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
Africa brings unique experiences and visions to IT and security.
7 Sep 2010 10:45
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc yesterday, 29 July 2010, released a global report on women's online usage titled,
Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet, which provides an in-depth analysis of the female Internet user, highlighting key trends by Internet activity, worldwide region and digital channel.
29 Jul 2010 10:46Vodacom Business has established a new unit in Tanzania. The business unit aims to allow Vodacom Tanzania to provide new technologies and value-add solutions to meet the mobile and fixed voice-, video- and data requirements of Tanzanian businesses.
11 Nov 2009 10:51Tanzania has been urged to develop a strategy to enable disabled people to access information locally and globally.
25 Sep 2008 11:11[Zachary Ochieng] The 5th International Conference on Open Access opened on Wednesday in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, with a call to industry regulators to allow more players on board, if developing nations are to 'leap frog' the traditional technological stages taken by developed countries.
16 Nov 2007 01:40 Nigeria 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
[Timothy Kasonde] The Tanzanian Internet Service Providers Association (TISPA) has launched the second Internet Exchange (IX) service in Arusha, Tanzania. The Tanzania Communicatoins Regulatory Authority (TCRA) made the IX possible by donating equipment and infrastructure to TISPA for its setup.
7 Aug 2007 00:23
[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 16:19
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