CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Newspapers hoping to retain their readers and survive in the technological age must venture into the online and mobile phone spheres, a World Association of Newspapers (WAN) meeting heard Tuesday.

As all telecom investments now seem to be heading the way of rural communities, the second national operator, Globacom, said, last week, that in continuation of its rural telephony project, it is undertaking a rapid roll out in rural communities…

GLOBAL technology giant, Cisco, has indicated its readiness to work with the new government of Nigeria by way of helping to build a new workforce through training, and also helping to create a new communications and technology environment, using its…

First commercially available surface computer from Microsoft breaks down barriers and provides effortless interaction with information using touch, natural gestures and physical objects. Picture a surface that can recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows…

The new release of Multimatics’ Xtel system features significantly improved speed of report generation and processing, a private and business number predictor and generally enhanced versatility.

They are all ‘geniuses’ some being outstanding scientists, others accomplished investors, researchers, politicians and think-tanks, not to forget entertainers. These ‘ticking brains’ are ‘setting camp’ in Arusha, where for a period of five days they will be setting a new…

“Developments around television are affecting the global broadcast market and causing a fundamental blurring of the lines which previously demarcated the providers of certain services. Essentially, as convergence takes hold, the traditional business models of mobile telephone operators, Internet service…

Ministers of ICTs from about 20 African countries have been invited for a special meeting that is expected to iron out controversies surrounding the ratification of the NEPAD ICT broadband network (NIBN) project. The project includes the Eastern Africa Sub-Marine…

Google is keeping a close eye on a small, suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on the world leader. MyLiveSearch, which plans to go live as a public beta in a few weeks,…

The product is called FOSS-in-a-box, an acronym for Free and Open Source Software. This concept is set to revolutionise the way that small to medium sized enterprises (SME’s) across South Africa and the rest of Africa view the value added…

NokusaEI is once again offering AIIM’s internationally recognised professional ECM certification programme. NokusaEI will be delivering the complete range of modules for the ECM certificate course which has been developed by AIIM (www.aiim.org), the international authority on enterprise content management.

Nigeria has launched its own satellite communications, NIGCOMSAT. What effect do you think this will have on the nation’s telecoms terrain and economy? The launch of NIGCOMSAT is a major milestone in the history of our great country. In short,…

MTN South Africa says that it has launched Push-to-Talk (PTT) services on its network, running over GPRS via Nokia handsets. Buckley McGrath, MTN Executive, Corporate Business Unit commented: “The Push to Talk technology has been through a successful pilot phase…

Internet voice and video calls are on the cards for some PlayStation Portable (PSP) owners later this year. BT said last week that it is developing a software-based Internet telephony package for the portable device. The system will allow users…

Kenya gets an opportunity to examine its achievements in the information and communication technology industry when it hosts an e-learning conference this week. The conference, e-Learning Africa, will provide a forum for the country’s ICT professionals to share ideas and…

TeleMasters has announced a record breaking R8 million in savings in telecoms costs for its customers over the month of April. This announcement is a first for the company, which specialises in Least Cost Routing. TeleMasters listed on the JSE’s…