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January 30, 2015 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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Submitting comments on the integrated ICT policy discussion paper today (Friday 30 January 2015) to the Department of Telecommunications and Postal services, ICT industry forum, the South Africa Communications Forum (SACF) has revealed that it is upbeat about prospects for an inclusive and modernised national ICT policy that is capable of enhancing national...
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January 30, 2015 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, North Africa, Opinion, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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In August 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) formally declared Ebola an International Public Health Emergency – the largest, most severe and most complex outbreak in four-decade history of the disease. Since then, it has been a race against time to...
January 28, 2015 •
East Africa, North Africa, Online, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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On 27 January 2015 social networking platforms Facebook, Instagram and Tinder suffered an hour long outage. The outage resulted in Facebook and Instagram users within Africa, as well as the rest of the world, being unable to connect to these services. While...
January 28, 2015 •
East Africa, North Africa, Online, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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Social networking giant Twitter has unveiled the roll-out of two new services: group messaging and a new mobile video experience. According to Twitter, the following features will be available in Africa as well as globally once the roll-out commences....
January 26, 2015 •
Opinion, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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Municipalities are increasingly playing a powerful role in the Internet connectivity market. Broadband is generally recognised as a strategic tool in building the information economy and society. Extensive local and international studies have shown massive...
January 26, 2015 •
Company News, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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South Africa is making significant headway in furthering financial inclusion, according to a new MasterCard report entitled “A Progressive Approach to Financial Inclusion.” According to MasterCard, the report explores the progress that 30 developed and...
January 23, 2015 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, North Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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Popular messaging service “WhatsApp” has made its way to PC browsers across the African continent. The reveal was made public by the firm’s CEO Jan Koum – on the company’s Facebook page. Loum stated that: “Today, for the...
January 23, 2015 •
Company News, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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The University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and Dimension Data revealed the formation of the Dimension Data Programme in Digital Disruption, which will be funded by Dimension Data through a sponsorship endowment to GIBS. The...
January 22, 2015 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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The total number of subscribers in Zimbabwe’s telecommunication sector grew by 2.6 percent to 11.4 million in the third quarter of 2014 from 11.1 million in 2013. This is according to the Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe...
January 21, 2015 •
Company News, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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MTN South Africa has announced the start of a process to reorganise its MTN Business unit, to strengthen its competitive advantage in the enterprise business solutions market. MTN is reorganising the unit to implement a new go-to-market structure that will...
January 21, 2015 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, North Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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Online money transfer service WorldRemit and telecoms operator MTN have inked a global partnership that will enable WorldRemit customers to send remittances instantly to MTN’s Mobile Money customers. The agreement is expected to extend WorldRemit’s...
January 20, 2015 •
Company News, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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Microsoft unveiled the results of its new survey in advance of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The report, titled “Views from Around the Globe: 2nd Annual Poll on How Personal Technology Is Changing Our Lives,” encompasses the...
January 20, 2015 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, North Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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According to the latest figures from the International Data Corporation (IDC), Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) shipments of 4G LTE handsets have increased more than four times over the last year and are now close to accounting for one half of all smartphones...
January 19, 2015 •
Southern Africa, Startups, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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South African transport mapping start-up GoMetro has introduced a new version of its mobile transport application site GoMetro Mini. According to the developers, GoMetro has now been equipped with all 11 official South African languages. According to the...
January 15, 2015 •
East Africa, Features, North Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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Increasing marketing technology investments are demanding more involvement from IT leaders to enable marketing to achieve full business value from its investments, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2015, IT leaders supporting marketing will need to build a...
January 14, 2015 •
East Africa, Features, North Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Darryl Linington •
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Michel Combes, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent has shared his vision for Africa. According to Combes, “Africa is among Alcatel-Lucent’s most promising markets,” and here is why: Combes writes: I am particularly pleased to present today my vision for Africa....
