Jonathan Avila uses his iPad in ways most people might not realise are possible: the device reads e-mail to him while he is travelling to work, tells him which way to walk when he is lost, and even lets him know if there is a sidewalk on the other side of the street. Avila needs [...]

It is almost tiring to list all the booming economic sectors in Africa. The telecommunications sector is no exception, with an estimated one million new subscribers every week there is money to be made. One entrepreneur has brought special telecoms expertise to Africa, and is now invited to scores of African boardrooms to sell his [...]

MTN SA has launched a pilot Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile high-speed network in Gauteng, South Africa. MTN SA Chief Technology Officer, Kanagaratnam Lambotharan, says the LTE pilot project would be kick-started in the suburbs of Fourways, Sandton, Centurion and Oliver Tambo International Airport. The LTE rollout and pilot test, which MTN is undertaking in [...]

Safaricom has given a Sh20 million (N33million) grant to Strathmore University (www.strathmore.edu) for its new research centre in a bid to support the development of mobile phone applications from students which are proving good for the local market. Announcing the grant during a mobile phone applications demonstrations workshop at the university recently, Safaricom’s Director of [...]

South Africa’s Absa Bank has extended its service reach with the launch of an innovative application for Android-based smartphones and tablet devices that allows its sales consultants to open accounts and issue debit cards to new customers in under 10 minutes. The on-device “app” scans a prospective customer’s ID book to identify and verify details, [...]

Rwandatel is set to be sold by the end of this year in a move aimed at raising money to pay its creditors. The country is also in dire need of a third mobile phone operator in order to meet its ambitious six million mobile subscribers by the end of next year. The decision to [...]

Cellcom, one of the leading GSM communications companies in Liberia, is bringing Google to subscribers of the company for fast and efficient internet services. According to a release from Cellcom, it said the company had signed a partnership with Google that aims to facilitate access to Google’s innovative services across Africa by leveraging Cellcom’s networks. [...]

As computational power rises exponentially, not linearly, so does the rate of change — and that means the next 10 years should pack in far more technological change than the last 10. Disruptive technology is, by its very nature, unpredictable, but it is still possible to look at the work being done by Research and [...]

The Obama administration has unveiled a sweeping strategy for the way that it plans to conduct the country’s business and political dealings online in the coming years, and much of the plan centres on improving the security and reliability of the Internet. The International Strategy for Cyberspace is a policy document and the plan clearly [...]

Dell has introduced an integrated “chiller-less” data centre solution. This innovation is a further proof that the lines between information technology and building technology are blurring The move also signals more support for the notion that data centres need to better employ fresh air cooling technologies — a philosophy that has also been embraced by [...]