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Wed, July 17th, 10:30 · Kamau Mbote
ICT essential to successful delivery of various objectives by Africa
ICT sectors will fuel the successful delivery of various goals by African states if they are well supported by governments and infrastructure improvements. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 10:17 · Brandon Gregory
Riverbed launches “Granite” – a server and data consolidation solution
United States application performance company Riverbed Technology has released a new high capacity and high performance appliance, which focuses on the consolidation of large branch offices and large data sets. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 10:17 · Tom Jackson
Orascom bids to renew Telecel licence
Orascom Telecom is to discuss the renewal of Telecel Zimbabwe’s mobile operator’s licence with the Zimbabwean Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development this month. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 10:12 · Paul Adepoju
Report okays Dimension Data’s Public Compute-as-a-Service cloud servers
A report released by The Tolly Group has revealed Dimension Data’s Public Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) cloud servers showed consistently high performance across CPU, memory, storage and networking measures. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 09:35 · Paul Adepoju
First ever Lagos EMC Forum underway
Lagos is hosting the first EMC Forum in West Africa today, giving advice to attendees on how to lead their business transformation with IT. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 09:15 · Richard Cutcher
Sonatel announces rise in first half profits
Sonatel, the Senegalese telecommunications company, has recorded a rise in first half net profit, which the company puts down to increasing mobile data usage. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 08:54 · Brandon Gregory
FHM writers suspended over “correctional rape” joke on Facebook
HM South Africa has suspended Max Barashenkov, features editor for the magazine and editorial assistant Montle Moorosi, for causing a social media uproar through joking about correctional rape. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 08:39 · Kamau Mbote
AU sets ICT week to celebrate organisation’s 50 years
The African Union (AU) has set aside a week in December for member countries to organise activities surrounding the ICT sector on the continent as part of the Africa Union Jubilee celebrations. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 08:28 · Paul Adepoju
Konga.com highlights successes as it celebrates one year anniversary
Nigerian e-commerce site Konga.com is celebrating its one year anniversary and has praised itself for significant growth despite the challenges the industry faces in the West African country. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 08:12 · Richard Cutcher
State investment firm could support Etisalat’s Maroc Telecom bid
Caisse de Dept et de Gestion (CDG), a Moroccan state-owned investment vehicle, may be poised to support Etisalat’s bid for Vivendi’s 53 per cent stake in operator Maroc Telecom. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 07:50 · Richard Cutcher
ICASA misses its own deadline on draft regulations
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has postponed the publication of its draft local loop unbundling regulations, which were meant to be presented yesterday (Tuesday). → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 07:39 · Martin Cheruiyot
Prepaid electricity users prefer mobile money services
A survey conducted by Kenya Power has revealed more than 70 per cent of prepaid electricity users prefer to use their mobile phones to buy electricity tokens than any other method. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 07:17 · Richard Cutcher
Alcatel-Lucents break undersea cable capacity record
Alcatel-Lucent claims to have broken the world record for the volume of data transmitted across a single fibre optic undersea cable. → Read more
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Wed, July 17th, 06:53 · Paul Adepoju
LAGBook restored as Available.fm
The Nwaogu twin brothers, who sold LAGBook to Canada’s Gulf Pearl Ltd earlier this year, have officially launched Available.fm, aimed at becoming Africa’s next social networking giant. → Read more
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Tue, July 16th, 15:47 · Brandon Gregory
Majority of FNB customers still disapprove of redesigned banking site
Scores of First National Bank (FNB) customers are outraged at the redesign of the bank’s online banking platform and continue to express their disapproval through social media sites, especially Facebook. → Read more
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Tue, July 16th, 15:45 · Richard Cutcher
Microsoft joins smart watch race
Reports suggest a Windows 8 smart watch is already being used as a prototype, with the wearable tech device competition hotting up. → Read more
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Tue, July 16th, 15:39 · Tom Jackson
Facebook patches security vulnerability
Facebook has patched a vulnerability that could compromise any account after it was exposed by a security researcher. → Read more
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Tue, July 16th, 15:17 · Richard Cutcher
South Africa to host its first e-commerce conference
The winners of the eighth South African eCommerce Awards will be announced during the country’s first dedicated conference to e-commerce in September. → Read more
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Tue, July 16th, 15:12 · Tom Jackson
Telkom chairman follows CEO in purchasing shares
Telkom chairman Jabu Mabuza has followed the South African operator’s chief executive officer (CEO) Sipho Maseko in buying shares in the company. → Read more
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Tue, July 16th, 15:08 · Nick Sato
DStv to launch more HD sports channels
MultiChoice Africa has announced that DStv will soon be introducing two new high definition (HD) SuperSport channels. → Read more
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