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Ogilvy introduces new search software to SA
Following the launch of Neo in South Africa earlier this year, Ogilvy’s own digital media agency is now tapping into its abundance of international resources. With 39 offices across 32 countries worldwide, Neo South Africa is able to tap into…
Nigeria’s Mobitel appoints new COO
MOBITEL Limited has announced the appointment of Tomi Davies as the new Chief Operations Officer (COO) for the company. Davies is a senior Information Technology (IT) executive with management experience from Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange. The new…
Nigerian IT agency generates N14.5bn from IT
THE National Information Technological Development Agency (NITDA) has generated over N14.5 billion (USD $97million) from its Information Technology Levy. Government imposed a one per cent Profit Before Tax on companies engaged in Information Technology (ICT), telecommunications and other business establishments…
Alvarion deploys wireless 4G in Cameroon and Nigeria
ITNewsAfrica.com had a chat with Winston Smith, Managing Director for South Africa and Nigeria (SAN) region about the company’s recent 4G wireless broadband developments in the African region. ITNewsAfrica.com: Can you give an overview of Alvarion’s recent wireless deployments in…
Interview: Motorola turns to WiMAX for Africa
At the recent AfricaCom 2010, ITNewsAfrica.com caught up with Noel Kirkaldy, Director Solutions Marketing Networks at Motorola. ITNewsAfrica.com: What is Motorola’s strategy for Africa in the coming years? Noel Kirkaldy: The African market has done very well in establishing voice…
Aviat Networks: Africa needs a wireless backhaul
ITNewsAfrica.com interviewed Patrick Martini, Director Marketing for EMEA Region at Aviat Networks about his company’s African strategy. ITNewsAfrica.com: What are Aviat Network’s recent developments in Africa? Patrick Martini: As a recent development, we have just launched in Africa a longhaul,…
Huawei Symantec backs December 8th Innovation Dinner
Huawei Symantec throws its weight behind Innovation Dinner series. New venue secured for future events. Africa’s leading bi-monthly ICT business dinner series has secured Technology giant HuaweiSymantec as sponsor for the December 8th, 2010 edition of the Innovation Dinner to…
KDN employee acquitted of vandalism charges
A Kenya Data Networks (KDN) employee accused by telecoms rival Telkom Kenya of vandalising Telkom Kenya’s fiber cables was acquitted of all charges by the High Court sitting in Eldoret. The employee who was accosted on October 7, 2009 by…
Interview: 3G needs to take off in Africa
At the 2010 AfricaCom conference and exhibition in Cape Town, Lars Linden, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa region at Ericsson, talked to ITNewsAfrica.com about Ericsson’s activities in the region and why wireless 3G is Africa’s best bet for now. ITNewsAfrica.com: What…
Aptilo enables Ghana’s first 4G network
Aptilo Networks, a leader in pre-integrated solutions for control of billing, user services and access in wireless networks including Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE, has been selected by DiscoveryTel Ghana (DTG), a licensed data services provider in Ghana, for the deployment…
IT the solution to high unemployment
INFORMATION technology (IT) is the only solution to the rising unemployment in South Africa and the rest of the African continent, an African National Congress (ANC) senior official has said. Addressing a three day Information Communication Technology (ICT) conference at…
HP takes on fraudsters in Angola
HP has emphasised its increasing success against the significant threat of counterfeit printing supplies in Africa, stressing the importance of striking back at the organised criminal networks behind this illegal activity. “There is no shortage of unscrupulous thieves who want…
New Amazon Customer Service Center Opens in Cape Town
Amazon has announced that its new customer service center in Cape Town, South Africa, has opened and is actively responding to phone inquiries from customers this week. The center has hired approximately 150 new employees for its launch this year…
Interview: MTN continues African expansion
Johnny Aucamp, General Manager for Strategic Relations and Business Development in Africa, MTN Business, talked to ITNewsAfrica.com about recent developments on the continent. ITNewsAfrica.com: What is MTN Business’s African strategy, taking into account your recent acquisition of UUNET Zambia? Are…
Ministers pledge support to the CTO’s fund
At least thirty ICT ministers and departmental heads from over twenty two Commonwealth nations participated in a meeting organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) at the recent ITU’s Plenipotentiary Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, to adopt CTO’s Commonwealth Telecom Development…
Damaged cable costly for Safaricom
LEADING Kenyan mobile telephony provider Safaricom has apologized to its subscribers for the recent failure of one of its fibre optic cables. The outage was caused by a fibre cable cut at Museum Hill in Nairobi on Tuesday night during…
