[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 19:00Tunisiana 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 11:56
[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 12:54Flytxt, 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 13:57Internet 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 13:26Alcatel-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 12:36CA 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 11:39
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 16:59Repairs 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[Kenan Kalagho] The Tanzania government is still grappling with its insistence that the county switch from analogue to digital broadcasting before most of the country was ready on 31 December last year.
9 Apr 2013 11:31 
The fourth annual African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF), organised by the Internet Society, will be held from 3-5 September 2013 in Casablanca, Morocco. A unique regional forum, AfPIF facilitates discussions on African internet infrastructure challenges.
4 Apr 2013 14:16
Q-KON, a Pan-African distributor of Alvarion solutions, has provided Alvarion Wi-Fi technology to Malawi's Bishop Mackenzie International School (BMIS), enhancing the academic institution's existing network and equipping it with valuable wireless connectivity.
28 Mar 2013 11:33
Advanced technology trade show Mediatech Africa will take place from 17-19 July 2013 at The Coca-Cola Dome, Johannesburg. With a diverse selection of products and the latest technologies in media and entertainment, the trade show will host industry heavyweights and enthusiasts in the live entertainment, audio visual and broadcasting arenas.
28 Mar 2013 09:47
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