Enterprise

With multiple phone manufacturers battling to obtain or maintain a market share in the African smartphone market, many don't know what to consider when making a smartphone for Africa.  They claim to make phones for the global market ignoring the uniqueness of the African markets... Read More

Genius is when a product maintains its relevance on the market even after decades of little or no iteration. I still marvel at Tupac Shakur's 1997 hit track, Changes. It clearly talks about how change will take it's course on us whether we want it... Read More

Email has weathered all sorts of Technological disruptions of our time  such as social media and all recent trends indicate that this form of communication, which itself was a radical disruption to postal Mail, is not about to die soon especially in the Enterprise sector.... Read More

Often, legal firms are plunged with overwhelming loads of backlog to clear. But, because of the time constraints involved, lawyers and clients get frustrated. On one hand, there are paid-for legal professions who owe duty of skill and care to time-sensitive clients and on the other... Read More

I am a big fan of the Mobile Money service and I use it quite often.  Since 2009 when MTN launched its service in Uganda, Mobile money has changed the lives of many people and businesses. It is roughly 5 years since the first Mobile... Read More

Al Jazeera employed both voice and SMS technologies to aid its extensive coverage and citizen reporting of the Kenyan elections. Kenya is known for its high mobile phone penetration, as well as related innovations like M-PESA (mobile money) and Ushahidi, a crisis-mapping tool that had its... Read More

Cloud computing today has graduated from being a marketing buzz-word to a reality so much so that now ordinary users use the Technology without even knowing it.  Technologies or cloud services like iCloud, Google drive, Skydrive, Office365, Ubuntu one, Dropbox, App stores among others use... Read More

Last year, 2011, was an epic year for the Ugandan innovation space as we saw the Kiira EV -- the first electric in whole East and Central African region by Makerere University (MUK) students test the road for the first time. However, we still don't... Read More

Uganda loses $177m per year due to poor sanitation according to the Independent magazine and this is one of the reason why an army of Tech developers, Tech enthusiasts, corperations and a government authority have braced themselves for a 48 hour hackathon here at Smile... Read More