Microsoft Corp.’s annual Next-Gen PC Design Competition is open for online entry submission until 11:59 p.m. EST Dec. 14. The competition aims to encourage ongoing enthusiasm for Windows-based PCs by engaging the imagination and creativity of the industrial design (ID) community and delivering a resource for the PC industry at large.

Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites have become the top tool for hiring IT staff, a new survey among recruitment companies reveals.

The Connect Africa Leaders’ summit kicked off in the Rwandan capital Kigali Monday. The conference focuses on investment and development in Africa’s burgeoning telecommunications industry. For VOA, Noel King has more in this report from Kigali.

The sixteen countries covered by the report are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.

President Umaru Yar’Adua has directed the National Communications Commission (NCC) to grant Frequency and Operating Licence to Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited.

At the ITU Connect Africa Conference in Kigali, Rwanda today Nokia Siemens Networks spoke about how it is enabling Africans everywhere to gain access to connectivity.

The Symantec division at Workgroup has announced the local availability of a new solution that integrates multiple security technologies into a single agent “ Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.

Cape Town internet magazine the first to release 2010 Google Earth Map. In Cape Town the first extensive Google Earth map with Soccer Stadiums, Airports, Host Cities and Fan Parks for South Africa’s 2010 Soccer World Cup was launched by CapeTownMagazine.com, Cape Town’s largest internet magazine in English, German and Dutch.

Local Spectra Logic distributor, Workgroup, has announced the eight-frame Spectra T950, an enterprise-class library that expands as agency data grows, up to 16.08 petabytes, compressed.

Microsoft has beaten out rival Google in a battle to invest in socializing Web site Facebook, agreeing to pay $US240 million for a stake in the Web phenomenon and expand a deal to sell advertising. Google and Microsoft, now rivals for Internet-based audiences and applications, each expressed interest in a minority stake in Facebook for [...]

You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation.