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Thu, November 8th, 10:17 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian WebTV launches portal, corporate service

WebTV, a Nigerian online business TV, has launched a Web portal and corporate services. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 09:00 · Nanine Steenkamp

After South Africa, German T-Systems seeks more African frontiers

German global IT services and consulting company T-Systems is executing further African expansion plans through its South African office, from where the rest of the continent will be approached. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 08:27 · Kamau Mbote

US Quarter 3 retail e-Commerce up 15% than year ago

Online retail spending soared to $41.9 billion compared to the same period last year, the twelfth consecutive quarter year on year growth, a study by comScore reveals. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 07:38 · Vincent Matinde

Hardware innovation the next frontier in Kenya’s ICT sector

Kenya has covered quite some strides in terms of software developments, typically mobile-based apps. Hardware developments however fail to replicate the trend, although this is bound to change. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 06:57 · Tefo Mohapi

Datacentrix announces cloud offering for South Africa

South Africa’s Datacentrix, a provider of high performing and secure ICT solutions, has officially introduced its cloud computing offering aimed at assisting enterprise-level customers in meeting their off-premise outsourcing needs. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:27 · Kamau Mbote

Kaspersky Lab named best anti-malware vendor

Kaspersky Lab is now the world’s leading anti-malware vendor, a survey carried out by Info-tech research group shows. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:26 · Nanine Steenkamp

Latest Opera release much user-friendly to South African users

The latest version of Opera Software, the Opera 12.10, includes a built-in South African website supporting desktop browser. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:17 · Tefo Mohapi

Rand Merchant Bank’s renews IT outsourcing contract with Dimension Data

FirstRand, one of South Africa’s leading financial institutions, has renewed Rand Merchant Bank’s IT outsourcing services contract with Dimension Data, the global IT systems integrator announced today. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:05 · Kamau Mbote

Google event to sharpen business, tech entrepreneurs’ skills

Over 500 key players from various sectors including ICT, publishing, advertising as well as Swahili linguists are held up at the Think With Google event in Kenya’s capital Nairobi discussing the role of technology in the country’s growing economy. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:00 · Tefo Mohapi

DCA’s misplay laughable as ZACR foretells .africa victory

The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) remains confident it will win the rights to administer the africa Top Level Domain (TLD) once the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) process reaches conclusion, as it has the required 60 percent support of African governments for a geographic name domain. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:08 · Gythan Munga

Swedish game maker Mojang to launch urbanization tool in Nairobi

Swedish Indie game maker Mojang in partnership with the UN-Habitat will today at the iHub, a coworking space and business incubator, in Kenya's capital Nairobi unveil a new gaming tool dubbed Block by Block, targeted at mobilizing the youth to participate in urbanization. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 11:55 · Nanine Steenkamp

Tight contest for .africa domain

The .africa domain is being highly contested given the radical changes by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), organisation responsible for managing the Internet's addresses, which had recently opened up name applications. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 11:53 · Kamau Mbote

Retrogressive laws inhibiting Ethiopian Internet penetration

In the last one decade, Ethiopia has experienced the least Internet growth in Africa, statistics from Internetworldstats.com shows. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 09:46 · Tefo Mohapi

NAIL to be acquired by Primedia

South Africa-based media company Primedia has offered to acquire the remaining shares of New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) that it does not own, the two announced jointly through a SENS message. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 07:02 · Tefo Mohapi

Increased uptake of Mimiboards across the continent

Mimiboards, also ‘electronic noticeboard’, has witnessed rapid uptake across Africa despite it still being in Beta stage and with almost no marketing, the Mimiboard network is attracting a million visits per month and could as well reach 5 million visitors a month by February 2013. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 06:48 · Tefo Mohapi

Dimension Data wins ‘Microsoft LAR Partner Of The Year’

Dimension Data South Africa won the Microsoft Large Account Reseller (LAR) Partner of the Year 2012 award at the annual Microsoft Partner Awards event, held last week at Helderfontein Estate. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 13:26 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s GTBank unveils PoS Promo, opens more e-branches

Efforts by Nigeria’s central bank, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to encourage Nigerians to adopt its cashless policy has received a major boost following the introduction a new promo by Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank), a major commercial bank in the country. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 13:05 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian undergraduates get new scheme for PC, Internet acquisition

The Nigerian government has revealed of plans to inaugurate a scheme that will allow students across the nation’s institutions of higher learning to own a computer. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 11:41 · Vincent Matinde

Esquire Technologies launches Windows 8 reseller channel in SA

Following the recent launch of Windows 8 in South Africa, Esquire Technologies, a digital lifestyle focused technology distributor, has hinted on plans to launch the first reseller channel in the country to make the software easily available locally. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 10:50 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan government’s treasury resource management headed for automation

Kenya’s government has issued bids for the setting up of the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) communication agency under the Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure Project, hoped to ensure planning, budgeting, procurement, payments and revenue receipting are automated. → Read more