Rob Rose

[Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA] South African IT company Dimension Data is set to be accepted into the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE-100 on Wednesday as the ‘new economy’ pretenders edge out established enterprises such as Rolls Royce and Associated British Foods. According to Dow Jones, Didata is one of six technology enterprises that are expected to break […]

[Lagos NIGERIA] South Africa and Nigeria are the first two countries to go under the Andersen Consulting microscope as part of the United Nation’s digital technology project to examine ways in which IT and the Internet can be used to address the economic disparity between wealthy and developing nations. The UN last month mandated the […]

[Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA] Pretoria-based company Diamond Network Technologies (DNT) revealed this week that it has developed a technology that will allow people to access the Internet from virtually any connected device, with or without an operating system or browser. DNT Marketing Director Rhys Taylor explains that the technology was developed locally over a five-month period […]

[Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA] Microsoft has not responded to market speculation that it is contemplating buying MIH Holdings subsidiary OpenTV, although rumors to this effect drove up MIH shares by 10% on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Wednesday. MIH Holdings reported a 10.6% gain in yesterday’s trade on the JSE, closing up 370c (US $0.53) to […]

[Mogadishu, SOMALIA] Six years after the first African country, Ghana, introduced Web access to its population, the entire continent can now be said to be wired to the Internet as Somalia’s first Internet service provider opened its doors on Saturday. The Somali Internet Company, a joint venture between three Somali telecommunications companies – Barakat, Astel […]

[Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA] Convergent banking and IT group Nedcor announced a number of measures on Monday designed to consolidate its IT investments, which will result in the banking group becoming the second largest IT stock on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Nedcor announced two measures designed to raise its IT profile, upping the value of […]

[Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA] Retail group Wooltru announced on Friday that it has become the first South African company to join the WorldWide Retail Exchange, a global e-commerce marketplace for retailers operating over the Internet. This announcement, made last week by Wooltru Executive Chairman Colin Hall, will result in Wooltru entering the exchange as a charter […]

[Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA] The governments of Mauritius and Namibia, backed by Sun Microsystems and Oracle, have established a joint IT company called SILNAM that will provide the platform for the import of IT skills from Mauritius into Namibia. The new company, to be based in Namibia, will comprise the skills and services from both the […]

[Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA] South Africa, along with twenty-two other countries including Russia and China, require a “substantial” investment in technological infrastructure if the country hopes to lever off the global digital economy, according to a report by technology consultants McConnell International. The report, released on Tuesday, rated 42 nations according to their connectivity, technological innovation, […]

[Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA] Networking integration group Dimension Data told reporters on Wednesday that it expects its US operations to generate between 30 to 40-percent of its total revenues by the end of 2003. Speaking in an interview, Didata Finance Director Malcolm Rutherford revealed that the group is looking to expand prodigiously in the North American […]

[Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA] Networking and interactive services group Dimension Data announced yesterday that it has signed a partnership agreement with the Nasdaq-listed Internet Security Systems (ISS) that will make the U.S. company the largest provider of managed security services in the world. The new service enables Didata to offer managed security services to its existing […]

[Nairobi, KENYA] Internet service provider AfricaOnline and Barclays Africa on Wednesday announced an alliance that will see the two companies form a common brand geared towards expanding Internet penetration in Sub-Saharan Africa. The two companies, with a combined sub-Saharan presence in 12 African countries, will form a powerful alliance extending the trend towards convergence in […]