Test: Apple iPad vs. Google Nexus 7 Smartphones and tablets are made out of metal, plastic and glass. The last thing you want to do is drop them. You have seen it before: the poor chap sitting next to you at the pub, trying to play Angry Birds on an iPad that has been cracked beyond recognition. It is a sickening feeling. These are expensive devices that people have emotional… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments