[Sindy Peters] Western Cape Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism Alan Winde impressed yesterday, 23 May 2013, at the Net Prophet conference with news of exciting tech innovations for the province. Winde's announcement of the Bandwidth Barn ICT business incubator model being spread throughout the rest of Africa was met with resounding applause from attendees at the Artscape.
24 May 2013 19:00
Dr. Judith Rodin, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, on Monday, 13 May 2013, launched a new foundation initiative that will focus on Africa's youth and employment, Digital Jobs Africa.
14 May 2013 11:02
[Robert Sussman] Today's business environment is defined by the strategic application of Unified Communications technology, underpinned by virtual and cloud applications, to establish and sustain operations.
13 May 2013 12:54Alcatel-Lucent and the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium have signed a contract for the maintenance of more than 6,300km of the ACE system linking Africa to Portugal. In commercial service since December 2012, ACE interconnects 15 African countries, seven of which has been connected to the global internet backbone for the first time.
25 Apr 2013 12:36
The country that gave the world two groundbreaking innovations in technology:
M-Pesa, a mobile banking system, and
Ushahidi, a platform for crowdsourcing information during disasters, is now taking its technological talents to new heights.
23 Apr 2013 16:59
[Douglas Kruger] From Amoeba to Icon; where do you currently rank in your industry's natural progression? In this piece, I walk you through the seven stages of development as you strive to position yourself as an industry expert. [video]
13 Apr 2013 06:31
ITNewsAfrica, Africa's technology news provider, has partnered with The Innovation Hub, Africa's first internationally accredited Science Park, to host the continent's premier technology-focused demo conference, Tech Demo Africa Conference scheduled to take place on 21-22 May 2103 at The Innovation Hub, Pretoria, South Africa.
22 Mar 2013 10:37
[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] "Content" is currently on everybody's lips, with everyone from the existing media to brand owners and individuals being encouraged to become content providers. Bizcommunity has been ahead of the content curve for over a decade.
18 Mar 2013 09:03Tunisiana and Orange Tunisia have announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Interoute, the owner operator of Europe's next generation network, for the commissioning of a submarine cable, called Didon, connecting the city of Kélibia, Tunisia to Interoute's pan European fiber optic network, via its landing station in Mazara del Vallo, Siciliy, Italy.
21 May 2013 11:56The effort by card industry stakeholders pushing the adoption of EMV Chip and PIN cards by Kenya banks has received a boost after Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) which had earlier issued a guideline for compliance to the standard for ATMs, supported the campaign urging banks to also issue consumers with EMV Chip and PIN cards.
14 May 2013 13:31Internet entrepreneurs of iROKOtv and Nollywood fame, Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter on Wednesday, 8 May 2013, announced the official launch of SPARK, a $1m-backed company to support and develop aspiring Nigerian tech and internet entrepreneurs.
9 May 2013 13:26Flytxt, the provider of Big Data analytics powered revenue and customer experience management solutions for Cellular Service Providers (CSPs), have announced that it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in Gartner's report "Cool Vendors in Emerging Markets, 2013".
9 May 2013 13:57CA Southern Africa has announced that CA Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Layer 7 Technologies, a provider of Application Programming Interface (API) management and security. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
25 Apr 2013 11:39Repairs to the submarine cable delivering most of WIOCC's connectivity to Europe were completed on 17 April 2013 and WIOCC customer traffic is currently being migrated back to its original routing. During the outage, Africa's carriers' carrier WIOCC was able to provide restoration services to all customers requiring them.
22 Apr 2013 10:49Further to its plan of establishing a premier cloud services marketplace for Africa, SEACOM's Pamoja cloud services business has been officially launched in the strategic East African market of Kenya.
17 Apr 2013 11:06
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