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While many organisations have made the move to the cloud and virtualised applications and servers in their data centres, they have been slow to virtualise Unified Communications (UC) applications...
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South African Nokia Asha users can now send and receive office e-mails from the comfort of their mobile phones. This follows the introduction of the Mail for Exchange app in the Nokia Store. The new...
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Google Drive lets you store and access your files anywhere -- on the web, on your hard drive, on your phone, or on the go. Whether you're presenting slides in a boardroom in São Paulo or negotiating a Japanese contract in Tokyo, Google Drive speaks your language: 65 of them, to be exact, with the addition of 18 new ones today, including Afrikaans, Amharic, Swahili, and Zulu.
Afrikaans, Amharic, Basque, Chinese (Hong Kong), Estonian, French (Canada), Galician, Icelandic, Khmer, Lao, Malaysian, Nepali, Persian, Sinhalese, Spanish (Latin America), Swahili, Urdu, Zulu
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China Telecom Global Limited ("CTG"), the wholly owned international business subsidiary of China Telecom Corporation Limited ("CTCL"), one of the world's largest providers of integrated...
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Droughts, floods, sea-level rises and fiercer storms likely to undermine progress in developing world and hit food supply
Millions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned.
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Airtel has committed to invest $ 125 million in Gabon following discussions at the New York Forum in Libreville. The New York Forum AFRICA, was held in Libreville, Gabon; under the Patronage of H.E....
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Africa's premier ICT news publication ITNewsAfrica, in conjunction with SAS Institute, will host the next Innovation Dinner on 26 June in Lagos, Nigeria. The theme for this exclusive event is The...
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This is the first segment of a two-part post. The follow-up will be published tomorrow. The greatest challenge that every startup must face is the constant pressure of managing limited resources. Regardless of whether that resource is people, money or time, there is usually a known, fixed limit as to what is going to be [...] Related posts:
Looking Back To Plan Forward: Part 3
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A journey through Egyptian fiction starts with the 1919 revolution against the British and ends with the Arab spring
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
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Japan's Toyota allegedly plans to set up a mega fertiliser production plant in Zambia. According to Zambia'a Ambassador to Japan Mwelwa Chibesakunda, Toyota is keen invest in agro input production in Zambia, as part of its diversifcation programme away from its traditional car manufacturing.
About three weeks ago, officials from Toyota Japan allegedly met Mr Chibesakunda and told him that they were interested in investing in Zambia's agriculture sector by setting up the fertiliser manufacturing plant. He says the investors have already been to the Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ), the country's only local fertiliser producing firm in Kafue, to look at the facility which has been struggling financially.
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The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) special summit on the Zimbabwe elections went ahead on June 15 in Maputo, Mozambique,...
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35 million missed calls. That's the number of calls that 75-year old social justice leader Anna Hazare received from people across India who supported his efforts to fight corruption. Two weeks earlier, he had invited India to join his movement by ... Continue reading →
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's choice of an Islamist governor for Luxor has sparked anger among tourism workers over his links to the militants that killed 58 people in a 1997 attack in the ancient city which destroyed the tourism industry.
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Cape Town, South Africa, has been undergoing somewhat of an electronic music revival over the past five years. The initial boom happened in the early 2000s when, aided by the pioneering African Dope record label, artists such as Felix Laband and The Constructus Corporation (an earlier incarnation of Die Antwoord) suddenly found themselves at the [...]
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The English word 'perspective' derives from the Latin, perspectiva, which means 'to see through', and as such, instantly assumes a position - a viewer and a horizon, and an in-between space that demarcates self and other, subject and object, time and space. This is our modern perspective. Once this perspective is troubled - both visually [...]
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President Michael Sata recently pardoned and set free 615 prisoners countrywide as part of the African Freedom Day commemoration. This now brings to nearly 4,000 the number of prisoners PF has released on the streets! The releases have been usually on Africa Freedom day or independence day.
On its first independence day in power 2011, the Sata government freed people who were allegedly imprisoned "over minor wildlife-related offences". In Mr Sata's words, "as we celebrate 47 years of our independence, I have extended a gesture of goodwill to these people by pardoning a total of 673 prisoners, majority of whom were jailed over these minor wildlife-related cases".
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Editor's Note: This op-ed originally appeared on Al Jazeera English. Documentary filmmakers Matthew LeRiche, PhD, and Viktor Pesenti recently investigated the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn Blue Nile state, and the flow of refugees into South Sudan. Dr LeRiche is an academic, a writer/producer, and a risk management professional.
In the past year, my colleague Viktor Pesenti and I spent time with people being bombarded by their own government in Sudan's conflict-torn Blue Nile state, near the border with South Sudan.
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The population of elephants in Garamba National Park in northeast Congo has dropped from 20,000 to just over 2,000 since 1960. The Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, led by Joseph Kony, hunts African elephants in the park to fund the killings and mass atrocities it commits throughout central Africa.
The LRA has catalyzed the poaching problem in Garamba since expanding its operations outside of the borders of Uganda in 2005. As described in the Enough Project report, "Kony's Ivory: How Elephant Poaching in Congo Supports the LRA", the LRA and other rebel militias continue to hunt the African elephants andtrade the ivory for arms, ammunition, and food. Some of the bounty is also sent north, out of the park, to the Central African Republic and South Sudan border where Kony and his closest ...
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