Owing to the need to boost the profitability of call centres in Nigeria, the indigenous telecom service provider in Nigeria, Globacom, has introduced profitmax Extra package for call centre businesses.

Online social networking is huge and growing strongly, but what happens when all those virtual friends hit the road? Increasingly, they will be able to keep in touch via mobile versions of their favorite social networks, running on their cellular…

Huge Group on Tuesday announced the appointment of Ken Jarvis, previously chief information officer (CIO) of the South African Revenue Service (Sars), as a non-executive to its board of directors from September 1.

All countries in the SADC region with the exception of one, have increased the ICT budgets by 29% to reflect their growing commitment to e-government.

South Africa has the most number of computers, desktops and laptops combined, in Southern Africa, closely followed by Botswana and Swaziland has the least amount of computers.

With the integration of new features and functions in conjunction of expanding 3G services, the global shipment for mobile phones will grow spectacularly in coming years.

An increasingly diverse spectrum of countries will gather at this year’s GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK as representatives from both emerging and established IT markets seek to take advantage of opportunities from the Middle East.

Thinkorswim, Inc., a financial technology pioneer and the industry-leading online brokerage division of thinkorswim Group Inc. , today announced that thinklink, its sell-side trading, order management and DMA platform, will be used and distributed globally by Marco Polo Network, the…

Panda Security has announced the African launch of its new 2009 consumer solutions: Panda Antivirus Pro 2009, Panda Internet Security 2009 and Panda Global Protection 2009. Through utilising Collective Intelligence, its revolutionary new security model of protection from the cloud,…

NetWorker Fast Start, a tailored version of EMC’s NetWorker software, is now distributed through Channel Data’s network of resellers.

Having just turned seven, South Africa’s low cost airline, Kulula will relaunch itself on Tuesday, 2 September 2008 as part of a strategy to broaden the company’s brand appeal, online presence and product portfolio. Respected as a simple, refreshing and…

A survey of 300 Australian IT administrators found that 88 per cent said they would steal company secrets if they were laid off.

Zain Group is adopting new strategies to increase its share of the Kenyan mobile phone market this year, media reports from East Africa said today. The Kuwait’s telecom group says Zain Kenya did not perform well last year because of…

Imagine one day you walk into a kiosk to buy airtime cards and you are confronted with news that they are ‘out of stock’. With a rise in the value of a mobile and the need to keep talking a…

Zambia’s two dominant mobile operators, MTN and Zain have rejected a request from the regulator to share parts of their network infrastructure, claiming it would be difficult to maintain quality assurance.