Lets face it, in Nigeria only two messaging platforms are worth considering - Blackberry's BBM and Whatsapp. And of these two, Whatsapp is probably more widespread though not necessarily more actively used. The reason for this is very simple. Apart from the fact that Whatsapp is cross platform, subscribing to this messaging service and acquiring…

As a server OS, Linux has long been highly successful and a poster child for open source. For example, Linux currently powers a majority of the world’s web servers and supercomputers. As a desktop OS, however, Linux has yet to gain mainstream acceptance. That said, there are some countries where people have embraced Linux on…