Huawei to launch its latest mobile gadget next week
Thursday, April 09, 2015
The Chinese manufacturer has invited world tech media to the launch. The invitation to the event teases with a poster only stating, “It’s coming...” with the company logo and press conference details. One poster features the number eight in a digital style with a battery icon.
Another poster shows a picture of red and orange light trails making the number eight with words, ‘Get ready to ignite creativity’. A big hint from the invitations that Huawei could be launching the Ascend P8 is the quotation from Aristotle Poetics taken coincidently from Page 8, saying, ‘Infinitely various are the incidents in one man’s life’.
Whilst celebrating milestones in inclusivity, with notably P5 billion awarded to vulnerable groups, the report sounds a 'siren' on a dangerous and growing trend: the ballooning use of micro-procurement. That this method, designed for small-scale, efficient purchases, now accounts for a staggering 25% (P8 billion) of total procurement value is not a sign of agility, but a 'red flag'. The PPRA’s warning is unequivocal and must be...