The high-profiled visit of President, Microsoft Africa, Cheick Modibo Diarra to Cameroon, recently, did not only end at the Pavilion of the Unity Palace, where, the distinguished son of Africa and Scientist from Mali held talks with Cameroon’s First Lady,…

In the next five years, our lives will change through technology innovations in the following ways: It will be easy for you to be green and save money doing it: A range of “smart energy” technologies will make it easier…

Rihanna will have to wait until February to see if she takes home a Grammy, but Control Room and MSN today announced the R&B star has already beaten out her competition as the most-streamed performer on MSN Music in Concert…

The largest bank in Nigeria and Africa’s emerging global bank, United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) and LFR Communications, Inc., a ground breaking e-commerce provider, have set in motion technology that will literally shape the future of how e-business is…

Google, Inc. announced Thursday that it is working on a collaborative online encyclopedia that could compete with Wikipedia, the popular user-edited encyclopedia. The “knol” project – named for Google’s shorthand for a unit of knowledge – will allow a user…

Affordable technology and oil revenues have boosted economic growth rates and changed the fate of Africa. Investors have in the past few years been focusing on the markets in China and India – and may not have noticed that these…

Oracle has announced that it has acquired Moniforce, a leading software vendor for monitoring the availability and performance of any web application.

AGIS, IT provider to AG Industries, a group of companies that fabricate value-added glass and aluminium products, components and finished products for wholesale distribution, has contracted Harvey Jones to replace its home-grown, proprietary business intelligence (BI) tool with a Microsoft-based,…

Supporting those in need is something all South-Africans should consider, and why not help those in need when you are in a position to do so.

bidorbuy.com Inc, a Delaware Company and the parent of bidorbuy, one of Africa’s largest online marketplaces, has bought a 22% stake in Jump Internet Technologies, the company which operates Jump Shopping, the South African online shopping comparison web site.

As a well-established feature of the African journalistic landscape, the Siemens Pan Africa Profile Awards for 2007 is now open to entries from journalists whose work has helped make science and technology more easily understood with new categories that aim…

IBM has announced an ambitious new mentoring program that will pair more than 250 of its top scientists and researchers with university students throughout Africa. Called “Makocha Minds” (after the Swahili word for “teacher”),

Former top officials of the Federal Government who were alleged to have received about 10 million euros as bribes from the German telecommunications company Siemens will soon land in hot soup as President Umaru Yar’adua yesterday ordered security agencies to…

Google has signed up MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, and Bebo, a favourite among UK teenagers, to its new OpenSocial system that aims to link services on some of the web’s most popular sites.

Kenya is to host the third African Outsourcing and Contact Centre in Nairobi from November 27 to 28. The two-day meeting has been sponsored by the newly formed Kenya ICT Board to the tune of Sh1.5 million.

Four years ago we saw the launch of face book and already there are over 50 million people singed up and around 200,00 joining a day. But what if you want to leave? Is it as simple as just deleting…