There are 695 million mobile connections in Africa, representing 65% penetration, with one in four people connected by mobile phones and 22 million mobile broadband subscribers. These were just a few statistics communicated to delegates at AfricaCom 2012, hosted in Cape Town.
Introducing keynote speaker Alan Knott-Craig, CEO of South...
Google Kenya is looking to push development of the IT sector in the country and will host an event to promote technology development and application, it said in a statement.
The Internet giant has launched a campaign to “promote innovation and development of local content in key sectors of the country's...
Re-elected American President Barack Obama has not only secured himself another term as the President of the United States, but also tweeted himself into the record books of hugely-popular microblogging site Twitter.
Late on Tuesday night (US time) Obama tweeted a picture of himself embracing his wife Michelle, with the...
Kenyan operator Wananchi Group and Google have entered into a partnership to launch public wi-fi hotspots across the country to in order to boost the local Internet and wireless market.
According to a statement from the companies, the Wazi Wi-Fi service is to place hundreds of wireless hotspots at cafes, restaurants, bars and...
iROKO Partners, one of the world’s largest online provider of African movies and music, has announced a win against a domain name infringing on its trademarks.
In the case iROKO Partners Ltd v. Iroko TV Movies, a complaint was filed based on a domain name dispute over www.irokotvmovies.com. iROKO Partners’...
The European Commission has issued a notice to technology giant Microsoft of its understanding that the company failed to give users a choice of different browsers if they did not want Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as their default internet browser.
The Commission signed a legally binding agreement in 2009 with Microsoft, forcing the company to...
Facebook, Inc. has reported financial results for the third quarter, which ended September 30, 2012.
"As proud as I am that a billion people use Facebook each month, I'm also really happy that over 600 million people now share and connect on Facebook every month using mobile devices," said Mark...
mapIT has announced its offer of free maps to businesses and individuals who wish to use maps on their website. This includes blogs or other social network outlets in order to locate company premises, directions to events, clubs or for which ever purpose that may require a pinpointed descriptive map...
Kenya’s The Star reports that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has welcomed a plan devised by Africa’s Internet community leaders to facilitate greater participation of the African continent in the organisation’s multi-stakeholder model.
Tarek Kamel, senior adviser to the ICANN President, is quoted as saying, “"We are...
International Internet giant Google is urging East African countries to reduce the costs of Internet services in the region in order to promote more local content.
Google’s Field Access Director Kai Wulff said in Uganda that the region “receives unlimited capacity and yet a very small portion of it is being...
Ghana’s ambitious new reporting initiative, the Network of Communication Reporters (NCR) has thrown its weight and support behind boosting coverage and development of the ICT sector in the West African country.
The NCR, made up of journalists specializing in the digital world, technology and telecom, hopes that the new pledge...
The world’s largest social network, Facebook, celebrated a milestone by crossing over the one billion mark of people using the network to connect and communicate.
“This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you're reading this: thank you for giving me and my...
Low cost airline Mango’s entire fleet, comprising six new-generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft, is now online. The last aircraft was fitted with the service last week and assumes service today.
The G-Connect In-Flight Wi-Fi service has exceeded all expectations with over 250 GB (gigabyte) of data usage supported by an above...
To follow on from the last successful mapIT Developers Day held in March this year with over 60 developers attending, mapIT announced that it will host another free Developers Day on 5 October in Johannesburg.
This will be a development session where delegates will learn all about the latest features available on the...
KwaZulu-Natal's capital city this week flipped the switch on the brand-new Durban Internet Exchange (DINX), complementing the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX) and the Cape Town Internet Exchange (CINX), currently the largest two Internet exchange points in Africa.
Managed by the Internet Service Providers' Association of SA (ISPA), the three Internet...
According to the Times of Zambia the government has challenged the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) to strengthen laws governing technology, including Internet usage within the country.
The use of ICT ought to be more protected through appropriate laws and it is the mandate of ZICTA to do...
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