A summit to discuss e-content strategies for the West African region under the theme:”Improving Digital Lifestyles in Sub-Saharan Africa” is due in Benin.

Workgroup has announced the local availability of WinZip 11.1 stressing the importance of user licensing of the update. WinZip 11.1 is an updated version of WinZip 11.0. It has been Vista certified, incorporating a Vista-style toolbar and program icons, Vista…

Novell distributors, Workgroup, have announced the availability of paravirtualised network and block device drivers that will allow Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003/XP to run unmodified in Xen virtual environments on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell, operating on Intel-based server…

The Business Objects division at Workgroup has announced that Crystal Reports Server will be bundled with a new Business Intelligence (BI) appliance launched recently by IBM. IBM Balanced Warehouse C1000 is an information integration, content delivery and reporting solution for…

STL is pleased to release a geodatabase gathered over a period of 2years containing the location of over 2,000 operational sites for MTN, about 1,400 sites for Celtel and some 1,600 sites for Globacom . It contains such information as…

The infamous DVD Jon, who cracked the DVD encryption key eight years ago, has released software on his blog that he claims bypasses the iPhone’s activation procedure. To enable the iPhone, all users are forced to activate the unit using…

ISO.Net (), the World’s first and only solar-powered hosting company, today announced that it was selected by Live Earth producers to host the liveearth.org Web site. As the leading environmentally friendly Web hosting company, AISO.Net custom designed a dedicated, reliable…

Panda Software has entered a commercial alliance with Nero AG through which the two companies will jointly promote their solutions. Thanks to this agreement, Nero users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will have access to free versions of…

Addis Ababa, July 06: Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Ethiopia is benefiting from India’s capacity building and technology transfer assistance. Holding talks with the Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee here Thursday, Zenawi said various Ethiopians are receiving educational trainings…

Make no mistake, Apple’s iPhone is a consumer electronics product. It’s an uber-phone aimed at digital enthusiasts who want to use their phone to have a better internet and computing experience on the go. Of course, no-one wants and needs…

Less than fifteen years after the genocide that destroyed much of Rwanda’s human capital, infrastructure, and socio-economic fabric, the country is set to become sub-Saharan Africa’s hub for information and communications technology (ICT). Thanks to ambitious government initiatives in developing…

A new regulatory framework is needed to encourage financial transactions by mobile phones and transform access to financial services in developing countries, claims a new policy report ‘The Transformational Potential of M-Transactions’ , published today (4 July 2007) by Vodafone…

Cairo: The suave, silver-haired Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist and secretary-general of the Supreme Antiquities Council, Egypt, counter-part of the Archaeological Survey of India, is the pop icon of heritage infotainment. He spoke to Narayani Ganesh. Your team identified the 3,500-year-old mummy…

Egypt is set to receive a second fixed services operator, according to a report by TeleGeography.com. The Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dr Tarek Kamel has announced that the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has set the terms…

A new regulatory framework is needed to encourage financial transactions by mobile phones and transform access to financial services in developing countries, claims a new policy report ‘The Transformational Potential of M-Transactions’ , published 4 July 2007 by Vodafone in…

The telecommunications sector pricing war that has been raging between the two mobile phone firms, Safaricom and Celtel, is set to climb a notch with this afternoon’s launch of Telkom Wireless, Telkom Kenya’s Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-based service that…