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Eaton Towers secures $150m African tower investment
Eaton Towers, the African tower ownership and management company, has secured a major round of equity funding worth $150m from Capital International Private Equity Funds (“CIPEF”), a private equity investor that focuses on emerging markets. The funding will be used…
Q&A: Is cloud computing confusing CIOs?
IBM has opened new facilities, an IBM Cloud Data Centre and Cloud lab this week, to extend the company’s cloud delivery capabilities and to meet market demand in sub-Saharan Africa. IBM has deployed Cloud Data Centres in Singapore, Germany, Canada,…
Microsoft snubs Adobe’s Flash
Computer giant Microsoft unveiled new features and applications for their forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, but also let slip that Internet Explorer 10 won’t support any plug-ins or Adobe’s Flash, which is popular among many websites. The company said that…
Microsoft Middle East Africa gets new President
Microsoft announced on 15 September 2011 the promotion of Ali Faramawy to Corporate Vice President Microsoft Corporation and President for Microsoft Middle East and Africa. As corporate vice president, Faramawy will be responsible for Microsoft’s operations in the Middle East…
Kenya, Nigeria snatch Google apps award
Two Kenyans are among three winners of the Sh7.2 million (about US $75 000) Google Android Developer Challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa aimed at encouraging mobile phone applications for use in Africa. The two, David Lemayian of Capefield Ltd and Gerald Kibugi…
Will Africa clinch SKA telescope deal?
South Africa, in partnership with eight other African countries, will compete with Australia and New Zealand in a race to win the bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), set to be one of the most powerful telescopes in…
Vodafone Egypt revenue growth stagnates
Vodafone Egypt has ruled out possible revenue growth for the remainder of the year, despite strong new customer acquisitions, the company’s CEO Hatem Dweidar announced this week. Vodafone Egypt initially reported a subscriber base of 34 million at the end…
Zambia finally connects to undersea cable
The landlocked southern African nation of Zambia has become the latest African country to connect to the high speed undersea cables which began to arrive on the African coast about a year ago. Zambia, which has no access to the…
Datatec interim earnings up by 33%
Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed ICT group Datatec is currently finalising its results for the six months ended 31 August 2011, which will be published on 12 October 2011. Datatec is required to publish trading statements if the financial results…
Kenya extends 4G mobile spectrum bid deadline
Kenya’s government has given telecom operators in the country an extension to bid on a 4G spectrum license, the country’s ministry of communications announced this week. The 14 September 2011 deadline has been extended by two weeks despite an initial…
Virtualised desktops enable standardisation
Virtualisation is one of several buzzwords currently making the rounds within the Information Communication Technology (ICT) departments of most large corporates, heralded as a convenient way to reduce costs and improve the overall management of ICT, including licensing, within the…
Zim’s Burco Business Solutions rebrands
Zimbabwe’s ICT company, Burco Business Solutions has changed its name to Burco Technologies. Tony Jordan, Burco MD said Burco had been in business in Zimbabwe for nearly 75 years, first in the area of business equipment and more recently, in…
IBM SA unveils smart cloud for enterprises
IBM SA announced a range of new cloud solutions during a media function held today at the Saxon, Johannesburg, South Africa. Werner Lindemann, IBM Sub-Saharan Africa Global Technology Services VP says the company’s strategy over the past few years has…
Innovation Dinner highlights collaborative Tech
ITNewsAfrica (www.itnewsafrica.com) in partnership with HP, MTN and Ericsson hosted the bi-monthly Innovation Dinner series featuring international guest speaker Theodore Forbath, on the 31st of August 2011. Over the past 15 years, Boston based Theodore Forbath has helped global business…
Google to create free Kenyan websites
Google, in partnership with Safaricom and Equity Bank, plans to bring small and medium scale enterprise (SMEs) businesses in Kenya online for free. The project, dubbed “Getting Kenyan Businesses Online (GKBO)”, provides a template for SMEs to log onto www.kbo.co.ke…
Contact Centres – key emerging trends
Many of the key trends emerging in the local contact centre space are mirroring those taking shape globally. In the important areas we’re right there on the communications frontier, which means our brands are facing the same challenges as those…
