Nigeria, Egypt and other African countries will over the next five years benefit from $1 billion or N128 billion Intel Corporation’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) initiative.

Dimension Data Middle East & Africa has announced its acquisition of Accelon (Pty) Ltd, a communications services company operating in Nigeria and Ghana for an undisclosed sum.

Microsoft Corp. and International Trade Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Connect Africa summit in Kigali, Rwanda on Tuesday, so as to be able to expand the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure.

The bad news is that an October 2007 Netcraft.com web server survey found nearly 143 million websites, adding up to untold billions of webpages. The good news is that only a tiny percentage of these site owners actively promote their…

Microsoft Corp.’s annual Next-Gen PC Design Competition is open for online entry submission until 11:59 p.m. EST Dec. 14. The competition aims to encourage ongoing enthusiasm for Windows-based PCs by engaging the imagination and creativity of the industrial design (ID)…

Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites have become the top tool for hiring IT staff, a new survey among recruitment companies reveals.

The Connect Africa Leaders’ summit kicked off in the Rwandan capital Kigali Monday. The conference focuses on investment and development in Africa’s burgeoning telecommunications industry. For VOA, Noel King has more in this report from Kigali.

At the ITU Connect Africa Conference in Kigali, Rwanda today Nokia Siemens Networks spoke about how it is enabling Africans everywhere to gain access to connectivity.

Microsoft has beaten out rival Google in a battle to invest in socializing Web site Facebook, agreeing to pay $US240 million for a stake in the Web phenomenon and expand a deal to sell advertising. Google and Microsoft, now rivals…

You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world” using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation.

How do you build a list of subscribers to your e-mail newsletter? Here are 12 methods. Newsletter Sign-Ups from Your Website All e-mail management services provide the HTML for a subscription form which you can paste into your webpages, so…

A new fad is sweeping across Silicon Valley, causing excitement, confusion and hyperbole not seen since the dot-com bubble. It began in May, when Mark Zuckerberg, 10 days after turning 23, took the stage in a San Francisco warehouse and…

Former Google employees say that the company’s founders are concerned about the prevention and extermination of evil. At the last day of the Web 2.0 Summit, attendees learned that having their genome mapped will set them back US$300,000 and that…

The one day conference was organized by the SBTS Group on Thursday this week and was held in the capital Freetown.SBTS held a one day conference here on Financial Technologies.

Google realized that it has ignored the social space for too long and that its services could be more useful if they had a social touch. After launching a site for sharing web pages with your friends and adding profiles…

Membership growth in social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook in all regions is expected to peak in 2009 and level off by 2012.