French telecom group ,Vivendi may buy Orascom Telecom’s Algerian unit, French daily La Tribune said on Friday.The paper wrote that Mehdi Dazi, member of Vivendi’s board, was in Algiers last Saturday to meet with local businessmen including Issad Rebrab,

There’s a perception that virtualisation has almost eliminated the need for capacity planning. But, Herman van Heerden, Managing Director of Starship Systems, a local technology company specialising in the design, supply and deployment of virtualisation technologies, says this is a misconception.

In South Africa, Duane Brady lost his job and faces criminal charges after posting allegedly defamatory messages on Facebook. In Canada, a woman off work for depression had her sick benefits suspended after she posted pictures showing her out, about and happy.

Huawei recently announced the establishment of its first telecoms Research and Development (R&D) centre in South Africa. This new development seeks to assist in positioning South Africa’s telecoms technology innovation drive to be on par with the global trends.

MTN and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the availability of prepaid BlackBerry® service plan for MTN customers in South Africa. MTN prepaid customers will now be able to enjoy the benefits of using a BlackBerry® smartphone to stay connected to people and information on the go.

Pursuant to trade union Solidarity’s claims that Telkom plans to retrench 4000 contract and temporary employees, the company has released a statement saying that as part of the existing substantive agreement between Telkom and organised labour as represented by the Communication Workers Union (CWU),

News that Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) is to be delayed until November 2011 has prompted iBurst to implement a solution to circumvent the unavailability of LLU in South Africa.

MTN has enabled subscribers in Africa to enhance the value of their mobile phonebooks with one-click after phone calls thanks to CallerXchange, OnePIN’s social address book service. This peer-to-peer service, deployed to all MTN Congo mobile subscribers via new Gemalto SIM cards,

ITNewsAfrica.com is proud to announce the launch of a new press office for telecom giant, Alcatel-Lucent .

The pace of the transition to digital broadcasting in Africa is picking up with a larger group of countries now entering the race with practical action rather than just policy proposals.

The Information Communication Technology (ICT) security threat landscape has gone through significant changes in the last few years, which in turn have altered the distribution profile for new malware.