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Mon, October 22nd, 14:24 · Tefo Mohapi

Dr Mathews Phosa steps down as chairman of SA’s JSE-listed EOH

In a SENS message released last week Friday, Dr. Mathews Phosa revealed that he will be stepping down as the chairman of EOH, a South African JSE-listed ICT company. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 14:03 · Tefo Mohapi

Significant earnings boost for Mix Telematics expected

Mix Telematics (MiX), the South Africa-based vehicle monitoring and fleet management solutions provider, has said it expects a significant rise in its earnings for the half year ended September 30, 2012. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 12:55 · Elly Okutoyi

Unreliable Internet hindering Kenyan superstore’s online retailing

Unstable Internet connectivity has been blamed for slowing down the launch of Kenya’s largest retail chain store Nakumatt’s online shopping website. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 12:53 · Tefo Mohapi

Death of print media as Newsweek goes exclusively digital

World famous print magazine Newsweek last week announced it would transition to an all-digital format in early 2013, with the December 31 issue set to be their last print edition in the United States. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 11:47 · Tefo Mohapi

Yahoo announce ex-Google executive as Chief Operations Officer

Yahoo! Inc. last week announced that Google’s ex-Vice President of partners business solutions, Henrique de Castro, has been appointed as its chief operating officer (COO), reporting directly to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 11:34 · Tefo Mohapi

ICANN signs agreement to expand L-Root servers to Africa

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global Internet domain name authority, has signed a partnership agreement with the Africa Network Information Center (AFRINIC) towards identifying additional potential locations for the expansion of L-Root anycast instances in Africa. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 09:03 · Paul Adepoju

Top opposition party in Nigeria joins call to outlaw cybercrimes

Growing concerns over the rise of cybercrimes in Nigeria have now led to the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the nation’s top opposition party, condemning the government’s reluctance to outlaw the crimes, as recently voiced by the country’s ICT stakeholders. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 08:38 · Tom Jackson

SA university launches new courses to fill ICT skills gap

South African university College Campus, based in Pretoria, has launched three new technological degrees seeking to fill the widening skills gap in the country when it comes to ICT. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 08:34 · Tefo Mohapi

Gartner honours SA’s Dimension Data as world cloud solutions leader

South Africa’s Dimension Data, a global ICT solutions provider, has today announced it has been recognised by global IT research leader Gartner as a leading ICT company after recent positioning in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 08:07 · Vincent Matinde

East Africa’s top securities exchange geared towards virtual trading

A new virtual platform expected to be launched later this year will enable users to trade in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), East Africa’s leading securities exchange, from the comfort of their homes. → Read more
Sun, October 21st, 09:57 · Gythan Munga

Looking for “thinspiration”: How the Internet encourages eating disorders

While the occurrence of eating disorders is based on a mixture of genetic, hormonal, social and cultural factors loading the proverbial gun, there is one type of social media phenomenon which clearly acts as a deadly “trigger”. As internet penetration and social media use increases in Africa, the continent needs to be prepared to stamp out any pro-eating disorder sites that rear their ugly heads. → Read more
Fri, October 19th, 12:59 · Vincent Matinde

Interactive multimedia guide of Cape Town launched

Tourism Radio, a South African audio tours firm, has launched a comprehensive Walking Tour of Central Cape, a multimedia guide for tourists, in partnership with Cape Town Tourism. → Read more
Fri, October 19th, 12:19 · Tom Jackson

Namibia’s MPs to use tablets in Parliament

Namibia’s parliamentarians will shortly be using tablets rather than paper to conduct their business in the National Assembly as the country looks to implement an e-government programme. → Read more
Fri, October 19th, 08:59 · Tefo Mohapi

Dark Fibre Africa announces affordable shaped fibre offering

Local open-access dark fibre infrastructure provider Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) has introduced an affordable shaped fibre offering, hoping it will “transform the way people do business in future.” → Read more
Fri, October 19th, 06:30 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s industry regulators and ICT firms partner on capacity development

A number of ICT stakeholders in Nigeria have partnered with the ICT Publishers Alliance to facilitate capacity building in the utilisation of the latest ICT tools in the processing and management of news among West African journalists. → Read more
Fri, October 19th, 06:15 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s ICT stakeholders decry government’s reluctance to outlaw cybercrimes

The inability of the Nigerian government to enact a law outlawing the increasing number of cybercrimes in the country has become a growing concern for stakeholders in the Nigerian communications industry, says David Isiavwe, a member of the Nigerian Cybercrime Working Group (NCWG). → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 14:03 · Tefo Mohapi

ICANN reveals initiative to increase its presence across Africa

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced a new initiative to increase Africa’s involvement the at the organisation’s 45th public meeting in Toronto, Canada. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 13:34 · Paul Adepoju

2012 e-Nigeria conference slated for Abuja this month

The 2012 edition of e-Nigeria, an annual event connecting stakeholders in the Nigerian IT sector, will this year have the nation’s minister in charge of the communications technology ministry Omobola Johnson and Oby Ezekwesili, a former vice president of the World Bank, as lead discussants. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 11:43 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenya’s information ministry to endorse social media clubs for colleges

Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communications is set to endorse social media clubs in the nation’s universities to promote social media as a tool for learning and communication by both lectures and students. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 10:01 · HumanIPO

Organisation uses Internet to fund surgeries in Sierra Leone

Samahope.org, an organisation that collects donations for patient surgery through partnerships with local hospitals, is now seeking to use the Internet to source for funds. → Read more