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Adenuga Jnr shines at Nigerian telecoms awards
ONE of Nigeria’s wealthiest entrepreneurs and Telecoms mogul, Mike Adenuga Jnr, has been voted the Pan-African Telecom Investor of the Year by the Nigerian Information Telecommunications Technology Awards (NITTA). Adenuga whose company Globacom made a surprise bid to Telkom in…
NEPAD Submarine Cable & e-Schools Projects Make progress
The NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF) hosted its inaugural Ithuba Business Forum on the 20th of November 2008. The purpose of the forum was to provide a comprehensive update on the status of the submarine cable initiative and e-schools project under…
Bye bye, Blackberry’ for Obama
When he steps into the White House, US president-elect Barack Obama will have to make significant lifestyle changes, among them abandoning his avid use of email and the Blackberry.
Kenya’s Safaricom clinches deal with Sybase 365
KENYA’S leading operator Safaricom, has signed an international SMS inter-operator services agreement with Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase. Safaricom, which is Kenya’s leading operator, with more than 12-million subscribers, is the latest to get into the deal with Sybases…
Nigeria: Allegations of extortion surface in awarding fixed licenses
ALLEGATIONS of extortion in awarding of fixed telecommunications licences are a major concern in Nigeria, as the west African country embarks on advanced telecommunication and mobile phone technology.
EppixComm vows to create ‘Africa tigers’
EppixComm has pledged to create a vast pool of entrepreneurs in Africa; this was revealed by Dr. Saugata Barnerjee last week in Cape Town during the Africa Com conference.
Telkom continues to grow Nigeria market share
LANDLINE services provider Telkom continued to augment its growth in Nigeria, West Africa’s economic hub. The South African based company, which has operations around the continent, said its mobile based transactions, optic fibre deployments had grown tremendously over the last…
Mobile technology usher new hope for Africa’s poor
Mobile technology has been hailed as the latest agent for transformation within Africa, this is according to the panelists’ attending e-strategies conference in Cape Town last week. The gathering which brought together leaders across the continent to discuss the e-governance…
MySpace and RIM shatter download records
MySpace, the world’s premier social network, and Research In Motion (RIM) , a global leader in wireless innovation, today announced record download numbers of the MySpace for BlackBerry® smartphones application in its first week of availability.
Nokia, IBM collaborate on Lotus Notes
Mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia and computer producer, IBM have announced IBM Lotus Notes support, which is expected to benefit millions of Lotus Noets users across the globe. The program, to benefit users of Nokia’s S60-based mobile phones, means that millions…
Corporate world wants to know future of Vodacom, Telkom
AFTER the release of their financial results, the futures of Vodacom and Telkom have come under the spotlight by analysts. Both companies this week issued what should be their final results as “unhappily married companies” but analysts were far more…
NITEL appoints veteran IT expert Ahmed-Rufai
NIGERIA Telecommunications (Nitel) has appointed veteran communications expert, Engineer Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, as its new non-executive director and one of the board members in the telephone provider utility.
Sybase 365 signs agreement with Safaricom
Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging services, has announced its agreement with Safaricom Limited, further consolidating its position as the number one provider of international SMS across the African Continent.
Access Kenya connecting people to internet
ACCESS Kenya has intensified its efforts to improve internet accessibility to home users so as to connect the east African nation with the entire world.
IBM seeks to build computers based on the brain
In an unprecedented undertaking, IBM Research and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems that are expected to simulate and emulate the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its low power consumption and…
MTN subscriber base soars
SOUTH Africa-based cellular network service provider, Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN) believes its recently concluded Home Location Register will be in line with growth in its subscriber based and rising demand for its services.
