Report has it that Egypt’s leading mobile company, Mobinil is looking to cut its international telecom gateway. Mobinil, which deals with the restructuring of its parent company Orascom Telecom, offers a gateway that provides competitive services on an international level. The mobile company believes that by reducing the prices it would be able to increase [...]

Seven customers have sued Safaricom, claiming damages for delayed processing of their mobile number portability requests. The case sets the stage for class action suits against service providers as consumers begin to exercise their rights under the new Constitution. In a case filed at the High Court in May, Alex Gakuru, Humphrey Atuti, Brian Kimani, [...]

Airtel Kenya has launched a new post-pay package that will allow customers to pay as little as $6.04 (N937.4) per month for services. Dubbed ‘Postpaid Timam service’, the service gives customers 200 free minutes for local calls, and 10 free SMS every month. Airtel Kenya Managing Director, Rene Meza, said the Postpaid Timam bundle gives [...]

MTN Uganda hopes that its green initiative will help spark continued interest in its localised efforts to help build communities. In May, the company launched its 21 day “Y’ello Care” campaign to plant some 21,000 trees in the country to bolster environmental awareness. The campaign is being done across all MTN’s African units and is [...]

Due to the increased demand for mission-critical communications, two-way radios and next-generation wireless networks, Motorola Solutions has restated its plan to expand its presence in Africa. Africa, especially Nigeria is seeing an increase in the use of the latest digital two-way radio technology that provides entities – particularly the army and police, construction companies, manufacturing [...]

Microsoft has unveiled its next operating system (OS), widely expected to be called Windows 8, giving a demo of the software at the D9 Conference in the US and at Computex in Taiwan. However, PC manufacturers are worried that they will be left out of the loop when the OS eventually comes to market. The [...]

Toyota has set up a social networking service for drivers to interact with their cars. The automotive firm has formed a strategic alliance with Salesforce.com to build Toyota Friend, a private social network for Toyota customers and their cars. Toyota Friend will be powered by Salesforce Chatter; a private social networking tool used by businesses, [...]

Chip giant Intel touted a range of ultra-thin netbooks dubbed Ultrabooks at the Computex show in Taiwan. Ultrabooks are designed to combine the portability of smaller netbook laptops with the ultra-thin form factor of tablet devices, and capitalise on the changes the company is making to the Intel Core processor roadmap. Intel said that this [...]

Apple has launched its own cloud service to rival those of Google and Amazon. The service is called iCloud, a set of free cloud services designed to automatically and wirelessly store and synchronise personal data across a range of devices. The firm’s CEO, Steve Jobs, announced the launch at Apple’s annual developers’ conference. Jobs said: [...]

One of Toronto’s newest neighbourhoods will start life with some of the fastest Internet connections in the world as developers tempt bandwidth-hungry residents and business into the one-time industrial wasteland. Modelled on similar undertakings in Seoul, Tokyo, Stockholm, London and Paris, the new area on the shores of Lake Ontario will offer Internet connections that [...]