LONDON: Popular search engine major Google is hoping to launch a mobile phone by early next year that will allows users to surf the internet on the move. According to The Telegraph , the company hopes that its “GPhone” will…

Celtel International is relocating its Africa office to Kenya due to the country’s stable economy. Celtel Kenya CEO, Mr David Murray, said Celtel picked Kenya because of her economic stability and great infrastructure. “The relocation is a reflection of the…

It’s a wrap. The leading telecommunications network in the Africa and the Middle East, MTN, has officially taken over Scancom Ghana Limited, operators of Areeba Ghana. Areeba Ghana is now officially MTN Ghana. Whats new? Tariff segments: MTN has segmented…

Mabopane – Learning and teaching at the Abel T Motshoane School in Mabopane, North of Pretoria has been transformed with the mobile e-learning infrastructure. The school is the first in the country to have this wireless network technology. Entering the…

Kenya’s cyber law, when enacted, could be adopted as a model law for other countries within the East African Community (EAC) — Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi — which are yet to enact such kind of legislation to give regulatory…

Kenya’s cyber law, when enacted, could be adopted as a model law for other countries within the East African Community (EAC) — Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi — which are yet to enact such kind of legislation to give regulatory…

SOUTH African companies are beginning to follow their international counterparts in blocking workers‘ access to popular social networking site Facebook. They cite concerns over productivity – but some experts defend the site, saying it holds huge potential as a business…

Microsoft Corp. welcomed the decision, announced today by the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG), to introduce a new work item for the standardization of Microsoft’s® HD Photo file format. Formal balloting of this work item is being submitted to the…

A project aimed at training, paying and providing advanced mobile phone equipment to African journalists will launch today in four separate countries. Voices of Africa will provide reporters in South Africa, Mozambique, Ghana, and Kenya with state-of-the-art mobile phones to…

Panda Software is now Panda Security. This change of brand reflects many other major changes taking place in Panda, both technologically and in terms of organization. Panda has taken a step forward. Just as it is a pioneer in preventive…

The UK-based web hosting company LiquidNet Ltd. (www.liquidnetlimited.com) announces that it has teamed up with the Florida-based mobile solutions company Netcom Consulting, Inc. (www.netcomconsultinginc.com) to offer its webmasters the opportunity to enter the mobile text message marketing field through the…

Digital marketing agency Stonewall+ recently launched an innovative viral video campaign for South Africa’s largest online marketplace – bidorbuy. The campaign, “Crazy For Cash” allows web users to enter an online competition on www.crazyforcash.co.za and submit their video or photograph…

The Angolan minister of Science and Technology, João Baptista Ngandajina, will represent the country at the meeting of SADC’s Ministers of Science and Technology, which will take place in Pretoria, South Africa, from 30 July to 02 August, Angop has…

Globacom, Interswitch, Progenics, Linkserve and MTN Nigeria are among 50 technology companies listed in West Africa’s top 50 technology service providers. Also on the list are notable players such as Nokia, HP, Cisco, Systemspecs, 21st Century Limited, Zinox, Samsung, Omatek,…

Google is opening an office in South Africa to be managed by Stafford Masie, who has headed the local operation of the US computer group Novell for the past four years. The US search-engine giant said yesterday: “Google wants to…

Stratus and InterSwitch claim 92% of the banking market in Nigeria, and aim for rest of Africa. Johannesburg – 01st August 2007 – Stratus Technologies, worldwide provider of continuous availability solutions, has announced that its West African partner, InterSwitch, has…