SEACOM, the privately owned African internet connectivity provider, this week announced it had reached a deal with Mozambique to provide a new link to landlocked and much beleaguered Zimbabwe.In a press statement, the ICT company stated it had, "...signed a Master Services Agreement with Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TDM), the leading telecommunications service provider in Mozambique".What this agreement means is that TDM, a state-owned company, will allow its fibre-optic network to be used to link Zimbabweans to SEACOM's cable running along ...

After the response to the "Social Media Rate card" of popular radio DJ Gareth Cliff, key questions have arisen about how people and companies disclose their advertising relationships on social network platforms.Of course anyone, including Cliff, are in their rights to advertise products via "word-of-mouth" to their Twitter followers or Facebook friends, but there is a growing body of opinion on how social network-users should disclose this powerful type of advertising.Social media has disrupted the world of marketing, blurring ...

Google was founded on the mantra of "give the users what they want and the rest will follow" and the launch of +1 (Plus One) is an attempt at just that.The search giant realised that Facebook’s "Like" button allowed Facebook access to key data concerning a user’s preferences online. By Liking and +1'ing, users are sending messages not only to their peers but also to the companies (read: Search Engines and Social Networks) who are providing the service. ...

India may investigate a complaint against Apple after allegations that the US computer giant violated local competition laws, an antitrust agency official told Dow Jones Newswires Wednesday.The official, who spoke to Dow Jones on condition of anonymity, said the complainant alleged Apple had broken Indian law by selling its iPhone 4 model through just two local mobile phone operators, Bharti Airtel and Aircel.Apple’s model of selling its iPhone through a limited number of operators, particularly in the States where the ...

The world's most famous online retailer, Amazon.com, is gearing up for a big launch in Cape Town, with bigwigs flying into the country from the States.Among the executives will be Marc Onetto, Amazon's Senior Vice President of Operations and Customer Service. Onetto will be joined in August by members of the press for what Amazon are calling a "Grand Opening". The VP will view a "new facility", which is essentially the company's upgraded call centre that was set up last ...

Since the announcement of iCloud, cloud computing and other cloud services have leapt from the tech-world and into the world at large. With this excitement and popularity has come a fair amount of scrutiny, mainly asking whether cloud services can keep our data safe and secure?For leading cloud-service Dropbox the answer to that question was yes -- until Sunday.It had been reported that on Sunday some users noticed they were allowed into their Dropbox account after entering the wrong ...

A study released on Wednesday by the Online Publishers Association showed that Ninety-three percent of tablet users have downloaded apps to their devices. The average tablet user downloaded 20 apps, predominantly in the categories of weather, games, music, social networking and news.Of these users, seventy-nine percent paid for apps, spending an average of US$53 during the last twelve months. With a total of Twenty-six percent of all apps downloaded being paid apps, games make up more than 50 percent of ...

The first quarter of Research in Motion (RIM)'s fiscal 2012 year results released last Friday, made it plain to see that the company is bleeding. Despite being up year-over-year, co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie announced RIM’s second consecutive negative quarter last week, and are predicting things will get worse in the next quarter.Announcements of impending layoffs, and a share repurchase program are not signs of a healthy company and yet when analysts question RIM’s leadership, Lazardis remains upbeat: "This ...

Joanne Frail, a 40-year-old mother from Manchester, UK, was recently given eight months jail time for contempt of court. Her crime: engaging in Facebook conversations with Jamie Stewart, a defendant in a large-scale drugs trial in which Frail was a juror.According to a report in The Independent, when the Lord Judge handed down the sentence, all Frail could muster was a painful exclamation of "eight months!" before laying her head on the table in front of her and crying. ...

Sticking with my news reader obsession, this week I take a look at Taptu, a free news, Google Reader and social media aggregation app that has caught my attention over the past few days.As I mentioned last week when reviewing the Reeder app, I am a news junkie and actually have to stop myself from refreshing my Google Reader tab every five minutes. I have my favourite sites that I read every day, which I think add value to my ...