Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards is a freelance technology writer.
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Africa struggles toward building a viable technological infrastructure
African countries with ambitions to find a place among the world's innovators certainly face big challenges, but there is no shortage of ideas from the continent's brightest minds.
Radar development and tracking technology go parallel
Radar and tracking technology continues to develop into new, innovative application areas, from UAV navigation to archaeological mapping.
Augmented reality peers out beyond Google's looking glass
Google's Glass project is synonymous with augmented reality, but the technology is already part of everyday life for many people.
Raspberry Pi: hobbyist hardware 'grows-up' for mainstream applications
As the Raspberry Pi celebrates its first birthday, designs intended for the hobbyist are getting mainstream attention from developers of 'grown up' applications.
'Data hunger' will cause 4G roll-out to feel the bite
Smartphones designed to exploit the emerging 4G networks are ravenous for data, and that's good news for service operators who need ways to maximise usage-based revenue models. But the transition from 3G to 4G is likely to throw up several contentious issues that will take time and effort to reconcile.
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