Hardware Systems

RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, wants the company to improve its product development while also becoming better at marketing, he said during a conference call on Monday.  read more »

IBM today said it has signed IT service agreements with five African banks that are upgrading core systems or expanding products.  read more »

Hewlett-Packard (HP), has partnered with Chase Bank, Nairobi for a converged hardware infrastructure to accommodate its new software platform that runs core banking operations. The hardware solution is based on modules which will enable the bank grow at its on pace to achieve business agility.  read more »

New research suggests the Kindle Fire could chomp into over a quarter of the iPad's sales -- an impressive feat, considering Apple's iPad currently has 67 percent dominance over the tablet market.  read more »

While several African countries are battling to block the entry of counterfeit mobile phones and other electronic products from China, Zambia has abandoned the implementation of a pre-export verification system that was aimed at blocking the products from entering Zambia.  read more »

Royal Mail has donated 3,000 PCs and laptops to charity Computer Aid International to be used in Africa and Latin America.  read more »

Intel on Thursday showed an experimental low-power processor the size of a postage stamp that could run PCs on solar power.  read more »

An IT services company in China has picked an IBM mainframe to provide online services for up to 300 million citizens, including many in rural areas who will access the services through kiosks in community centers and other public places, IBM said.  read more »

Samsung Electronics has launched a smartphone, two tablets and a netbook in Africa.  read more »

Are we living in a "post-PC" world? Steve Jobs thinks so, and he often refers to the iPad as a "post-PC" device. Now an IBM executive has added fuel to the fire--its Chief Technology Officer for the Middle East and Africa region, Mark Dean, says the company did the right think in getting out of the PC business.  read more »