The Rwandan President, Paul Kagame has challenged African investors to invest more in the ICT sector. Kagame said this yesterday while officiating at the official launch of Chinese owned Star Africa Media at Jali hill in the Rwandan Gasabo district.

Dell has unveiled two new Vostro laptops and two desktops designed specifically for small businesses, governments and educational institutions operating on limited budgets in India and the emerging economies.

Fortinet, a pioneer and provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has announced that global market research firm Frost & Sullivan has bestowed on the company the “Global Competitive Strategy Leadership of the Year” best practices award for enabling profitable…

A paradigm shift of sorts is taking place. Once the key driver of business, Information Technology (IT) is now one, of a few, important enablers. Undoubtedly this is quite a mind shift if compared to the late nineties where the…

Telkom has indicated that discussions with Vodafone, and independent talks with a consortium comprising Mvelaphanda Holdings, Och-Ziff Capital and other strategic funders, were ongoing.

Mumbai based Essar Global Ltd has announced plans to invest $500 million over two years in Kenya’s, Econet Wireless, surpasing the $307-million proposed by  Kenyan government owned Telekom Kenya in May this year. This is the Esar Group’s first major…

Vodacom has announced the acquisition of a shareholding in Storage Technologies Services (StorTech), a managed enterprise data centre services company providing a range of storage and security services. Vodacom purchased 51% of StorTech; approximately 31% will remain with StorTech’s BEE…

According to a July 2008 report from independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Oracle is a leader in enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms.

President of The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), has announce that the organisation has set a target of growing Internet usage in the country to 2 million in the next 18 months.

Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain’s supercomputing powers in silicon — because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads actually make for a small, light, superfast computer.    

Safaricom has acquired Once Communication for 180 million Kenyan shillings (US$2.7 million). This comes a week after France Telecom rebranded its subsidiary, Telkom Kenya, and unveiled a new product range. Business Daily reports, that the bagging of a 51 per…

Intel Corporation’s chief technology officer took a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machine much closer together by 2050. Justin Rattner, during his keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, predicted big changes are…

Partnership signals new growth, opportunity in the printing & technology space Integr8 Telecoms, an associate company within the Integr8 Group, has announced a partnership with global multifunction/ printer provider, Konica Minolta Central. According to the deal, which goes into effect…

In a strongly worded statement, Dr. Paa Kwasi Nduom the CPP flagbearer said said the CPP will take a holistic look at the agreement to ensure that the best interest of the country is served. “To Vodafone I say buyer…

Telkom Kenya has entered into a contract with Apple to sell the iPhone in Kenya to coincide with its Orange mobile service rollout, said Njeri Rionge, chief commercial and marketing officer at Telkom.