F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix dies
Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. Ritchie…
Zynga set to launch social network called Project Z
Social gaming giant Zynga is set to launch its own social gaming network in a bid to reduce its dependency on Facebook. The new…
Naspers rolls out payment gateway PayU in India
South African media giant Naspers has quietly rolled out its payment gateway product PayU to the Indian market. According to Indian digital news site…
BlackBerry’s continuing ‘partial outages’ in Europe, Africa, & Middle East
BlackBerry users in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region have found themselves cut off from online-communications for three days running, following a…