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Vodacom's talent search for innovative Apps has gone international with the addition of countries such as Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Qatar and Tanzania. Developers not only have an opportunity to design and showcase their apps in South Africa, they now have an opportunity to participate in the international Vodafone App…

Samsung, world leading handset manufacturer has hinted it would start loading some African pictures, videos, music and dialects into its new handsets beginning from January 2013.



Samsung South Africa Chief Operating Officer, George Ferreira disclosed this to Ghanaian journalists…

Ghana’s telecommunications leader, MTN, continues to be the pacesetter for others to follow in an industry that is increasingly becoming more sophisticated and keenly competitive. The telecom giant, by the end of third quarter of, 2012, controlled about half of the mobile phone market with a subscriber base of 11million…

Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications service provider with operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa moved up one notch in the world wide ranking to be the fourth largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers. (Source: Wireless Intelligence ‘Scoreboard’).



Top Five Operators…

Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, announced today that an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 23 satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff occurred at 4:37 a.m. EDT. The Intelsat 23 satellite separated from the…

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on October 17, 2012 launched a new partnership called the ‘m-Health’ initiative to use mobile technology, in particular text messaging and apps, to help combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer,…

As part of a global community service initiative, Microsoft employees are visiting Malawi to roll out a targeted education drive.  In its second year, this teacher training program, dubbed the Malawi Learning Partnership (MLP), is a community networking project using ICT tools to connect students and teachers giving them access to critical learning resources.…

By Nick Cadenhead, solutions consultant for AIGS

Re-engineering or changing an IT system can prove to be a challenge within a complex environment, particularly for manufacturers who may require a system able to take hundreds if not thousands of variables into account. In addition, the dearth…

The University of Manchester is providing five scholarships available specifically for Ugandan, Tanzanian or Rwandan citizens.  The scholarships are for study starting in January 2013 on one of two distance learning Masters programmes offered by the University's Institute for Development Policy and Management:

- MSc in Human Resource Management and Development

- MSc in Management and Information Systems

Applications are now being accepted, and…

Stratcomm Africa, Ghana’s total communications agency, has urged oil and gas companies operating in Ghana and abroad to use professional communications support in order to avoid challenges especially crisis situations.

“Extractive industry organisations that ignore the use of professional…

With Africa importing almost 99% of its Internet traffic and with a consumer base of over 139 Million Internet users, the continent is facing what’s known as an Internet Traffic Trade deficit or  “Transit deficit”.

While similar to what was experienced in Europe and the United States during the late 1990s. African businesses and end-users also pay the high cost of local infrastructure.  For example:  Moving…

The anticipated 2^nd annual IT Leaders East Africa Summit will take place from 5 to 6 September 2012 in Nairobi; in the heart of Kenya’s esteemed capital city. The summit is produced and hosted by international business-to-business conferencing company, Kinetic Events in proud association with the Kenya ICT Board (KICTB) and Kenya Information Technology and Outsourcing Services (KITOS).

Summit producers have announced platinum sponsor Telkom SA on board for the IT Leaders…

•    MTN Nigeria first African operator to deploy groundbreaking SSR 8020 platform for wireless IP core network.

•       SSR 8020 supports significantly more subscribers from a single Evolved Packet Gateway (EPG) than competing nodes on the market.

•       Deployment will enable MTN to efficiently meet rapidly increasing demand for data…

Vodacom announced the launch of the Vodafone 155, an affordable and easy-to-use mobile handset specifically designed for the elderly. This handset is also suitable for customers with low vision, hearing loss or limited dexterity.

It's often challenging for older people to keep up with technology while having to deal with vision, hearing and other health related…