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Nigeria: Airtel reveals Catapult-a-Startup initiative
Airtel Nigeria has revealed an entrepreneurial initiative named ‘Catapult-a-Startup,’ a platform which aims to inspire innovation and assist start-up mobile app developers towards actualising their business goals and dreams. With this initiative, Airtel is offering a platform for budding mobile app developers to receive…
Master the course with the TomTom Golfer
TomTom has launched the all new TomTom Golfer, a GPS sports watch designed to make it easy for golfers to improve their game. Unique course graphics clearly show accurate distances to hazards and layups, and the best approach to the…
PlayStation 4 20th anniversary console revealed
It’s been 20 years since the launch of the original PlayStation, which means that the team at Sony PlayStation needed to do something in order to celebrate this momentous occasion. The team over at Sony have revealed the 20th Anniversary…
Liquid Telecom reveals satellite reseller programme in SA
Liquid Telecom South Africa has revealed details of its new reseller programme. According to the telco it has established the programme in response to increasing demand for high-speed broadband from enterprises and individuals across South Africa and as part of…
IT is a strategic lever for business growth in Nigeria
According to a recent survey conducted by EMC Corporation, over 90 per cent of business leaders in Nigeria have identified information technology as a strategic lever for business growth. The survey of 528 business and technology decision makers across Nigeria’s…
Is Big Data making its way to the banking sector?
In the era of information, the bank with the most actionable insights is the winner. The age of “Big Data” has begun to slowly filter through into the banking environment, with banks being able to design customer-centric solutions using statistical…
New mobile payment platform launches in Middle East
Arpu Plus has launched a new payment platform dubbed “T-Pay.” According to the company, it has already partnered with 19 mobile operators from 12 countries around the Middle East region in order to offer over 200 million mobile subscribers the…
Millicom CEO steps down
Millicom CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht has revealed that he will be stepping down from his position at the end of 2014. According to Albrecht, the reason for the move is due to the fact that he wants to develop a number…
MTN apologises to customers for network disruptions
According to MTN, the company has conveyed its sincerest apologies to customers that may have been affected by service disruptions in the last two weeks. According to the network, as MTN adapts to meet the increasing quality and capacity demands…
Top IT predictions for 2015
Network functions virtualization takes off, even without SDN. 2015 will see continued development of SDN technologies, and buyer confusion will not abate as the incumbent switch and router vendors jockey for position. But NFV, already being widely deployed into service…
Kenya launches ICT internship programme
The Private Sector as well as the Kenyan Government have come together and developed a programme to build ICT capacity in the public sector as well as improve upon efficiency and service delivery. The Presidential Digital Talent Programme (PDTP) is…
Nigerian Government sets up ICT content development office
The Nigerian Government has revealed that it has concluded plans to establish the Office of Nigerian Content Development in ICT. According to the Government, the office is expected to promote local IT products and services in Nigeria as well as…
Ticketless IT: From Tribal Knowledge to Connected Intelligence
Today we are faced with a generation of users for whom search and social collaboration is expected as standard. As digital natives, they don’t have the time or patience for lengthy waits while IT gurus slowly get to grips with…
Should SMEs turn to the cloud to avoid data loss?
Cloud-based and hosted services are showing excellent growth in South Africa with small businesses and startups leading the move. IDC has predicted that the value of cloud services in South Africa will reach $230m by the end of 2014, and…
Airtel launches 4G service in Africa
Airtel has launched, according to the company, Africa’s first 4G service in the Seychelles. According to the mobile operator, it has launched the service on a network based on FD-LTE, making the Seychelles amongst the first countries in sub Saharan…
IS & Etisalat to extend MPLS network in Africa
Internet Solutions (IS) and Etisalat have signed a bilateral partnership agreement which will extend the reach of both companies’ Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network coverage across the Middle East Region and Africa. According to both companies, this partnership will…
