Companies looking to dispose of old PCs in an environmentally friendly but secure way can make use of a new charity backed by Microsoft which sends refurbished computers to the developing world. Digital Pipeline, launched on Wednesday, began life in 2004 and developed out of Microsoft’s ICT-in-schools project, African Pathfinder. The charity aims to make [...]

Director General of National Space Research Development Agency (NASRDA) Professor Robert Borrofice has said Nigeria will send it first astronaut to space by the year 2015 and launch an indigenous satellite from the country without foreign assistance by 2018. He disclosed this at a public lecture on space technology development in Nigeria yesterday organised by [...]

By prosecuting copyright infringers in Asia, it drives consumers into the Linux camp. Better to ease up and build market share — for now. On July 25, in a rare collaboration between U.S. and Chinese law enforcement, the FBI and China’s Public Security Bureau raided a southern Chinese operation that had allegedly pirated Microsoft Windows [...]

Digg Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced an agreement in which the two companies will collaborate to bring relevant advertising to the more than 17 million unique monthly visitors to Digg, an innovative Web site that harnesses the collective wisdom of the world’s online audience to prioritize the overwhelming amount of content available on the [...]

After a brief appearance in the Kroonstad Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Juan Duval-Uys, who is alleged to be behind the sex blogs slandering several high-profile South African men, will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday. He is suspected of being the author of the kiss-and-tell blog in which he assumed the role of [...]

For a long time, anyone seeking services from a government office was sure to meet frustrations. If lost records did not make it impossible to transact some business, long processes and lax staff did. Few services were available outside Nairobi and people often had to travel long distances only to be told to “come tomorrow” [...]

The Connect Africa Summit, to be held in Kigali, Rwanda, on 29 and 30 October, will seek to promote partnerships and the roll-out of ICT infrastructure, including broadband, as a precondition for ICT access and services in Africa. Connect Africa aims to mobilize the human, technical and financial resources needed to close major gaps in [...]

Electronics manufacturer LG has launched a new range of Internet- enabled mobile phones in the Kenyan market targeting the technology savvy consumers to grow its market. With the new range of phones, users will be able to upload their digital images to social networking sites such as YouTube —the popular video sharing website that is [...]

On a muggy day in Kigali in 2003, some of the highest-ranking officials in the Rwandan government, including President Paul Kagame, flanked an American businessman, Greg Wyler, as he boldly described how he could help turn their small country into a hub of Internet activity. Wyler, an executive based in Boston who made his fortune [...]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announces it is leading the fast-growing Enterprise Portal market in license and maintenance revenue for the fifth consecutive year as dynamic Web 2.0 functionality takes root in portals, according to an annual report by IDC. Building on the next generation of the Internet, known as Web 2.0, IBM is integrating its [...]

Learn.com®, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced today that Nomix Digital, a provider of training and consultancy services, in South Africa, has partnered with Learn.com to resell the LearnCenter® platform to the South African market. “We chose Learn.com because they offer a system like no other in the LMS space with tools [...]