The world is scrambling to recolonise Africa, this time wooing the continent with huge investments and promises of infrastructure upgrades.  There is a real anticipation that the African economy will provide a more than ample replacement for the losses incurred as a result of the recent international financial meltdown.  I have no doubt that Africa [...]

The new kid on the “hype” block is Cloud Computing.  I am told not to confuse Cloud and Grid Computing even though it’s not too difficult to bundle them as one concept. In effect what Cloud Computing attempts to do is remove complexity by abstraction.  This means that a user achieves a result without really [...]