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Hope City project is a result of rlg risk taking syndrome11/03Chief Executive of Rlg Communication, Roland Agambire, says his company took a bigger risk to launch the Hope City project to make Ghana a competitive…
UK tech firm opens centre in Africa09/11Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL), a multipoint microwave network specialist for 3G and LTE backhaul, has opened a new Centre of Excellence in Lagos…
Nigeria's elections set new records in use of social media22/09In 2008, then US presidential candidate Barack Obama broke new ground by using social media in ways never seen before. Yet it was Goodluck Jonathan, t…
10 tips on how to be a super Google searcher26/08Google is pretty easy to use, no doubt. When you want to find out something about the purple bird that you saw at Mole National Park, you just type a…
Africa pioneers high-speed internet04/08Reliable Internet access and connectivity has for decades been a hindrance to Africa's development agenda.
GHANA: 21, 059 switched mobile network July02/0821, 059 mobile phone subscribers had successfully moved from one mobile service provider to another in Ghana in July.
The gold diggers on African dumping sites13/07Every day they risk their lives for a few cents: scavenging piles of garbage for pieces of metals and e-waste. On Africa's dumping sites the will…
S. Sudan: Google maps world's newest country30/06The internet giant Google has teamed up with the World Bank, UNOSAT, and RCMRD to bring together more than 100 Sudanese in the diaspora to map Souther…
GHANA: Two win Doodle4Google prize13/06The 2011 Doodle 4 Google prize in Ghana goes to Nil Carreras Del Peso, of French School, and Nana Abena Asabea Ametepe, of Golden Age school.
Google gives Somalia search domain13/06The internet search giant Google has announced a gateway for Somali users with the creation of a domain.
CAMEROON: 4G network launched in Sub-Saharan Africa29/054G Africa has launched the first operational fourth generation (4G) broadband wireless internet service in Cameroon
In Africa hi-tech is taking centre stage27/05For 48 long hours, employees of Senegal's National Telecommunications Company cut telephone and Internet connections to the rest of the world.
Africa about to celebrate 4G20/05It was President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania who once said that, "while the great powers are struggling to get to the moon, we in Africa are strug…
26 African countries can now buy Android apps13/05Google has made it possible for 99 new countries including 26 African nations to purchase apps from the Android Market.
Ghana is all fingers and thumbs10/05Although web access is a luxury for most Ghanaians, the use of social media is on the rise
In Rwanda the future is digital09/05A luxury commuter bus pulls up by the kerb to pick up passengers. A young woman quickly jumps in, retrieves a smart card from her wallet and swipes it…
GHANA: Google highlights web opportunities28/04Google hosts a horde of tech savvy entrepreneurs, journalists and developers at its G-Ghana event on Thursday.
CAMEROON: Profile of ActivSpaces25/03In April I am travelling to Cameroon to visit the African Center for Technology, Innovations and Ventures (ActivSpaces), otherwise the leading technol…
AFRICA: Three nations join Google free SMS24/03The internet giant firm Google has revealed three more African countries that could send free SMS for free via their Gmail platform. Tanzania, Uganda …
Ghanaians interested in Libya, Egypt revolts03/03Ghanaian internet users were more interested in happenings taking place in north African countries of Egypt and Libya than 'valentine' that …