One of the leading banks in Nigeria, Skye Bank has announced that it will be carrying out a scheduled system maintenance in its continued efforts to ensure improved service and functionality of its alternate channels. The maintenance expected to take place on April 21 and April 22, 2013 between the hours of 12am – 2am [...]

The Nigeria Internet Registration Association of Nigeria (NiRA), official domain registrar of Nigeria’s country Top-Level domain name (ccTLD), has set a target of 100,000 .ng second-level domains registrations by the end of the second quarter or 2013, reports Technology Times. Citing the Chief Operating Officer of the registrar, Ope Odusan, the ICT newspaper said that at the [...]

Google has added advanced features such as voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation to its Maps in four African countries, including Kenya, Ghana, Senegal and Ivory Coast. The new features works like a GPS navigation system which provides turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic re-routing and also gives access to information about any of the thousands of cities, towns, roads, [...]

Eurochannel, the international TV channel dedicated to European films and series, has extended its broadcasting reach to sub-Saharan Africa via the EUTELSAT 16A satellite. According to a statement, Eurochannel’s selection of EUTELSAT 16A marks the latest step in its international expansion and comes three months after its launch into all Europe via Eutelsat, after it signed [...]

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 [...]

South African Pay TV operator, Multichoice, has released the latest iOS 6.1 update for its DStv Mobile decoder service, the iDrifta, a mobile TV device that allows you watch TV exclusively on iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch devices. The iDrifta offers up to 15 channels and uses the Digital Video [...]

A new research study finds that the world’s most crime-riddled Internet service provider is Nigerian-based company, SpectraNet. According to the research, 63% of site addresses hosted on SpectraNet’s servers were found to be sending spam, which represents the highest proportion among 42,201 ISPs studied by Giovane Cesar Moreira Moura, a researcher at the Centre for [...]

The President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Fadi Chehadé has announced plans to have six new ICANN representatives on the African continent. According to the ICANN leader, there would also be a dramatic increase in the number of accredited Domain Name Registrars in the continent. With only five accredited Registrars currently, Chehadé [...]

Ghana’s President John Mahama has launched a project to build a $10 billion IT hub near the country’s capital, Accra, within three years, according to the BBC. Citing an investor, the BBC reports that the hub will have Africa’s tallest building, at a height of 270m (885ft) and will be built on empty land employing [...]

At the Mobile World Congress 2013, Nokia announced that while HERE, its new brand for location experiences, will continue to offer first and best experiences on Lumia, HERE Maps, HERE Drive and HERE Transit would become available for non-Nokia Windows Phone smartphones in selected markets. The new HERE Maps comes with the integration of LiveSight™, [...]

At the Mobile World Congress 2013, Nokia announced that with more than 130,000 applications now available on Windows Phone, it is opening up its APIs in imaging, location and music to encourage developers to build unique and innovative application experiences for Lumia. Already, new apps from Burton, GoPro and FourSquare are taking advantage of these [...]

Nokia and Microsoft are sharpening their focus on bringing business customers from competitor platforms to Windows Phone using the combined strength of Windows Phone 8 and the popular appeal of Nokia Lumia smartphones. In addition to announcing recent business wins at the Mobile World Congress 2013, Nokia confirmed operators including Everything Everywhere, Elisa, Orange, Telstra [...]

Facebook has continued to push its Messenger apps for mobile after it announced a deal to bring free and discounted data access for the apps to customers of 18 operators across 14 countries, including Egypt. The deal is an aggressive but industry-backed one to offer an alternative to SMS and promote mobile data services for carriers. The [...]

Google is rolling out its new ad offer for its Adwords customers with upgraded account (to Enhanced Campaigns) which lets AdWords advertisers post deal offers underneath a normal Google Search ad. With this latest offer, advertisers would get more click-able ad space and conversion tracking for offline actions. [Source: SearchEngineLand]

Twitter has officially launched its new Ads API specially for marketers, having been tested since January with its current partners. With its new Ads API comes with ability to integrate them into your existing cross-channel advertising strategies. According to Twitter, users would also continue to see the most relevant Promoted Tweets from advertisers. [Source: Twitter]