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Innovation Dinner Attracts Top International Speaker
AFRICA’S foremost ICT publication ITNewsAfrica, has confirmed that international guest speaker Theodore Forbath, VP for Innovation Strategy at global innovation firm frog, will be a keynote speaker at the 31 August 2011 ITNewsAfrica Innovation Dinner. Frog works with the world’s…
MTN takes enterprise customisation to the next level
MTN Service Provider (SP) has completed the implementation of the industry’s first customised mobile synchronisation solution for Enforce, a national security company that provides security, video surveillance and armed response. Enforce required a handset solution that offered synchronisation of email,…
Gijima focuses on cloud benefits
Despite the company’s recent contractual dispute with the South African Home Affairs department, which resulted in a R373.9 million settlement and a decline in earnings before deductions (EBITDA) by a whooping 72,8%, Gijima, a technology solutions provider based in South…
Nigerian banking sector gets major boost
Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), a technology solutions provider, is set to boost retail banking in Nigeria with the supply of 600 new Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) to Nigerian banks. CWG is partnering with Wincor Nixdorf to deliver the new ATM banking…
Social Innovation Relay winners announced
A group of students from Sunward High school, also known as team Planet Researchers, have been awarded the top prize in the 2011 Social Relay competition organised by Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise in partnership with HP. The Social Innovation Relay encourages…
MasterCard launch electronic bill-paying services with Fawry
The Egyptian Electronic bill presentment & payment (EBPP) company Fawry announced it is joining forces with MasterCard to provide payment services to Egyptian customers, the Middle Eastern News service Bawaba reported Wednesday. Fawry’s EBPP consolidate billing services for businesses, and…
NetOne attracts industry heavy-weights
Zimbabwe’s third largest cellular mobile network, NetOne, has attracted interest from six foreign investors, who wish to buy shares from the mobile network. NetOne Managing Director, Reward Kangai, said high profiled telecommunication giants such as MTN Group Limited and Bharti…
Q&A: Synchronica CEO on doing business in Africa
UK based mobile messaging solutions provider Synchronica has seen great success on the African continent. Although the company has agreements with over 80 mobile operators and eight device manufacturers worldwide, their heart seems to lie in Africa. We spoke to…
Morocco extends tech program for students
The Moroccan government extended a program to provide technology to the country’s postgraduate students, the Dutch research firm Telecompaper reported this week. The Digital Morocco 2013 program subsidizes 85% of the purchase cost of a laptop computer, and provides one…
Egyptians use Twitter for fundraising effort
Popular social networking site Twitter is being used in Egypt by local activists who hopes it will be regular way of raising money for a charity to support popular development projects in the country. Started by blogger and activist Mahmoud…
Ugandan government to use video conferencing
In an effort to make government run more smoothly, Kampala is moving toward establishing a video conferencing network for Uganda’s government employees. The new technology, called Secure Messaging and Collaboration system, was launched this week and has analysts hopeful that…
University alumni raise money for ICT centre
Alumni from Dar es Salaam University are raising money for a new information, communications and technology centre, as Ugandan President Museveni has called on educational institutions to play a more active role in the economic and technological development on the…
Mobinil has heated words for Egyptian regulatory body
Egyptian mobile carrier Mobinil has leveled a series of accusations against the Egyptian Regulatory Authority, the Egyptian Arabic language daily al-Youm al-Saba’a reported. The newspaper reported that Mobinil accused the National Telecom Regulatory Authority of “complicating its stance in the…
Interactive Intelligence restructures
Interactive Intelligence Inc., a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, has completed its previously announced holding company reorganisation. A new Indiana corporation, Interactive Intelligence Group Inc., or ININ Group, has replaced Interactive Intelligence Inc. (“Interactive Intelligence”) as the…
Etisalat posts 15% decline in Q2 profit
The Emirati Telecommunications company Etisalat saw its second quarter profits decline nearly 15 percent, the Abu Dhabi-based English daily The National reported Monday. Etisalat posted a 1.59-billion Emerati Dirhams (Dh), or $434-million for quarter two, as opposed to 1.87-billion Dh,…
Vodacom’s broadband to be more affordable
South Africa’s mobile network operator, Vodacom, is taking drastic steps to make broadband more accessible and affordable to the majority of people in the country. During an interview with ITNewsAfrica, Vodacom Executive Head for Media Relations Richard Boorman confirmed that…
