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Orange inaugurates Campus in Senegal to train managers for West Africa subsidiaries
France Telcom-Orange – which holds a majority stake in Telkom Kenya – has inaugurated a new Orange Campus site in Senegal in order to reaffirm its commitment to strengthening its worldwide managerial community and to supporting managers in their daily responsibilities. Located in the Dakar technology park, the first priority of the Orange Campus international [...]
Ericsson, Huawei take part in World Telecoms and Information Society Day (WTISD) celebrations
Global IT solutions providers – Sweden’s Ericsson and China’s Huawei – joined the world in celebrating ITU’s Telecoms Day as well as the World Information Society Day (WTISD). In its message to the global ICT industry players, Ericsson said that the day represents “an opportunity to reflect and look at the path we are on [...]
CISCO Report: Bring Your Own Device fraught with data security challenges
Findings from Cisco’s Cisco’s 2013 Annual Security Report (ASR) indicate that Middle East and Africa have the highest concentration of online security threats coming from legitimate destinations visited by mass audiences, such as major search engines, retail sites and social media outlets. The ASR states that security risks rise in businesses are also on the [...]
SmoothTel to participate in regional hospitality fair as technology partner
Smoothtel & Data Solutions LTD has partnered with the Kenya Hospitality Trade Fair (KHTF) as “Technology Partner” with a sponsorship of Kshs 500,000 for the upcoming industry fair to be held from July 25th to 27th, 2013 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) . Under the theme “Re-defining the hospitality industry in East & [...]
Kenya engineering university students to access Kshs 100 million of free Microsoft software in 2013
The Kenya section of the global Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE- read as ‘I triple E’) has confirmed continuity of a partnership with Microsoft under which a wide selection of software is provided to IEEE Student members and Graduate Student members for free. IEEE Kenya section chair, Vincent Kaabunga said the offer by [...]
Airtel Tosha to offer Kenyan subscribers more voice, SMS and data
Airtel Kenya has today announced the introduction of a new permanent tariff dubbed Airtel Tosha which enables customers to get much more on voice calls, SMS and data at low daily subscription rates designed to fit their unique individual needs. In a statement, Airtel Kenya MD Shivan Bhargava said, “This is yet another flexible service [...]
Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum set for Durban in July
The Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum will be held on 12 – 13 July 2013 in Durban, South Africa. The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent. For more information and to register for the [...]
Kenya among 30 African states with high Internet Security Threat profile
Kenya is among 30 African countries with high internet security threat profiles according to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18 (ISTR), released today. In the report, Kenya is listed among the Top 10 most vulnerable states (coming in at #8), with others making it to the Top 10 slot being Egypt; South Africa; Morocco; [...]
SatADSL in capital increase to finance growth strategy in Africa
SatADSL, a Belgian Company providing satellite Internet access and communications service in Sub-Saharan Africa, has announced the successful completion of a capital increase aiming at financing its development over the next 5 years. SatADSL completed this last round of capital increase against a cash contribution of 1 million Euros by a leading Belgian private equity [...]
Orange renews sponsorship for Ladies Hockey Team
Team has maintained the national league title for the last 15 years The team is the reigning African Cup of Club Champions The KSh 7.4 million sponsorship caters for the team’s kit and equipment, players’ allowances and match facilitation Orange, has renewed its sponsorship of the Orange Ladies Hockey team ahead of the 2013 season [...]