With a population of more than a billion people, explosive mobile phone adaptation and access to inexpensive Internet-access devices (like desktop, laptop, tablet computers) Africa is entering the “Information Age” at a mind-boggling pace. What are the risks and opportunities for governments, consumers, entrepreneurs, investors, and humanitarian organizations? Based on Cherrypal’s extensive work with many [...]

We have been asked by many to launch a laptop donation program. Good Morning Edwin! The donation program is called “Education Wins” (EDWIN). Our objective is to support projects all over the world to make Internet access available to everyone. We will also provide tailored free educational applications and content, depending on region and age [...]

I have been asked by Dennis Allison to provide his students with more details about the design principles of Cherrypal laptop computers, the architecture of our cloud computing plans and the impact of our “good enough” product strategy on the developing world. Your feedback is very much appreciated! Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer [...]

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It’s Christmas Eve and I am watching “Love Actually”, one of my favorite movies. Love is all around. I am very grateful for the overwhelmingly positive response and encouragement Cherrypal received since we launched the Cherrypal Africa about a week ago. People from all over the world told us that this would be the first [...]

When most people in industrial countries talk about cars they talk about horsepower, torque, mostly technical details. If you need a car but can’t afford one all this technical “bragging ” details don’t matter anymore. All you want is a vehicle that drives you from point A to B, in the safest, most reliable, economically [...]

Philip Appiah from PAAJAF approached me some months ago. PAAJAF is a humanitarian services nongovernmental organization based in Accra, Ghana, West-Africa.  The  foundation provides food and shelter, clothing, basic health care, community building skills, job training  and education for children, women and orphans. Philip’s vision was to improve the lives of his 600 members through [...]

We launched the first Bing in January this year, 10.2″ screen, Intel270 based and Windows XP pre-installed; and we made the list of the top 10 most popular laptops within a month.  For those who wonder, Bing is not named after Microsoft’s latest search engine attempt. Bing is actually a cherry cultivate, and the Cherrypal [...]