By Edris Kisambira, IDG News Service\Kampala Bureau 22 Jul, 2008
The Uganda Police Force (UPF) and the Makerere University Faculty of Computing and Information Technology have entered into an agreement that will allow the force to integrate ICT into its day-to-day activities. read more »
By Brenda Zulu, IDG News Service\Lusaka Bureau 21 Jul, 2008
African countries need to make better use of ICT in order to do a better job of managing both natural and man-made disasters, according to a cross section of political and technology officials speaking at an International Telecommunications Union forum in Lusaka last week. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, IDG News Service\Nairobi Bureau 15 Jul, 2008
In a move aimed at maintaining relevance and influence in the South African market, Microsoft South Africa has renewed its free software commitment to schools at a cost of 750 million rand (US$98.2 million). read more »
Apple's focus over the last year or so has been largely on the iPhone, leaving Mac developers who work in the enterprise market to pretty much fend for themselves. And that seems to be just fine for companies in a newly launched Mac enterprise group and even other Mac developers. read more »
By Remmy Nweke, IDG News Service\Lagos Bureau 2 Jul, 2008
The Nigerian government spent 16 billion Nigerian naira (US$137 million) on ICT in 2007, according to Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, secretary to the Federal Government of the Federation. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, IDG News Service\Nairobi Bureau 30 Jun, 2008
Joseph Nyagah, Kenya's minister of cooperatives development and marketing, has urged savings and credit societies to adopt technology to avoid collapsing. read more »
A number of Enterprise focused Mac companies have joined forces to form the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA), a new group whose goal it is to facilitate the acceptance of Macs in a Windows dominated Enterprise world. read more »
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 26 Jun, 2008
Innovation in places all over the world is driving a second phase of globalization, and Cisco Systems wants to tap into that trend through "brainforming," the networking giant's CTO said Wednesday. read more »
Businesses last year spent approximately US$1.3 billion to make sure that spinning hard disk drives did not overheat and kept running despite being squeezed to near-capacity limits, according to IDC. read more »
In Johannesburg (or Jozi), street lights work and are obeyed; the computerized system has cracked down on all errant motorist until they have all towed the line. I even commented to a friend that we need such a computerized system in Kenya, but we have to get rid of the thugs who carjack motorists at night before we can obey lights at night. read more »
