The internet in Egypt has been shut down by the Mubarak regime, forcing locals to revert to old fashioned means of communication such as Fax, Landlines, Snail mail and ham radios. Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said the social networking site is seeing minimal traffic from Egypt. Egyptians do not have access to Google and YouTube [...]
Google’s Android has overtaken Nokia’s Symbian as the number one smartphone operating system in the fourth quarter, research firm Canalys said Monday, underscoring the rapid changes sweeping through the mobile space. Shipments of Android-based smartphones surged sevenfold on-year to 33 million, driven by strong sales from handset makers such as South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. [...]
An agreement with Omni Africa, based in Harare, sees Softline VIP, part of Softline and Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business software and related services has increased its footprint into Sub-Saharan Africa by establishing a partner network in Zimbabwe. Omni Africa is well represented in Zimbabwe, making the partnership with Softline VIP [...]
NIGERIA’S Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has promised to assist Ecobank Plc recover N11.7 billion which Nigeria Telecommunications (NITEL) Plc owes the bank. The money was loaned to NITEL in 2006 to acquire the necessary equipment to continue its telephone operation as a national carrier. Sambo made the promise when management of the bank paid [...]
Spescom DataVoice has announced the release of Qnique v3.1, an updated version of their proprietary Contact Centre Suite for Workforce Optimisation. The new version of the suite contains general functionality enhancements as well as a new module, QAdherence, and upgraded reporting functionality. QAdherence is an additional and optional module to the Qnique suite that focuses [...]
Over the past few years, social media has ballooned from a small, emerging market into a major force in the online marketing and advertising space. However, those who lived through the dotcom boom-and-bust cycle can’t help asking whether we are about to see another bubble burst. After all, the hype about social media has quickly [...]
France Telecom, which owns 40 percent of Morocco’s private wireless operator Medi Telecom (Meditel) said that it will sell a 7-year bond to raise 1.2 billion dirhams, the company said in a press statement. The bond aims to mainly help Meditel boost its network coverage as part of a 4.7 billion dirhams investment plan over [...]
South African telecom operator Neotel has appointed Sunil Joshi as the company’s new Managing Director and CEO, with effect from 1 April 2011. Mr Joshi, currently President of Global Enterprise Solutions for Tata Communications, replaces Ajay Pandey who will move to back to Tata Communications after completing five years with Neotel. Commenting on the change [...]
CAIRO: For the second day in a row the social networking site Twitter is blocked in Egypt. The site was blocked as of mid-afternoon on Tuesday as tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered across the country. Twitter is a medium that has proven vital to activist, who use the site to inform each other of [...]
Large street demonstrations disrupted call centers catering to French firms, leaving numerous clients stranded on helplines, officials said. The protests are a continuation of unrest in the Tunisian capital that has seen the government collapse and the president flee. According to reports on the ground, the protests forced the shutting down or reduced hours, forcing [...]
ECI Telecom recently launched services in Uganda in the hope of providing affordable services in the country. In an interview with East African Business Week, head of Middle and East Africa at ECI Telecom Itzhak Ronen, talked about the new initiatives that are being brought into the country. The Israeli company hopes that Uganda will [...]