Since Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2013 in Nigeria, we’ve been looking for ways to show our support for the company’s latest Office suite of products for Windows users. That’s why we’re launching the Office 2013 giveaway, in collaboration with Microsoft, in order to give our readers the chance to experience how working seamlessly in the cloud as well as offline can add value and increase productivity in their lives and businesses.

NextSpeel, a new online streaming site for TV episodes and series wants to let you watch the best TV series and soap operas from Nigeria and Africa for free. With popular soap operas from Nigeria such as Super Story and AY’s Crib, the platform says it would be launching this Friday, May 3 with at [...]

A new music streaming service called Orin has launched to help you discover new African music and share with your social sphere. Founded by Finbarrs Oketunji, a Nigerian product designer based in the UK, Orin (pronounced Oh-rin; which is a Yoruba word for song) has a cool design interface that is very similar to Ex.fm, a [...]

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, has announced that Safaricom, a leading mobile operator in Africa, with over 18 million customers, is using its LinqUs Cloud Backup solution to offer mobile subscribers in Kenya a comprehensive back-up service for phonebook contacts. The solution ensures that Safaricom customers can easily protect themselves against the disruption [...]

Microsoft has announced the availability of Office 2013 in Nigeria, the latest in its Office suite of products for Windows users. The Microsoft Office 2013 is the successor of Microsoft Office 2010 and includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features.

Business Connexion, Africa’s leading provider of Data Centre and Cloud Computing Services, has officially launched its Cloud Computing Services in Nigeria. Having been operating in Nigeria for the past five years, the company believes that Nigeria’s growing IT industry needs a reliable and secured cloud-based infrastructure provider and data centre facility to ensure that customer [...]

Whogohost has been ranked the 2nd largest domain name and web hosting company in Nigeria with over 2,600 domain names hosted on its servers, according to WebHosting.Info, as at February 18, 2013. The company which was founded in 2006 claims to have over 5,000 domain names under management to date, although it seems that half of that [...]

Apple has finally launched its music store, iTunes in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, giving its customers in these African countries access to over 20 million songs available to purchase and download.

Apple’s iCloud service initially came with a 5GB storage and later on added a temporary 20GB storage, but the company has now offered its MobileMe users an extra year of its 20GB of temporary storage. In a statement to its MobileMe users, Apple Inc. said “as a thank you to our former MobileMe members, we will continue to [...]

Google is set to bring together CEOs and CIOs from top organisations in Nigeria across industries at its first CEO/CIO Conference in Lagos, in collaboration with its Apps Authorised Resellers.

OutsourceIT, a leading provider of information technology support, solutions and services to small & medium sized and start-up businesses in Nigeria, has announced its launch of a rich cloud-based communications service for businesses called omniCLOUD. Powered by the CommuniGate Systems Unified Communications, the platform offers services such as personal and shared mailboxes, calendars and contacts; push [...]

After taking the wraps off its cloud service last year and making it commercially available in South Africa, Microsoft is now ready to launch Office 365 in Nigeria.

A hacker group is claiming that it has in its possession over 12 million Apple iOS Unique Device IDs, as well as other personal info from device owners, according to several news sites. The Anonymous hacker group announced the release of the UDIDs to the public in a tweet, claiming the source of the leak is FBI, [...]

Apple’s iTunes is said to launching in South Africa next month, according to Yoel Kenan, CEO of Africori at the Mobile Entertainment Africa 2012 conference which started today in Cape Town.

Savannah Fund, a seed investment fund focused on developing tech entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa today announced that it participated in a $2 million round into biNu, led by Eric Schmidt of TomorrowVentures and a number of other angel investors.