MTN South Africa and MediaCompete announced yesterday that they have decided to go their separate ways after 18 months. They also announced that MTN will move to Mindshare, sister company in GroupM. The ‘break-up’ follows a number of meetings to…

Telkom’s technicians had to restore communications at a international media building after thieves allegedly made off with copper cable severing phone links to the BBC, Sky News and other media houses.

IT services and solution specialists Faritec have committed themselves in becoming the leaders in virtualisation over the next two years.

Kenya’s information and communication technology (ICT) companies that have been having a difficult time to raise money and grow financially, have a new financier.

Microsoft appointed Emmanuel Onyeje, to be the new country manager in Nigeria. Emmanuel will be replacing Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu who left the company to pursue personal interests.

Integr8 IT, South Africa’s largest privately owned national BEE ICT network integration and infrastructure management specialist, has won the Networking Infrastructure Solutions Award and Customer Experience Award for 2008 at the annual Microsoft Partner Programme Awards held recently in Durban.

Red Hat has opened an office in South Africa to be able to be able to persuade more companies to use free-to-use open-source systems.

Google has launched its Google news service in English for nine African countries, that has customized versions of its news services will allow these countries to grow their readership.

Nokia is said to be opening a unit in Africa which will allow them to carry out research of their products and services across the African continent.

Virgin Media Group has expanded their relationship with European Computer Telecoms (ECT) that will include enhancements to hosted call centre applications, new applications for call recordings and a strategic partnership.

LG Electronics is considering building a handset plant in Kenya in 2009 with a yearly production capacity reaching about one million handsets. LG has however not revealed all the details concerning this project. It is speculated that LG will build…

Riverbed, the technology and market leader in wide area data services, announced today that its steelhead appliances has been awarded a silver medal in the ‘2008 Editors Best Award’ in the category by Penton Media’s Window IT Pro magazine.

BT, one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries, has announced today that it has signed a five year contract with Gulf DTH, the company that owns and operates Showtime Arabia, leading pay-TV…

YouTube, the first website to get permission, will broadcast news and videos of the Beijing Olympic Games to 77 countries, directed primarily to Africa, Asia and the Middle East. These 77 countries including South Korea, India and Nigeria will have…

The social networking site Facebook is growing rapidly within South Africa. South Africa is amongst the fastest growing countries using Facebook, growing around 33% within the last six months.

The Ghanaian policies have been slammed by Professor Nii Narku Quaynor, the convener of the African Network Operation Group for discouraging local participation in the telecommunication sector .