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AfricaCom 2014 keynote revealed
Launches, acquisitions, growth, partnerships, broadband, new technologies & services and how to monetize digital platforms: Africa’s digital market is moving by leaps and bounds, and showing the world how innovation is done. This is the underlying premise of the AfricaCom…
MTN launches new reverse call service
MTN has launched another exciting proposition that ensures that all MTN customers who have run out of airtime can stay connected with their loved ones by means of a reversed charged call. The service, called MTN Pay4Me, enables customers who…
Top 5 apps to ease exam stress across Africa
Various students from a multitude educational institutions, across the continent, will preparing to hit the books, internet and other forms of educational resources in order to gain knowledge as well as prepare for their upcoming exams. As exam time is…
Maroc Telecom sees sales growth improve to 4.3% in Q3
Maroc Telecom Group has seen a 4.3 percent increase in its third-quarter revenue to MAD 7.3 billion, which has been anchored by strong growth in international activities and a return to growth in Morocco. According to Telecompaper, the home market…
Bridging the divide: The need for software & business analyst duality
Today’s complex and competitive business landscape is calling for a shift in the role of the software developer as we currently understand it. Increasingly, businesses are looking towards a particular hybrid of software developer and business analyst – someone who…
Nigeria: Bitflux to deploy 2.3GHz spectrum in 2015
Bitflux consortium, winners of Nigeria’s 2.3GHz spectrum license, has revealed that it plans to roll out its services in January 2015. According to the company, it paid USD 23.2 million (N37.1 billion) to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the…
AccessKenya departs from home internet market
AccessKenya has departed from the home internet market. The company has revealed that the move is a strategic one as it will be looking to venture into Uganda. The ISP revealed that it will not connect any new residential customers.…
IT News Africa: Top Stories of the Week
We are almost at the end of October 2014, and what a month it has been. This week in technology we saw Samsung launch the Galaxy Note 4. The Galaxy Note 4 was unveiled at an exclusive event, which was…
Video Interview: Simple supply chain into complex supply chain – SYSPRO
Meryl Malcomess is the Marketing Director at SYSPRO. She has been with SYSPRO for over 18 years and is involved in determining the strategic direction of its marketing activities. By the age of 21 Meryl became both the first female…
Seagate set to invest in Africa
Africa as a region has been attracting attention and focus in the IT sector over the past two years due to the vast growth opportunities. Seagate has placed a three year strategy to grow its presence and investments in Africa, with their key focus being Kenya, Nigeria…
Uganda: Huawei to offer e-lab to school in Lira
Huawei is set to offer an e-lab to the Dr. Obote College School, which is located in the Lira District. According to Huawei Uganda, the e-lab is a reward for the school’s achievement for becoming champions at the recently concluded…
HCL & De Beers Group ink multi-million dollar IT deal
HCL Technologies has inked an IT Infrastructure transformation contract with leading diamond business, the De Beers Group. Leveraging its Enterprise of Future (EoF) offering, HCL is expected to deliver end-to-end IT infrastructure solutions including data centre operations, multi-lingual service desk,…
Telkom unveils SmartInternet Unlimited in SA
Telkom recently launched SmartInternet Unlimited. According to Telkom, the bundle is aimed at business users seeking unlimited mobile data. Telkom also revealed that SmartInternet Unlimited will offer a reliable uncapped data connection over the mobile network, and consistent speeds of…
Video Interview: Top 5 software challenges faced by SA companies – HP
As a veteran employee at HP, Lorna Hardie, in an exclusive interview with IT News Africa, details the top 5 software challenges faced by South African companies. At HP, Hardie is responsible for the end to end Management of the…
Google reveals new Inbox app
Google has gone ahead and launched a new mobile app called “Inbox.” According to Google, the app is only available via invitation for the meantime. The app has been developed by the Gmail team and is intended to better organise…
MTN Uganda receives US$100 000 towards community projects
MTN Group today recognised employees in Uganda for their selflessness and dedication towards improving the lives of ordinary people, including the blind, as part of this year’s 21 Days of Y’ello Care campaign, a popular employee volunteer initiative in MTN…
