Tunisia takes over 51 percent of Orange
In a move anticipated by analysts and observers in Tunisia, the government has taken over 51 percent of Orange Tunisia. The telecom operator is owned by Marwan Mabrouk, the son-in-law of former Tunisian President More...
NEC makes North Africa expansion
NEC Unified Solutions is expanding its network reach by moving into North Africa after signing with Encom as a business partner in Morocco. The move is expected to see the development of information technology infrastructure More...
Nokia gives phones to Egyptian tweeters
Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has doled out a number of phones to Egyptian activists on Twitter after they tweeted about the phone over the past week. According to observers of the Egyptian Twittersphere the phones More...
Spam botnets rally after Rustock closure
According to Symantec, in the March edition of the MessageLabs spam report, global spam levels fell by 33 percent when the Rustock botnet was dismantled in mid-March. However, the Bagle botnet quickly filled More...
Samsung Galaxy Tabs are world’s thinnest
The Samsung GALAXY TAB 10.1 (Image: File Photo) Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has put an end to months of speculation and officially announced two new additions to its family of tablets, the GALAXY Tab 10.1 and GALAXY More...
James Gosling joins Google
James Gosling, creator of Java, joins Google (Image: wikimedia commons) Google has hired James Gosling, the man who created the Java programming language. It is not clear what Gosling’s responsibilities will More...
Nokia files second ITC complaint against Apple
Apple iPhone (Image: file photo) The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has received a second complaint from Nokia alleging that Apple infringes additional Nokia patents in almost all of its products. More...
Orascom Telecom wants capital increase
Orascom Telecom, Egypt and the Middle East’s largest telecommunications company in terms of subscribers, asked on Monday for its shareholders to approve an almost double capital increase to 14 billion Egyptian More...
Airtel Nigeria looking at data market
Airtel Nigeria is going full steam toward developing Nigeria’s 3G networks. According to a report by Business Day, the company’s CEO Rajan Swaroop said that they are looking to erect a 3G network expanding to More...
MTN Nigeria, Alcatel-Lucent ink DSL deal
MTN Nigeria and Alcatel-Lucent announced on Monday that they were combining forces in an effort to transform the mobile operator’s DSL access and aggregation network. According to the statement issued by the two More...