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.

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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.

With the likes of Facebook and MySpace many would wonder who would create the next global impression. BeeZbox has definitely broken the jinx as it brings open and flexible social networking services to businesses worldwide.

Technology services company Africa Online has launched an ICT driven corporate social responsibility programme that will see six schools get 20 computers each and an Internet connectivity in the next 12 months.

Mark Zuckerberg estimates an additional 400 workers will be needed to help enable developers to build third-party applications that run on top of Facebook services. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook, on Wednesday said he plans to double…

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer will participate in a keynote conversation with John Battelle today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Operators of small and medium size businesses in Nigeria are to learn new and modern techniques capable of helping their businesses grow, as leading technology distributor,

MWEB, a subsidiary of South African media and communications conglomerate Naspers has bought satellite data transmission services company Afsat communications.

Kigali, Rwanda – Sometime in the next two years, nearly every school in Rwanda – from distant mountain villages to swelling urban areas – will be hooked up to the Internet. And it won’t be some crummy dial-up service. It…