The ICT sector, albeit a nascent industry a few years ago, is now the third pillar of the Mauritian economy with a GDP contribution nearing 6.8%, a turnover of $1 billion and directly employing more than 16,000 people with flow-on benefits for many more. Acknowledging the proven capacity of ICT to become an even more [...]
ICT access according to latest figures issued by Mauritius Statistics has greatly improved. Between 2010 and 2011, ICT access has increased in numerous services Rises have been noted in the number of mobile cellular phone subscriptions per 100 inhabitants from 92.8 to 100.4; in the number of internet subscriptions per 100 inhabitants from 22.1 to [...]
From Hotmail.com to Outlook.com  Hundred of users have been using hotmail which hasn’t changed much in years. Hotmail launched in 1996 as one of the first free, advertising-supported Web email services. At the beginning of 1998, Microsoft announced it bought Hotmail and has operated it since. Microsoft’s goal is to update the product by [...]
Nokia 808 Pure View Revolutionary How good can a pixel be? With its groundbreaking 41MP image quality, Carl Zeiss lens, and PureView imaging technology, you’ll take the best photos ever with a smartphone. For example, when you want a 5MP photo, PureView packs the goodness of 7 pixels into 1 for sharp, clear, and ready [...]
Software and Programming Languages Software is the general term used to describe the set of programs. Software consists of programs, routines and procedures, together with associated documentations, that can run a computer system. So, software is the word used for the actual programs that allow the hardware to do a useful job. Without software, hardware [...]
Networking Connecting pieces of communications and information equipment together in a network is not a new concept. Â In a computer network, a number of computers are connected together in order to exchange information. For example, an organization having offices spread over a wide geographical area might install a network to enable employees to examine information [...]
Capability Maturity Model CMM, short for Capability Maturity Model is a process improvement technique for evaluating how efficiently a company is able to deliver technology products to its customers. Therefore, Capability Maturity Model offers a framework for evolutionary process improvement. In other words, being a registered service mark of Carnegie Mellon University, Capability Maturity Model [...]
Interview Being a section of the Human Resource Management, an interview is somewhat a formal meeting between the interviewer and the interviewee. So, an interview is like a formal conversation between the hirer, that is, the person who is actually hiring an individual for a specific post, and the candidate, in which information is exchanged, [...]
Programming Languages Being an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer, a programming language is a coded language used by programmers to write programs that is instructions that the computer can understand, in order to do what the programmer or the computer user wants the computer to do. Therefore, a [...]
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a recognized discipline within computer science. It attempts to design software (sometimes with associate hardware) that behaves in a way that, if it were human behavior, would be described as “intelligentâ€. Therefore, Artificial Intelligence is the branch of computer science concerned with making computers [...]
