Samsung celebrates 30 million global sales of Galaxy S, Galaxy S II

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA/JOHANNESBURG, SA: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading mobile handset provider, has announced that its Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones have achieved a combined total of 30 million global sales. 21 Oct 2011 10:58

CMOs and Twitter - have they joined the celebration?

[Willem Smit] LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: Twitter users now send more than 140 million Tweets a day. With more than 20% of the tweets being related to products and/or brands, this means that every day 28 million tweets potentially concern your brand or company. 4 Apr 2011 10:10

eCommerce sites urged to clean up content before Google's 'Panda' goes global

LONDON, UK: Hot at its heels of an algorithm update to combat duplicate content last month, Google has followed up with "Panda", another algorithm change that hits purveyors of "low-quality content." 11 Mar 2011 11:32

January 2011 US online video rankings

RESTON, US: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 171 million US Internet users watched online video content in January for an average of 14.5 hours per viewer. The total US Internet audience engaged in nearly 4.9 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month. 17 Feb 2011 06:32

Lenovo, NEC create Japan's largest PC group

TOKYO, JAPAN: Lenovo and NEC Corporation (NEC) have announced a strategic relationship that creates a joint venture between the two companies and forms the largest PC group in Japan. Both companies are also exploring strategic cooperation in other areas. 31 Jan 2011 09:36

Top 50 US web properties, September 2010

RESTON, US: comScore, Inc yesterday, 21 October 2010, released its monthly analysis of US web activity at the top online properties for September 2010 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. 22 Oct 2010 08:44

Gateway Communications expands services into MENA

Gateway Communications, a supplier of telecommunications services across Africa, continues to expand its international reach with the opening of an office in Beirut, Lebanon. The move is in response to the increasing traffic into and out of locations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and the ongoing demand for connectivity within the region from Gateway's existing customer base. 10 Nov 2011 13:02

Africa is world's second most connected region by mobile subscriptions

LONDON, UK: Africa has become the second most connected region in the world in terms of mobile subscription count, up from fourth place at the end of 2010, according to new research by Informa Telecoms & Media, and the number of mobile subscriptions in Africa is expected to reach one billion in 2016. 4 Nov 2011 08:28

Kaspersky Lab releases Global IT Security Risks Survey results

MOSCOW, RUSSIA / JOHANNESBURG, SA: 91% of companies globally have experienced an IT threat over the last 12 months according to Kaspersky Lab's Global IT Security Risks Survey. In fact, over the period, 61% of the attacks were due to malware infection, 48% of companies have noticed an increase in the number of cyber attacks and 30% of companies have lost critical business data. 27 Oct 2011 07:39

Global advertising spend up 5.7% in Q2 2011

NEW YORK, US: Despite overall growth of 5.7% for the advertising industry in Q2 2011, adspend fell in nearly half the world's key markets in the second quarter of this year as economic concerns continued to impact the advertising industry, according to Nielsen's quarterly Global AdView Pulse report released recently. 20 Oct 2011 11:13

Help yourself to BlackBerry applications

From today, BlackBerry users will be entitled to download up to US$100 of premium applications for their mobile phones as a gesture of goodwill from Research in Motion following the interruption of services that lasted for several days and prompted outrage among millions of users. 19 Oct 2011 12:09

MACRA gives out dual licences to operators

[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has formally announced the awarding of dual operating licences to telecommunication players, following proposals that those operating mobile phone services will be allowed to operate fixed telephone services, and vice versa. 11 Oct 2011 12:35

Cheaper pay-TV packages for Africa

Naspers is to offer a bouquet of television stations to people in Uganda for just US$7-a-month and is planning to roll-out similar packages in other parts of Africa according to an article published by Business Report. 5 Sep 2011 11:29