Another Story that I wrote for Hana: Things have progressed since the $100 laptop prototype was first publicly unveiled at a press conference with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte at last year’s second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. What was then just a garish [...]

Findings of a study conducted by Arthur Goldstruck and Kirsty Laschinger on “PC Users in South Africa 2006″ appeared on Fin24 this morning. The conclusion is that for the first time, the number of personal computers in SA will surpass the 5-million mark this year, which is quite a milestone, yet still a far cry [...]

Second to only the Windows Vista debate, a lot has been said recently about the pending release of the Sony Playstation 3 and it’s estimated opening price-tag of $500 for the basic 20Gb model. Nintendo (Wii) and Microsoft (Xbox 360) have already proven to be thorns in the side of the highly anticipated PS3, not [...]

iRex Technologies, a spin-off of consumer electronic giant Philips, have announced that they will be releasing their first generation electronic reader known as the iLiad later this month. The blurb on the website describes the product like this: Digital written content can now be read as easily and conveniently as the printed word on paper. [...]