If you cast your mind back a few years you’d remember whole batches of small IT start-ups developing and marketing bunches of IT-based tools and diagnostics utilities. Looking back now some of these seem a little silly – a utility to compress data or defrag your system, another to help undelete files, others to search … Continue reading Time for specialisation?
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Battle at the bottom of the pyramid
You can imagine the headlines. “Western giants battle over the hearts, minds (and ultimately the wallets?) of Africa’s rural poor” I’m talking about the battle going on right under our noses between MIT and Microsoft, or Nicholas Negroponte and Bill Gates, or the $100 laptop and a Windows/mobile device (as yet unnamed since it’s not … Continue reading Battle at the bottom of the pyramid