A JOINT operation between Kenyan police and the Kenya Copyright Board (KCB) has led to the confiscation of several dozens of computers with illegal software.
According to The Standard newspaper, the operation was instituted following tip-offs that software pirates in Nairobi and other cities around the country were engaging in shady deals.

PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced that SC Magazine, the oldest and most widely-read IT security publication in the United States, has named PGP Corporation as the 2008 Innovator in Encryption for the second consecutive year.

THE biggest soccer league in Africa, South Africa’s Premier Soccer League will from the next round of the season shift to electronic advertising at its stadiums.
This is ahead of the FIFA Confederations Cup and the FIFA World Cup that the country will host in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri is proving not only unpopular among players in the communication industry but with the main opposition as well.
The Democratic Alliance gave her a rating of 1/10 for 2008, which is the joint lowest ranking the party gave to a cabinet minister.

MTN customers have become the latest victims of identity theft scams promising mobile phone subscribers immense rewards.

SOUTH African-based Vodacom said its partnership with Research In Motion (RIM) that saw them launch the first prepaid offering for the BlackBerry Internet Service in the country would particularly benefit students and up and coming businesses.

TECHNOLOGY experts are counting the cost of war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which has led to the destruction of mobile phone bases and telecommunications sub-stations in the country.

SOUTH African mobile phone operator, MTN, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Public Investment Corporation, which will enable it to facilitate the formulation of a BEE transaction in the early part of the new year, the company has said.

THE visually-impaired in South Africa are set for an early Christmas gift from a leading mobile network services provider this weekend when the Premier Soccer League takes a festive season break.

MOBILE phone manufacturer Samsung has underlined its commitment to empower youngsters around the African continent through a partnership with a non-governmental organization in a project aimed at raising R1 000 000.

Zain, a leading mobile operator in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa today announced the launch of commercial services in Ghana with the launch of the first true 3.5G network in the continent outside South Africa.