Phones offer smart route to development
The speed with which Africa has built telephony networks and embraced mobile has taught the rest of the world much about its potential
Google Reader closure provokes uproar
The search group’s news feed service will be axed in July as part of ‘spring cleaning’, a move that provoked online outrage among its fans
Intuit launches mobile payments app
Maker of QuickBooks software unveils device that can take chip and pin payments and is offering the service on a pay-per-transaction basis
Apple’s Cook to testify in ebooks case
Judge claims that chief executive’s ‘position and closeness’ to Steve Jobs leaves him in a unique position to be able to answer questions relating to ebook pricing
Google’s head of Android to take new role
Google announced on Wednesday that Andy Rubin would step down as its senior vice-president of mobile to take on an unspecified new role at the company
Atos’ ‘zero email initiative’ succeeding
Enterprise social networking platforms replace internal email