Africa gets broadband boost

ITU and Nexpedience, a supplier of proprietary point-to-multipoint broadband infrastructure, are partnering to bring broadband access...

Nokia backs tech hubs for developing world

Nokia, AppCampus and infoDev are collaborating with mobile innovation hubs across Africa, Asia and Latin America...

SAP CEO heralds Skills for Africa

Coinciding with Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe’s visit to Johannesburg, SAP announced the launch of a formal...

GSMA opens in Nairobi

The GSMA has opened a permanent office in Nairobi, Kenya, and will enable the GSMA to...

MasterCard to power Nigerian IDs

The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and MasterCard announced the rollout of 13 million MasterCard-branded...

40 start-ups for DEMO Africa

The DEMO Africa event will be held on 24-25 October 2013 in Nairobi and will launch...

MTN launches LTE in Uganda

MTN has become the first mobile operator in Uganda and one of the very first in...

E-learning comes to Zim

Acer Africa, together with CreAtive Credit and Axiz Workgroup have brought the first technology driven classroom...

Tanzania’s Tigo gets Facebook kudos

Tigo Tanzania was named among the top global socially devoted brands on Facebook in a report...

East Africa ripe with e-commerce opportunities

There is huge demand for e-commerce facilities in East Africa but the market is still in...

Open data platform for Africa

The African Development Bank has launched Open Data Platforms for 20 African countries. The platforms offers...

Africa’s women get mobile boost

Women farmers in the East and Horn of Africa region are set to benefit from practical...

Jasco extends Namibian links to WACS undersea cable

Telecom Namibia has entered into an agreement with NewTelco South Africa to establish a total of...

M-Pesa takes to the skies

Consumers in Kenya and Tanzania can now use M-Pesa to pay for a range of online...

Wi-Fi boosts education

Ruckus Wireless is providing Smart Wi-Fi to students across Africa. Its Smart Wi-Fi technology eliminates many...

MoDe wins top IBM award

IBM has made MoDe the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Based in Nairobi Kenya, MoDe...

Microsoft goes 4Afrika

Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative, a new effort through which the company will engage...

Satellite Internet for Africa

K-NET, an African telecommunications company offering triple-play voice, data and video services across sub-Saharan Africa has...

Baidu partners with Orange

Orange has signed a partnership with Baidu, a Chinese Internet company, to develop a co-branded Internet...

Apps for African cities

Ericsson recently launched a regional competition for application developers, start-ups and visionaries living in sub-Saharan Africa...