Internet service giant, iBurst Africa is expanding its operations in Ghana after enjoying high patronage in the country. The company which provides a wide-area mobile broadband technology offers unique combination of high speed, wide range and high base station capacity.

A new local technology podcast, hosted by a group of high profile tech journalists, was launched recently.

Technology solutions provider Cisco Systems Incorporated has launched a new partnership programme to reduce skills shortage in Africa’s telecoms industry.

Investors planning to buy Safaricom shares through the initial public offer can apply online come the 28 of this march when the offer opens.

THE success story being told about the telecommunications industry in Nigeria today came principally because of the liberalisation of the sector when the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 took that decisive step.

Etisalat, one of the telecom operators in the UAE, has launched mobile services in Nigeria, becoming the fifth operator in the oil-rich west African country, officials said on Saturday.

Demand for mobile content services in South Africa will grow by an average of 15 per cent per year until 2013, according to a report from Frost & Sullivan.

Idea Engineers’ Janice Spark peers across the 2007 brand scape, examines the winners, the losers and those negotiating troubled waters… The winners… Apple and the iPhone In June 2007 New York Magazine featured Apple’s driving force, Steve Jobs, on its cover supported by the tag “iGod” – which was only relatively hyperbolic. Apple just seems [...]

The Competition Commission has officially approved Huge Group Ltd’s purchase of Centracell (Pty) Ltd. This was the last outstanding item for completion of the Centracell purchase.

PandaLabs detected 272 percent more malicious rootkits in 2007 than in 2006. Programmes designed to hide certain objects and processes, rootkits are used by cyber-crooks to hide the processes of malicious codes, making them invisible to security solutions and the operating process.

The Egyptian mobile operator, Etisalat Misr has selected Ericsson for its network expansion. This follows an agreement recently endorsed between the two companies to boost the mobile broadband in the region, bringing Etisalat Misr’s total investment with Ericsson equipment and services to more than EUR 200 million, about N23.467 million, to date.