I am now headed back to my abode after a day at The Palms Shopping Mall in Lekki Nigeria. I had stumbled on a Facebook update from MainOne Cable just yesterday offering free broadband via Wi-Fi and so this dawn, I set-off to take “undue” advantage of the free broadband service. I was more excited [...]

At Combit Africa 2009, I gave a presentation on The impact of submarine connectivity on West Africa’s web hosting industry. The premise of the presentation was simple. The presence of more submarine fibre connectivity in West Africa would give birth to commercial data centres in the sub-region. At this time, an overwhelming majority of West [...]

BarCamp Ghana 2010, an ad-hoc gathering where attendees meet for discussions, demos and networking, will take place on December 18 2010 at the Ashesi University campus in Accra. The theme is  “Create dreams, work smart and shape the future”. Following the successes of BarCamp Ghana ’08 and BarCamp Ghana ’09, regional BarCamp events were organized [...]

e.Tv is one of the truly world-class TV channels on the African continent today, airing compelling soap-operas, blockbuster movies and much more. e.Tv has since evolved from a single free-to-air TV station in South Africa, to a pan-African network of channels with even a spin-off dedicated news service called eNews channel. From tomorrow 14th December [...]

I had the pleasure of attending Mobile Web East Africa in Nairobi Kenya, earlier this year 2010. The event turned out to be well-patronized with mobility experts mostly from East Africa descending on Nairobi for the two-day conference. Granted that we all know the impact of mobile telecoms in Africa, the Kenya event further opened [...]

Wikileaks has recently been releasing secret diplomatic cables sent from American diplomats to the State Department in the USA, causing a wild storm globally. What is WikiLeaks? WikiLeaks is a not-for-profit media organisation. Our goal is to bring important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for sources [...]

Google Inc has announced the latest iteration of its Nexus flagship smartphone, the Nexus S. The new smartphone is a product of a collaboration between Google and Samsung. The Nexus S comes pre-installed with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), operates faster, comes with a brilliant contour display that is powered by AMOLED screen technology, and also comes [...]

… a new dawn for web hosting and domain registration in Nigeria as Web4Africa acquires Nairahost 6th December 2010 Web4Africa Ltd (www.web4africa.net) today announces its 100% client acquisition of Nairahost, a company that provides domain name services and web hosting to Nigeria. Established in 2004, Nairahost started with a vision to dominate the Nigerian web [...]