With regards to Africa, Ghana has been a “pioneer” in so many ways- from being the first African country to gain independence from colonial powers, to being the first African country south of the Sahara to host the “first” African-American president of the United States of America. Needless to say that Barack Obama visit to [...]

Microsoft unleashes Bing… it starts a chain reaction… everyone’s talking… they roll out millions in advertising /marketing funds… embark on mass media campaigns… now everyone’s hearing about Bing… more (and more) people actually begin “checking it out”. Okay, that’s basically where we are now. As with all other thing that hugely affects our lives, there [...]

Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You’ll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time. I remember reading [...]

The introduction of Bing to the search scene has generated “a lot of buzz” around the web. Actually, that is an understatement because Bing has only been publicly available for just a couple days, yet the ripple effect it’s creating is already assuming seismic proportions. Everyone seems to be catching the “Bing fever”. I recently [...]

Microsoft’s Live Search has just gone BING!! The Bing search engine, now publicly available at bing.com, is the latest roll out from Microsoft, and was unveiled by CEO Steve Ballmer at the D Conference on the 28th of May. : So what’s with the name Bing anyhow? Well, it’s all in the branding really.  Microsoft [...]

Social networking has changed the face of the web (and indeed everything else) in recent times, with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter spearheading the cause- redefining and giving new meaning to “socialization”. Social media provide an interactive platform to connect and share with your friends and loved ones, likewise a perfect opportunity to [...]

I have always heard gators were dangerous, but boy have I had fun playing with this one. (In case you haven’t already figured it out, that’s me up there) I first learnt about Gatorpeeps from Oluniyi David Ajao’s review of Bar Camp Nigeria 2009 (which I really should have attended but for the most inevitable [...]

Okay. I’m going to do something a bit unsual today. I’ve been in love with AJAX ever since I came across it two years ago, simply because (in my opinion) it makes the web more fun to play with. The D-tech Blog team unanimously decided to introduce a new category to the blog, exclusively dedicated [...]

At the beginning of the year I did a review on Global IT trends for 2009, and in that review I highlighted the growth of social media in 2008, drawing support from Chris Crum’s article on “the year in social media: 2008“. I also echoed the Baseline Mag’s prediction on the expected growth of Social [...]

: Mobile telecommunications giant- MTN has announced the launch of its 3.5 G service in Ghana. The service, which uses high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology, was announced at an impressive ceremony at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons in Accra. Speaking at the launching themed “Go Beyond, Experience our better life today”, [...]