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Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has said its co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down in a shake-up. Mr Lazaridis, who founded RIM in 1984, will become vice chairman. Mr Balsillie will continue to sit on the board but not have any operational role. Chief operating officer Thorsten Heins will replace them [...]

Tanzania will be boosting the access of the internet and lowering the cost of connectivity in the country when it plans to fork out over $189 million on laying the national fibre optic network. The project will be jointly financed by China and Tanzania, while the Minister for Communication Science and Technology Professor Makame Mbarawa [...]

In a corner of a swanky mall in Mumbai is a “first” for India. A small shop by the escalators is home to India’s only “off-line” mobile phone application store, where you can buy mobile “apps” off the shelves. Mobile “apps” are functional programmes installed on phones and tablet devices, and range from games such [...]

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has resolved to take an online computer coding course. The mayor is joining more than 180,000 people currently taking part in Code Year, a campaign to encourage more people to program. “My New Year’s resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012!” he wrote on Twitter. Participants in [...]

According to a recent Bloomberg Businessweek report, Tanzania telecommunications companies are currently working with the government in order to begin paying fees in shillings, which, according to Vodacom Group Ltd., will offset the currency volatility and ensure investment. In an interview with Businessweek, Rene Meza, the managing director of Vodacom Tanzania, explained that East Africa’s [...]

The eagerly anticipated Raspberry Pi home computer is about to go into production. The $25 (£16) machine is being created in the hope that it will inspire a new generation of technology whizz kids. The Pi uses an Arm chip similar to that found in mobile phones and is intended to run a version of [...]

Microsoft has announced the release of 14 bulletins, addressing 20 vulnerabilities, three classed as critical, for December’s Patch Tuesday. The critical bulletins address security issues in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and 2008 and will include a fix for the Duqu bot that attacks a vulnerability in the Windows kernel. The remaining eleven [...]

The code behind the mobile operating system, WebOS, is being released to open source software developers by Hewlett Packard. The tech company acquired the software when it bought the smartphone maker Palm for $1.2bn (£767m) last year. HP used the code to power its short-lived range Touchpad tablet computers before it abandoned the product line. [...]

Andy Woodham is enjoying an enviable retirement. Aged 60 he and his wife like to travel as much as possible. In the mean time their home is left empty – which in the winter could mean burst pipes, and an insurance nightmare to return home to. Not exactly the après ski experience they look forward [...]

Each day, billions of pictures and videos are shared between strangers on websites like Facebook, Google+ and YouTube. But individuals are now also sharing physical possessions through the web, as part of a movement called collaborative consumption. “It’s all driven by this desire to get more use out of the assets that we already have [...]