VIETNAM and Egypt are looking at ways to increase the two countries’ information technology cooperation, Vietnam’s visiting deputy minister of information and communications has said.
Nguyen Minh Hong said his country was looking into how Egypt has centralised IT centers across the country in an effort to build the IT sector for the future.
He told ITNewsAfrica.com [...]
Dimension Data has emerged as the major winner at Microsoft’s annual Partner Awards, announced at a gala dinner at Sun City on Thursday night.
Dimension Data walked away with five awards, including the Large Account Reseller of the Year, Services Partner and Unified Communications Solutions Partner Awards.
Two companies won three awards each: Security specialists BUI won [...]
TEACHERS in Kenya can now acquire laptops complete with broadband internet connection and other software from Safaricom at affordable rates.
This follows the signing of a partnership between Kenya’s leading telecoms firm, Safaricom, Equity Bank, Microsoft, Intel, Kenya Institute of Education and teachers’ main employer body, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
Speaking during the signing ceremony at [...]
Fujitsu Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. have announced a new worldwide cloud computing partnership that enables Fujitsu to deploy the Windows Azure platform appliance in Fujitsu datacenters. Fujitsu will deliver a comprehensive set of new cloud services and solutions, including system integration, cloud migration and managed services, to customers and independent software vendors (ISVs). Fujitsu will [...]
As Microsoft’s SharePoint Solution has matured over the last decade, more and more organisations have implemented SharePoint to make use of the Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration capabilities to overcome the obstacles of collaborating and sharing structured and unstructured data. The recent release of SharePoint 2010 means that many of these organisations will be looking [...]
An alliance between Microsoft and Nokia today saw the launch of its first mobile application, Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia devices, aimed at simplifying mobile collaboration.
“Our alliance with Nokia aims to bring the Office productivity experience to the millions of people using Nokia smartphones around the world. With the arrival of Communicator Mobile for Nokia [...]
Traditional hardware-based phone systems including desktop phones and PBX will become history as business applications move towards embedded unified communications, this according to South African Microsoft Unified Communications specialists, Galdon Data.
Software giant Microsoft has released a platform preview for its upcoming browser Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), claiming it will provide better speed, optimized performance and support for HTML5, DOM and CSS3 standards.
Software giant Microsoft on Monday announced the development of a new interface and an app store for its new smartphone platform, Windows Phone 7 Series.
Microsoft continues to demonstrate its support Nigeria’s growing ICT market by enlarging its presence in the African country, with a new office in Lagos.
Sony Corp. is planning to launch a motion controller for its PlayStation3 console, aiming to offer a gaming experience beyond its rival’s Nintendo Wii.