Social network giant, Facebook is teaming up with startups, vendors, and even giant Internet rivals to turn Facebook pages into online shopping outlets fuelled by recommendations from friends who “like” to buy. Facebook is ramping up efforts to entice companies such as Delta Air Lines (www.delta.com) and J.C. Penney (www.jcpenney.com) to sell wares on its [...]

Detectives investigating the murder of UK citizen, Joanna Yeates recently launched a national facebook campaign to appeal for witnesses. Avon and Somerset police said using the social networking site was a more effective way of appealing for information than posters and leaflets. Detectives said they had used Facebook successfully in the past. The new campaign [...]

Intel Corp’s new microchips, touted as its biggest-ever leap in processing power, include built-in content protection to make it safer for Hollywood studios to offer premium movies to consumers over their personal computers. Time Warner Inc’s Warner Bros Digital Distribution and other studios plan to offer high-definition movies to consumers whose computers use the chips, [...]

Main One Cable has just concluded its extremely successful two week “Feel the Impact” promotion at the Lekki Palms Shopping Complex. The promotion which ran from 27th December, 2010 through 9th January, 2011 provided shoppers and visitors to the mall with an opportunity to experience firsthand broadband connectivity speed that is on offer from MainOne [...]

The much revered Rwandan traditional crafts can now be obtained online after a UK-based company launched a website where clients can purchase a range of products’ which can then be sent to them from wherever they are around the world. The Newcastle-based company, Beauty of Rwanda, which was founded by Salha L Kaitesi, a Rwandan [...]

A group of cyber-activists have shut down Zimbabwe government websites in retaliation for the second wife of current Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe, and the First Lady of Zimbabwe, Mrs. Grace Mugabe’s legal action against the country’s local Newspaper, Standard Newspaper. The government is said to be the latest target of cyber attacks by supporters of [...]

The Angolan minister of Telecommunications and Information Technologies, JoséCarvalhodaRocha, said recently that the country will soon introduce a postgraduate programme in telecommunications. The course will be run by the Higher Education Institute of Information Technologies and Communication (ISUTIC), which is under construction in Luanda. According to the minister, ISUTIC will be supported by the Brazilian [...]

In a bid to improve on telephony in South Africa, eTranzact Global South Africa has partnered with MTN Group to deploy Community Pay Phone in South Africa. The initiative, which was authorised by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa  (ICASA), is intended to achieve affordable telephony services in disadvantaged areas. According to Reggie Nxumalo, [...]

Kenyans’ resistance to use of plastic money has seen providers of cash-less payment systems leapfrog credit cards to use of mobile phone based e-commerce. Companies that have e-payment platforms such as I&M Bank (www.imbank.com), JamboPay (www.jambopay.com), PesaPal (www.pesapal.com) and I-pay (www.intrepidkenya.com) say the uptake of cards for electronic commerce has been slow, even after the [...]

A major hiccup that medium and small enterprises in Africa face is the lack of information to grow their businesses, studies have shown. To bridge this gap, Rwanda has decided to invest in buses equipped with computers, to offer free Internet services to the rural poor. The buses also serve as computer training facilities in [...]