Microsoft recently partnered with the British Council to launch the African Digital Schools project, a project aimed at helping bridge the digital divide in about six African countries. Dubbed Badiliko in Swahili, the project will empower African schools using Microsoft technology with the British Council and Microsoft contributing $1 million each to the project. About [...]
Cross River State, Nigeria is gearing up to set up a technology knowledge city. The knowledge city will be home to an ICT incubation center and will be located at the Tinapa Business and leisure resort in Calabar. According to Nigeria’s ICT Minister, Ms. Omobola Johnson, it is “expected to incubate and foster spin off and [...]
The Nigerian Government is set to invest up to N1 billion in the creation of incubation centers that would develop and churn out the next generation of Nigerian ICT entrepreneurs. This was revealed by the Nigerian Minister for Information and Com…
According to SocialBakers, Facebook grew by more than 644,280 users in the last 6 months, while Google+ added 75,313 users in Nigeria within the same period, according to PlusDemographics.
Google’s social network, Plus which hit 90 million users worldwide in January 2012 has just over 75,000 users in Nigeria since its launch in June 2011, according to a recent report by PlusDemographics.
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Ever imagined remotely controlling a camera and a laser using a Google+ Hangout? Or hanging out with friends online to listen to and rate music together? It almost seems like something from the future, but these are actually some of the a…
Research In Motion today announced general availability of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft…
There’s no avoiding it: Africa has long been behind the curve when it comes to industry and infrastructure. From healthcare to manufacturing, its economic past has been plagued by elements of…
Tigo Ghana is losing ground to its nearest competitor, Vodafone Ghana, a new report published by the National Communications Authority (NCA) has revealed. The report shows that through December of…
On our mind this January 31st, 2012 are a range of themes – from the changing Internet cafe demographic to Wikipedia to mobile platforms.
Verizon Communications confirmed over the weekend plans to expand its enterprise network platform deeper into Africa and the Middle East. The global telecom giant said its enterprise customers now…
When I first got my hands on the Xperia Pro, I thought I was going to be pondering the merits of a slide-out keyboard in a touch-screen world. Then I started playing with it and was overwhelmed by how unimpressive it is. Sure it packs some serious fire…
I have observed quite a few startups trying to raise seed investments for tech startups in Africa over the last few years. I myself raised $150k for Tanzania’s first e-commerce travel portal 2…
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MXit users care about having fun, hooking up, and getting the latest celebrity gossip. That’s according to a new survey, conducted with the aim of figuring out what apps besides games users of the instant messaging service most want. The survey was run by software development company Maxxor, whose online gaming division develops [...]
Tablets for emerging markets seem to be all the rage. India started the trend with its Akash tablet, and now the Republic of Congo has its own cost cutting, touchscreen device: the Way-C — a Chinese made, US$300 tablet. The inventor of the Way-C (m…