Vodacom’s mobile app store have gone live offering over 140 000 apps. The service provider says the launch of Vodacom Apps will usher in “a new South African mobile app ecosystem”. According to a statement, Vodacom Apps will support the major mobile platforms, including Android, BlackBerry, Java, Symbian and Windows Mobile for the “vast majority” [...]

Telkom continued on its journey to offer fixed mobile convergence with the launch of Telkom Business Mobile, aimed at corporate business clients. The new Telkom Business Mobile offering will incorporate fixed line and mobile services. Speaking at the launch in Johannesburg, South Africa, Telkom CEO, Nombulelo Moholi said Telkom Business Mobile offers one mobile and [...]

Etisalat, the UAE-based mobile network operator, is set to follow the July launch of commercial NFC services in Tanzania with launches in more countries by the end of this year. The company is to roll out its Touch and Go NFC contactless payment service to four more African countries by the end of 2011. Etisalat [...]

Safaricom, the leading mobile operator in Kenya, is seeking Sh1.4 billion (about N2.3 billion) refund from the government as part of a fee it paid in 2007 to acquire a high speed mobile phone service licence. Intent on acquiring a 3G licence, Safaricom paid to the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK- www.cck.go.ke), $25 million, (about [...]

In its efforts to maintain its grip on market-share, Airtel Zambia has started rolling out its network to the most remote parts of Western Province of the country. Airtel Zambia Managing Director, Fayaz King, said that contractors were mobilising to have the entire Western Province to have on Airtel network, a move aimed at capturing [...]

L-R: Mr. Kennedy Uzoka (Deputy Managing Director – Designate, United Bank for Africa); Mr. Obinna Ufudo (Chairman, Afripay,) and Mr. Mohammed Jameel (Group Chief Operating Officer of Globacom)  at the signing of an MoU in readiness for the commercial launch of UBA’s U-Mo and Glo Text cash, Nigeria’s first mobile money transfer service in Lagos

InterSwitch Limited recently completed its acquisition of Bankom Limited, Uganda’s only licensed interbank switch and re-branded the company to InterSwitch East Africa (Uganda) Limited. In this picture from L-R: Mrs. Justine Bagydnda (Executive Director Bank Supervision, Bank of Uganda); Mrs. Maria Kiwanuka; Mr. Elly Karuhanga (Director, InterSwitch East Africa – Uganda Limited); Ms. Charlotte Kaheru (Chief [...]

L – R: Mrs. Toyin Saraki (Former First Lady, Kwara State); Mr. David McCarron (Director, EMEA Healthcare, Intel Corporation); Mrs. Omobola Johnson (Minister of Communications Technology); Mr. Linus Awute (Perm. Sec. Federal Ministry of Health) and Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide (Minister of State, FCT) at the Pan African Health Summit held recently in Abuja

The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) recently announced new set of executives in keenly contested elections at the NCS Annual General Meeting, and an inaugural meeting was held to formally induct the new executives. In this group photograph is new President, Demola Aladekomo with incoming and outgoing National Executive Council of Nigeria Computer Society

Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology company. Apple shares dived as much as 7 percent in after-hours trade after Jobs, who has been on medical leave for an undisclosed condition since January 2011, announced he will [...]