In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces. Here Wright encourages users to create not households, as in The Sims, or cities, as in SimCity, but the entire universe, from single-celled life forms to galactic physics. While guiding us through [...]

Software giant Microsoft has begun renting its Office productivity suite to users in South Africa so that they are able to run the package without buying it. Instead of purchasing it, the user are able to rent the software on a pre-pay basis. It is one of a number of ways Microsoft is experimenting with [...]

Local Symantec distributor, Workgroup, has announced an agreement between Symantec and Skype whereby it can now offer small office and home office Skype users PC security solutions. Symantec’s Norton Internet Security and Norton AntiVirus 2007 products have been Skype certified confirming that Symantec’s line of Norton products meet Skype’s strict standards for security, quality and [...]

A REGIONAL portal for the East African Community members states has been launched in Kampala. The portal, www.eac-quality.net, was unveiled by the ICT minister, Dr. Ham Mulira, at Hotel Africana last week in Kampala. The minister explained that to tap the opportunities of the 21st century, the Government had liberalised the economy to encourage private [...]

A conference beginning in Nairobi, Kenya today will explore plans to get 80 per cent of the continent’s population hooked up to the internet and telephone services. The internet is seen as a vital tool in the fight against poverty on the continent, improving access to education and pushing forward ideas such as equal opportunities [...]

South African schools with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure are assured of a comprehensive security product, to protect them against any computer viruses. This is after a globally renowned software company, Symantec, renewed a donation of security technology of R260 million to schools countrywide.

MTN, one of Africa’s biggest mobile telephone operators is the latest entrant into Ghana’s telecommunications industry. After nearly one year of a takeover process, MTN has finally re-branded Areeba mobile network service operated by Scancom Ghana Limited. Scancom initially operated the service under the name of Spacefon but the named changed to Areeba when the [...]

Panda Security will be launching its new 2008 consumer product line comprising Panda Antivirus 2008, Panda Antivirus+Firewall 2008 and Panda Internet Security 2008 in South Africa at Futurex Cape Town (26-28 September). The new solutions have a far greater detection and disinfection capacity as they are based on the new security model, megadetection, allowing them [...]

American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an engaging account of the BMW Group’s Deep Blue project, intended to create the SUV of the future. Sending a team of German designers to live in the US and research the future of the SUV [...]

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 [...]

Participating in discussions today in New York, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will share their views on the future of technology and discuss their plans to strengthen their collaboration to meet customer demands for improved interoperability between the network and software solutions that the two companies provide. Today’s events [...]