Delays in migrating television broadcasts from analogue to digital signal transmission is cutting back on the growth of local companies investing in new infrastructure, according to technology firm Tellumat.

Mauritius has announced the first phase of the Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION), an underwater fibre optics cable valued at € 37 million, that will link three islands of the Indian Ocean – Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion – to the rest of the world.

Nashua Mobile’s strategy for 2010 summed up in one word: Connectivity. Aside from launching a new division, EasiSolutions, in March this year, offering tailor-made solutions to clients and corporates, the company also plans to diversify its product portfolio with a greater focus on better connectivity and hosted applications.

Social network LinkedIn, today announced the launch of a LinkedIn application designed for BlackBerry smartphones, which can be downloaded at the BlackBerry App World store.

Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C (“Zain”) today announced the signing of definitive agreements for the sale of 100% of Zain Africa BV, its African business excluding its operations in Morocco and Sudan (”Zain Africa”), to Bharti Airtel Limited (“Bharti Airtel”), for an Enterprise Value of US$10.7 billion. The transaction implies an equity value of US$9 billion [...]

Alcatel-Lucent has made possible video delivery to any device, fixed or mobile.This latest development will see service providers being able to offer their clients the ability to access video stored on Digital Video Recorders (DVR) and other advanced video features, from their respective TVs, PCs and mobile devices, wherever they go.

Brought by South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB), PayPal, a division of eBay, offers international banking services to FNB customers in the country.

South African operator Vodacom and Nedbank today announced a joint initiative to bring mobile money service M-PESA to the country.

Zimbabwe’s second largest mobile cellular company, Telecel has launched a new service, Mega Juice, which enables its subscribers to talk for a longer period of time.

Markus Bucher, CEO at Swicon360, explains why HR needs a viable solution integrated with virtual infrastructure in the cloud..

AMD today announced the availability of its new series server platform Opteron 6000 with Direct Conect Architecture 2.0 for improved performance and power. Opteron 6000 features an 8 and 12 core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market, addressing workload-specific performance, power efficiency, increased cores and memory. “The AMD Opteron 6000 [...]