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Leading-edge news publishers join World Newspaper Congress programme. 11 Mar 2010 15:55
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[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The great mistake of today's business environment is to believe that digital can fulfil the role of marketing. It will not, Miles Young, global CEO of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, said yesterday, Tursday, 9 March 2010, in Johannesburg. 10 Mar 2010 11:09
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[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The great mistake of today's business environment is to believe that digital can fulfil the role of marketing. It will not, Miles Young, global CEO of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, said yesterday, Tursday, 9 March 2010, in Johannesburg. 10 Mar 2010 11:09
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PARIS: Alcatel-Lucent and Kenya Data Networks (KDN), a data communications carrier in Kenya, have expanded their existing relationship. The partnership will make various internet services available to KDN's small- and medium-sized enterprise customers. 8 Mar 2010 09:14
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[Walter Wafula] Aggrey Awori, Uganda's information and communication technology minister, is expected to officially launch Mobile Monday in the country on Women's Day, 8 March 2010 in Kampala, according to Daniel Stern the lead organiser of the city's association. 4 Mar 2010 10:33
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Alcatel-Lucent, mid last week, announced that Mauritius Telecom, an Orange/FT Group partner and fixed and mobile telecommunications operator in Mauritius, has deployed interactive mobile multimedia services powered by Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Interactive TV (MiTV). 22 Feb 2010 06:24
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[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom has signed a deal with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to use the latter's national distribution network to expand its data footprint across Kenya. Under the terms of the contract signed by the two firms, Safaricom operate an optical fibre pair on KPLC's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system as built on the national power grid. 4 Feb 2010 11:31
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One Young World, a global leadership summit for young leaders age 25 and under, united from all the world's 192 countries to address major global challenges, will be held in London from 8-10 February 2010. 1 Feb 2010 11:53
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[Titus Kaloki] There seems to be a calculated effort by the Kenyan government to protect mobile data services from competition by keeping the required license fee too expensive. Safaricom is currently the only service provider with one. Zain, Yu and Orange have suffered from this prohibitive move by government. 29 Jan 2010 07:53
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[Carole Kimutai] The Kenya ICT Board, the state corporation charged with developing and promoting the business process outsourcing sector (BPO) has extended the deadline for bandwidth capacity support to the BPO industry. 28 Jan 2010 09:54
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[Titus Kaloki] The .ke domain names have been launched by the Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC) with a new registry for their registration and management. Also included are three lower-priced second level Internet domains and a new registry system. 7 Jan 2010 08:19
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Kigali will soon go wireless after the government launched a US$7.66 million wireless broadband (WiBro) facility that is set to make it the first “hot spot” capital city in Africa. 28 Dec 2009 21:43
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The State of the Mobile Web report, published monthly, provides information on the top global trends affecting the mobile Web. The November issue states that in Africa, Facebook has taken a strong lead and ranks as the most popular site in six out of the top 10 countries. 24 Dec 2009 07:35