MTN combats Sim Swap fraud with Absa
MTN and Absa have formulated a task team that will keep a close eye on fraud and bring about new ways to rapidly clamp down on it. This follows an urgent meeting where executives from Absa and MTN discussed the More...
VMware Announces vCloud Hybrid Service
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has unveiled VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud operated by VMware and built on the trusted foundation of VMware vSphere, giving customers a common More...
Enterprise social collaboration on the rise
Avanade, a global business technology solutions and managed services provider, today released results from a global survey on adoption of social collaboration technologies by 4,000 end users and 1,000 business More...
MTN ranked as highest African brand
South African mobile operator MTN has topped the list as the highest ranked African brand in the prestigious Millward-Brown Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2013 survey, released today. MTN Group President More...
Bill Gates once-again world’s richest
Microsoft creator Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest person, as an upsurge in Microsoft’s stock price pushed him beyond former number one Carlos Slim. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, More...
Tigo Rwanda launches BlackBerry Z10
Rwanda mobile service provider Tigo has announced that BlackBerry’s latest smartphone, the Z10, is now available for mobile subscribers in the country, and added that the Z10 is fully supported by the network. Rwanda More...
Uganda forms ICT Association of Uganda
Uganda has officially launched the ICT Association of Uganda (ICTAU), a sector lobby group which aims to bring together ICT professionals and policy makers to share ideas on how to further the country’s ICT goals More...
GSMA opens office in Kenya
The GSMA today announced that it has opened a permanent office in Nairobi, Kenya. The office will be based in the heart of Nairobi’s Innovation Hub (iHub) for the technology community and will enable the GSMA More...
BlackBerry launches Global Women’s Initiative
Today, BlackBerry Global Creative Director, Alicia Keys, launched the new BlackBerry Scholars Program, the first step in the company’s global women’s initiative designed to inspire more women to enter More...
City of Joburg Broadband Project to go live in July
The City of Joburg Broadband Project will go live on 1 July 2013 after a 3 year build phase, which BWired will operate for 12 years. The completion of the fibre optic network covers all 7 regions of the City of More...