Nokia still holds the biggest slice of the global mobile phone market with 40.3 percent share. Samsung is a distant second with 15.2 percent, while Motorola and LG are neck and neck with 9.3 percent and 9.2 percent share, respectively.

Micros South Africa, a provider of Point of Sale and hospitality solutions, has seen a significant improvement in the operations of its Johannesburg-based contact centre that includes the intelligent management of calls and resultant enhanced services since partnering with KSS…

Dell’s net income went down by 17 per cent in the last quarter signaling tough times the company faced during that period.

[Westlake, 1 st September 2008] Networks Unlimited and the PGP Corporation is pleased to announce significant upgrades to the award-winning PGP® Encryption Platform, along with general availability of PGP® NetShare 9.9, PGP Universal™ Server 2.9, PGP® Whole Disk Encryption 9.9,…

From the Telecom industry umpire, the Nigerian communications Commission (NCC) came a big and definite endorsement for Zain Nigeria, for the company’s long standing good customer service pedigree at the weekend in the nation’s capital, Abuja.

ForgeAhead, a specialist Information and Communication Technology (ICT) research company, has just released its annually published SADC ICT report.

The lack of infrastructure in Africa is keeping the information superhighway from much of the continent.

Ghana’s decision to waive taxes on mobile phones is yielding positive results.Mobile phones on the market are now cheaper and more Ghanaians are having access to them.

Preserv8TM, an e-mail archive retention and unified messaging platform developed by Integr8 IS (Pty) Ltd., an associate company within the Integr8 Group, has emerged as the first e-mail archiving “Software plus Services”, independent software vendor certified product. Deon Robertson, CEO…

East Africa’s investment and venture capital markets are set for a revolution with the establishment of the Africa Technology Media and Telecoms (ATMT) Fund.

ONE of Nigeria’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has made a surprise bid to Telkom, proposing to create a pan-African telecoms giant by marrying Telkom’s 50% stake in Vodacom with Nigeria’s cellular operator Globacom. The bid threatens to disrupt a plan already at…

IDS Software, provider of integrated IT solutions for the hospitality industry, has forayed into the Nigerian market to make available its services in that country.IDS Software has partnered Nigerian ValuePlus Software, a banking software solutions company.

ITNewsAfrica.com Africa’s independent media portal fully dedicated to ICT affairs is proud to announce the appointment of its new Online Editor; Samuel Mungadze. Mungadze is a qualified journalist with years of experience in the Media Industry. His working career has…

Owing to the lack of adequate infrastructure and high costs, Malawi still lags behind in the use of internet. Malawi’s minister of labour Davis Katsonga was speaking in the country’s capital Lilongwe during the opening of the 3rd annual connecting…

South African media giant, Naspers, has partnered with a mobile networking and advertising start-up based in Singapore, BuzzCity with a $10 million investment.

Sahara Computers, together with the Mozambican government, has confirmed that work on the planned computer assembly plant is expected to be completed by September 2008.