JOHANNESBURG: The Africa Top Level Domains (AfTLD) organisation on Wednesday, 9 March 2011, announced its decision to seek a mandate from the African Union Commission (AUC) and to apply to ICANN to manage the .africa registry.
10 Mar 2011 08:37
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
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 10:46
According to Ericsson and MTN Ghana, the companies have successfully trialled UMTS 900 MHz for the first time in Africa. UMTS 900 MHz extends mobile broadband coverage into suburban, rural and offshore areas, offering coverage up to 200km.
15 Mar 2010 07:55Working with the Millennium Villages Project, in collaboration between the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Millennium Promise and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ericsson and Zain have deployed mobile communications services in the Amansie-West district of the Ashanti region of Ghana.
9 Nov 2009 12:40[Sylvain Béletre] Ghana wants to position itself as one of the premier BPO destinations in Africa. The first GASSCOM International BPO Conference And Exhibition was held at La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra, Ghana on 22 - 23 July 2009 under the theme "Outsourcing to Ghana, Africa's Golden Gateway".
3 Aug 2009 12:01 The Ghanaian government has reiterated it's commitment to a comprehensive ICT system in the education sector, Dr Joseph S. Annan, Deputy Minister of Education, made the pledge on Wednesday, 8 July 2009 in Accra.
10 Jul 2009 09:43...as he unveils vision to provide quality services, the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Telecom (GT), David Venn, has unveiled his vision for the Ghanaian telecommunications industry, and promised to introduce innovative and quality products and services onto the market.
26 Nov 2008 11:41
[Greenpeace International] The latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution is in Ghana. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals.
6 Aug 2008 10:17
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