The Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation announced on Tuesday, 8 March 2011, that it is awarding five grants totalling US$5 million to African projects in support of improving internet access and to enable African countries to participate in and contribute to the global Internet. One grant will assist in expanding the online Nelson Mandela archive.
9 Mar 2011 09:56
[Thabiso Mochiko] Waste is a growing challenge in SA and Africa and needs to be addressed by the public and private sector. MTN has partnered with the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) to manage the safe disposal and recycling of electronic goods such as cellphones.
28 Feb 2011 09:48The sixth Maputo International Advertising Festival will take place from 25-27 May 2011, AMEP - the Mozambican Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations Association announced yesterday. The festival recognises advertising agencies, producers and communications companies worldwide especially from Africa and the Indian Ocean regions.
23 Feb 2011 07:22
[Shaune Jordaan] Google Instant search is annoying for some, and useful to others. One fact does remain - it runs on the same search engine and the search results are exactly the same. The difference it brings is in how the user reacts to the results they see.
22 Feb 2011 12:12U2's Cape Town concert scheduled for today, Friday 18 February 2011, will be broadcast live on Highveld and KFM in South Africa, alongside a live stream on DStv.com, throughout Africa.
18 Feb 2011 08:18
ATLANTA, US: CNN has announced the launch of a new initiative for journalism students, called CNN iReport University, linked to iReport, the network's user-generated news community.
16 Sep 2010 10:35
WASHINGTON, DC: The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), late last week, announced the fourth-round winners of its Africa Rural Connect (ARC) online contest. The first place winner is from Sweden while the second and third place winners are from Malawi and Tanzania.
25 Nov 2009 10:13PARIS: Alcatel-Lucent announced yesterday, 3 September 2009, that it has signed a €21 million contract with Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique (TDM), the Mozambican state-owned telecommunications company, to deploy the third phase of Mozambique's national transmission network.
4 Sep 2009 11:53
Sahara Computers, together with the Mozambican government, has confirmed that work on the planned computer assembly plant is expected to be completed by September 2008.
29 Aug 2008 12:09Nigeria has beaten South Africa in the roll-out of the DVB-H mobile TV... Details Nigeria, MultiChoice Africa's local business partner in Nigeria, recently launched Africa's first commercial mobile broadcast TV service in the city of Abuja.
30 Aug 2007 07:55
[David Kezio-Musoke] ICT ministers from 20 African countries will gather in Malawi to thrash out areas of disagreement regarding the construction of the Eastern Africa Sub-Marine Cable System (EASSy).
1 Jun 2007 16:19Herakles Telecom has awarded the Sea Cable System (SEACOM) marine survey to Tyco Telecommunications, a business unit of Tyco Electronics. The 13,000km marine survey commences the development of the undersea fibre-optic network which will provide high capacity bandwidth connectivity between South Africa, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, India and Europe.
20 Apr 2007 16:32
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