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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Summary:Lenovo will also have to figure out how to differentiate the A6000 from the hugely successful Motorola brand of phones that it also owns. Lenovo has made its intentions very clear: It wants to dominate the Indian smartphone market, and it wants to do so fast. This Chinese computer maker […]

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The tech industry is doing its best to topple the Tower of Babel. Last month, Skype, Microsoft’s video calling service, initiated simultaneous translation between English and Spanish speakers. Not to be outdone, Google will soon announce updates to its translation app for phones. Google Translate now offers written translation of

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork LAS VEGAS — ZTE and Alcatel OneTouch have a lot in common. Both companies will be coming on strong in the US as they fight to capture your attention. They won’t find it easy going. They both focus on selling affordable smartphones. They concentrate on prepaid customers. They’re both growing

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Nest owners will now be able to adjust their thermostats with simple, spoken commands. After buying Nest Labs for $3.2 billion back in January, it was only a matter of time before Google introduced deeper integration with the popular smart thermostat. Now, nearly a year later, Nest owners will be

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A machine that administers sedatives recently began treating patients at a Seattle hospital. At a Silicon Valley hotel, abellhop robot delivers items to people’s rooms. Last spring, a software algorithm wrote a breaking news article about an earthquake that The Los Angeles Times published. Although fears that technology will displace

Follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork HONG KONG — In China, the smartphone battle used to be Samsung versus Apple. But not anymore. Over the summer, a Chinese company, Xiaomi, took the No. 1 position in China’s competitive market and became the world’s third-largest phone maker in the process. Founded in 2010 as a lean start-up