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I always knew that the Chinese always did it big in the technology field. This fact cannot be stretched enough as my fellow Chinese students at university dwarfed our second year electronic projects with walking robots and self manoeuvring vehicles as we were busy displaying stupid messages on 16×2 LCD screen –kids stuff, innit? Anyway thats besides the point.

How about this for triumph, just two Chinese ISPs serve 20% of world broadband users, yes thats right. The Telegeography updated its list of the worlds ISPs database and clearly shows how the Chinese have dwarfed about any other telecom company. China telecom is the largest ISP in the world, it has 55million subscribers. That’s right, it could serve the whole of Africa’s internet needs with surplus! It could connect every house hold in the UK and their systems would just be on less than 50% performance. The other big dog is China Unicom, with just 40 million. [ READ MORE ]

It is not like me to write on start ups especially online based. But I believe that this one deserves a mention. The creators are joining a small but fast growing group of young Kenyans keen to ride the technology train as the region experiences a boom in this sector. And as you expect, yours truly has not been left out. I am currently involved in a project called IMEASTAFRICAN. It is a small social networking site at first targeted toward East African students studying at the University of Leeds, as it turns out, the creator, Denis Bosire(owner 22rocks.com) decided to take it a step further and now wants to include all the East African students studying in the UK. Imeastafrican.com will play an important role in linking up students who are far away from home, if any international student is reading this, he/she will remember how hard it was at first to settle in. [ READ MORE ]

I finally got time away from my busy schedule and decided to jailbreak my iPhone 3GS and see what the fuss is all about. I really wanted to do this, not only because I would have the opportunity to have alot of free apps but also for the fun of it.

Unfortunately I had upgraded to the latest OS 4, and there is no stable jailbreak as far as I am concerned, so I had the huge task of finding out how to downgrade to os 3.1.3. Well, as you could have imagined, apple did not intend for you or me to go back to a previous operating system,so this process in its entirely is a hack! It is like making a deal with the devil, there is no way out!

Now, downgrading for me was perhaps the most hectic thing I did last weekend (trying to make lasagne came a close 2nd ) at one point during this operation I was convinced that I had bricked my phone and I had already started [ READ MORE ]

Dell has made its entry into the tablet market official today and we can now expect to see the 3G enabled smartphone and tablet in the UK as early as June and later this summer in the US.

Dell formally announced the device today on their official company blog. Boasting a 5 inch touch screen, the Streak will be almost half the size of Apple’s 9.7 inch iPad.

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Sounding more like a banned iPhone app than a tablet, the iPed is exactly what you’re probably thinking: a Chinese knockoff. Now available (!!!) in Shenzhen, China, the iPed is an Intel-driven, Android-based copycat packaged like an Apple product and, to be honest… it doesn’t look half bad. An Android device for ¥9,600 (£72)? Yes, please.

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