With less than six weeks to go before all mobile subscribers have to be registered, Telecel Zimbabwe has introduced on-line registration and registration via the mobile phone itself for the convenience of its customers. Customers can use a mobile registration system similar to the one they use when making a balance enquiry. Alternatively they can [...]

Seedcamp, a European micro seed fund that invests in early stage startup companies, has selected 11 South African technology startups to possibly attend the Seedcamp Week programme held in September in London, UK, where they will be in line for a potential €50,000 investment. Seedcamp, in conjunction with the Tech4Africa conference, recently put out a [...]

Cisco announced today that the Wananchi Group, provider of triple-play (broadband, multi-channel cable television and voice telephony) and VSAT (broadband data and internet) services, has signed a contract for the purchase of Cisco network technology solutions and services in East Africa. The agreement is supported by Cisco Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, [...]

AFTER terminating its contract with Safaricom a week ago, Mobicom Kenya Limited has now entered into a partnership with Telkom Kenya as its main distributor. During its partnership with Safaricom, Mobicom Kenya Limited sold more than sh 450 million worth of Safaricom airtime per month, according to the proprietor Paul Ndung’u. The Company which is [...]

Research In Motion today announced updates to BlackBerry App World™, the official application store for BlackBerry smartphones. BlackBerry App World provides BlackBerry smartphone customers with an intuitive, integrated service for discovering, downloading, recommending and managing mobile applications for personal or business use. BlackBerry App World now supports new payment options, includes enhanced discovery and search [...]

Lockheed Martin announced recently that it has received a $1.1-million contract from the US Army for human trials and evaluation of its advanced ruggedized Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) exoskeleton, “designed to augment soldiers’ strength and endurance, as well as reduce load carriage injuries.” According to Lockheed martin: The HULC is a completely un-tethered, hydraulic-powered [...]

The introduction of a small interconnect fee for SMS messaging is essential in an environment where both businesses and consumers rely on SMS messaging for communication purposes. Currently, there is no SMS interconnect fee agreed between the three local network operators. On an international level, there are still several network operators that are not paying [...]

Infrared Inspection Systems (IRIS), a division of Alexander Forbes, assisted to track down Panjo through the use of innovative thermal imaging scanners. “Upon realising that there was a tiger treading through the bushes of Mpumalanga and possibly putting the communities’ lives in danger we volunteered to use our infrared technology to find Panjo,” says Werner [...]

Many South African advertising agencies are still struggling to bridge their own digital divide: a gap between their online skills and offerings and the changing needs of the market. All too many agencies still see the digital channel as separate, and often, less important than the traditional marketing channels they have built their businesses on. [...]

SOFTWARE Application Programme (SAP)’s corporate affairs executive, Sunil Geness has been appointed president of the Information Technology Association (ITA). According to the acting general manager of the ITA, Nisha Pillay, Geness will be the president of ITA of South Africa, which represents companies that supply information technology equipment, systems software and services to the ICT [...]

JSE listed ICT company, Gijima has rejuvenated its brand to coincide with its fifth anniversary this year. Speaking at the celebratory event at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton this evening (27 July), CEO Jonas Bogoshi, who took over the reins of the company from John Miller in 2007, was delighted that Gijima’s clients, partners, staff [...]