Have you registered?

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Since the commencement of the national biometric registration, the commonest question being asked by any concerned citizen of the republic of Ghana when met is, have you registered? This could either be on the walkway, at various work places, on university campuses and even after a religious activity.

Imagine the WWW was turned off!

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.

Have you grabbed your new NOKIA yet?

Nokia has showcased the first two smartphones in its Windows Phone-based Nokia Lumia range as well as four other models for developing markets like Ghana.

The Ghanaian Akasanoma PCTV and KPad

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Kludjeson International Limited (KIL), the company that started Celtel, which became Kasapa Telecom (now Expresso) has introduced two innovative products unto the technology market through one of its subsidiaries called Alltel Limited.

The 6 biggest technology flops of 2011

In 2011, technology gifted the masses with the magic of the cloud and 4G as far as the eye can see, but the year wasn’t without its disappointments. In fact, this year’s tech climate bore witness to some failures of truly epic proportion: From launch letdowns to billion dollar bungles, here are our picks for the biggest technology fails of 2011.

Sweet Autos for 2012 – Which Tops?

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If Car of the Year juries were seated like criminal trial juries, Volkswagen‘s lawyers might have used up their peremptory challenges dismissing the lot of us. They’d claim we had been poisoned by the launch coverage of the company’s supersized Yank-tank B7-generation Passat. Harsh auto-show lighting made the car look like a freshened version of Chevy’s little-loved Impala; early punditry slammed the interior as drab, plain, and cheap-looking; and news that the moaning I-5 we loathe in the Golf-class cars would be the mainstream engine seemed like strike three. Making things worse were VW’s concurrently announced plans for world domination, which, combined with the above impressions, seemed to suggest that VW was saying “Vee unterschtand zat to sell lots of zees cahs to you fat Dummkopfs, zay need to be bland like Camry.”

Only one Composting Plant for the whole of Ghana?

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On the last day of his three-day working tour of the Greater Accra Region, the President of Ghana, His Excellency Prof John Evans Atta-Mills put a smile on the faces of some Ghanaians when he inspected the modern’ composting plant. For environmentalists like me and ICTPost, we have always held a strong view that the lack of application of technology was not the way to go. It is environmentally unacceptable also goes against the tenets of sustainable development.

A “Job” Well Done – Steve Jobs, we’ll miss you!

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For the passing of a man who taught the world what Technology can do and placed it in the hands of many who least appreciated it. This great transformer has done a Job well done! Steve Jobs, We’ll miss you!

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