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Last news: September 30, 2011 08:00:44

According to Symantec, in the March edition of the MessageLabs spam report, global spam levels fell by 33 percent when the Rustock botnet was dismantled in mid-March. However, the Bagle botnet quickly filled the void, together with a number of other spam botnets that increased their activities in the second half of March. Until the Microsoft-led operation which led [...] - [Read more]

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has put an end to months of speculation and officially announced two new additions to its family of tablets, the GALAXY Tab 10.1 and GALAXY Tab 8.9, the world’s thinnest mobile tablets, measuring just 8.6 millimeters. The GALAXY Tab 10.1 will be released in June 2011 and the GALAXY Tab 8.9 is expected [...] - [Read more]

The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has received a second complaint from Nokia alleging that Apple infringes additional Nokia patents in almost all of its products. Nokia alleges infringements by Apple in it’s Mobile phones, portable music players and tablet computers. The seven Nokia patents in the new complaint relate to Nokia’s pioneering innovations that [...] - [Read more]

Orascom Telecom, Egypt and the Middle East’s largest telecommunications company in terms of subscribers, asked on Monday for its shareholders to approve an almost double capital increase to 14 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.4 billion) in order to split the company into two separate entities. In a statement published by the Egyptian Stock Market, the company said [...] - [Read more]

Airtel Nigeria is going full steam toward developing Nigeria’s 3G networks. According to a report by Business Day, the company’s CEO Rajan Swaroop said that they are looking to erect a 3G network expanding to cover nearly 80 percent of Nigeria’s population by 2012. According to the report, which included an interview with Swaroop, the move [...] - [Read more]

MTN Nigeria and Alcatel-Lucent announced on Monday that they were combining forces in an effort to transform the mobile operator’s DSL access and aggregation network. According to the statement issued by the two companies, Alcatel-Lucent will be charged with enabling the mobile operator with cost-effective transformation of its TDM-based transport networks. The mobile operator hopes that [...] - [Read more]

It took the creative genius of an Apple to fulfill the prophecy, but the age of mobility is finally here, and it shows no signs of letting up on innovative surprises or promoting widespread addictive behaviour. First, the iPhone rekindled the smartphone concept, brushing aside Symbian and to a lesser degree BlackBerry, and spawning formidable competition [...] - [Read more]

A new report from Pyramid Research suggests that the Mobile Money market in Africa represents a $3 billion opportunity. mMoney revenue, as a percentage of total operator revenue, is expected to rise to more than 5% in 2015. Mobile Money in Africa: A Big Revenue Opportunity for Network Operators will outline the current demand for mMoney [...] - [Read more]

“The times are changing,” Christian De Faria, Senior Vice President of Commercial & Innovation at MTN Group Limited, says in an interview with ITNewsAfrica.com. “An operator can’t only sell airtime anymore.” “Convergence has become a reality,” De Faria continues. “Data revenue is growing quickly worldwide, and in developed markets operators have 30 – 50% of their [...] - [Read more]

For many Moroccans dating is nearly non-existent and arranged marriages have a history of being commonplace in the North African country. However, times appear to be changing for young people in the country in search of their life partners. A new website aims at assisting young Moroccans in finding their future spouses via the “cyber” marriage [...] - [Read more]

eGain announced over the weekend the addition of Africa’s Seven Seas Technologies as a new partner in an effort to address rising IT demands on the continent. The company, a provider of cloud and on-site customer interaction hub software, said that the unified multi-channel service solutions in East Africa would be implemented across Kenya, Uganda, [...] - [Read more]

Kenya’s battle inside the Communications Commission (CCK) has a new arbiter after the country’s Information Minister Samuel Poghiso entered the fray over a boardroom battle that is threatening to oust Director-General Charles Njoroge from his position. Poghiso believes he can help calm the internal situation at CCK and help move the commission past the row. Upon receiving [...] - [Read more]

According to a report published on Monday, Nigeria’s second national carrier Globacom is expected to obtain a new spectrum license from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) by the third quarter of this year. Business Day Online reported they received information from “informed” sources close to the network of the proposed deal. Monday’s report stated that the [...] - [Read more]

Shift 2: Unleashed - Helmet Cam view of Pagani Huayra (Image credit: Shift 2 homepage)

Last week we attended the pre-launch party for EA Games’ Shift 2:... - [Read more]

Developers wanting to bring their new and existing apps to the highly anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet will soon have additional tools and options to enhance and expand their commercial opportunities. Research In Motion (RIM) announced plans to greatly expand the application ecosystem for the BlackBerry PlayBook which is scheduled to launch in the U.S. and Canada [...] - [Read more]

Orascom Telecom, Egypt’s largest mobile operator, continued on Sunday its surge on the country’s Stock Market. It was a major catalyst in forcing the bourse to shut down due to trading volumes being too high. The emergency circuit breaker forced the closing of the markets earlier after stocks rose more than five percent, ending days of [...] - [Read more]

The International Data Corporation (IDC) expects the Sub-Saharan Africa IT market to continue its post-crisis recovery with impressive year-on-year growth rates in 2011. The IDC, a global market intelligence and advisory firm for the information technology and telecommunications industries, released it’s latest figures ahead of its upcoming Africa CIO Summit 2011 at Johannesburg’s Southern Sun Grayston [...] - [Read more]

Organizers of the second annual TMT Finance and Investment Africa conference said the main discussion points would be infrastructure investment and merger and acquisition strategies. The conference brings leading telecom executives, financiers and advisors to London to meet on the latest happenings in the telecommunications industry in Africa. The event is scheduled to take place at [...] - [Read more]

Next week, Kenya is expected to launch Mobile Number Portability (MNP), however analysts are concerned that the service may not be as effective as it should be and could leave customers frustrated. Safaricom said in a statement on Thursday that the testing on the new project has not been to the standards they had expected ahead [...] - [Read more]

Indian IT company Infosys Technologies is continuing its entrance into the African continent. It said in a statement Friday morning that it believes Africa is a market for long-term IT services and hopes it will be able to implement an investment strategy. In an interview with the Times of India, Infosys CFO V Balakrishnan said that [...] - [Read more]