Communicating anywhere, anytime on any device during the World Cup in South Africa has been declared a 100% success and leading technology and services provider, Ericsson, has been recognised as key to making this happen. During the period of the event the network carried a data equivalent of approximately 300 hours of DVD viewing or [...]
Pan African telecom company, Gateway Communications has announced a partnership with Qatar Telecom (Qtel) that will ensure highest quality roaming and international voice for Algerian fans travelling to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup.
The Qtel Group has a presence in 17 countries and provides coverage to a population in excess of 660 million people, [...]
MTN has announced the availability of “Find and Follow SA” for BlackBerry smartphones, a new application that lets MTN BlackBerry subscribers find local information and stay in touch with the latest football news and events across South Africa.
This local search application makes it simple for MTN subscribers who use a BlackBerry smartphone to stay on [...]
A UK video website WinkBall, is employing 30 local citizen journalists as well as having
its video reporters travelling from the UK for the forthcoming World Cup.
The reporters, will be tasked with talking to fans, businesses and visitors about the build up to the World Cup as well as cover the games of the tournament. [...]
Its just about 3 weeks before Africa’s first world cup gets going, and Symantec has released a checklist to help computer users stave off spam, viruses and other malicious online activity.
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The soccer world cup in South Africa in 2010 will see a massive explosion in the availability and adoption of mobile content and applications throughout Africa as consumers use every channel at their disposal to stay in touch with news about the tournament.
FIFA has vowed to crack down on websites selling fake World Cup tickets, 100 websites globally have been shut down so far ahead of the world cup in South Africa next year.
FIFA.com is offering other websites the chance to replicate its unique coverage of world football and FIFA competitions for free through its content syndication programme, the world football governing body said.
FIFA’s website provides live coverage of FIFA tournaments and FIFA World Cup™ qualifiers,
Abuja (IT News Africa) — TELECOMMUNICATIONS company, Globacom, underlined its commitment to the development of sport when it donated US$3million to the Federation of International Football Associations for the upcoming Under 17 World Cup that Nigeria will host later this year.
MOBILE network operator, MTN, has set its sights of entering the Guinness Book of Records through an initiative that will see it sponsor a fan who will watch the highest number of FIFA World
Cup live matches in a single tournament.
SOUTH Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) is calling for an investigation into the tendering process for the Durban City Council’s World Cup website, which was recently awarded to a BEE company at the cost of R5.5 million.