Featuring five free integrated Microsoft experiences with spacious 5-inch display and a 5 MP front facing camera, Microsoft devices yesterday announced the introduction of its latest flagships, Lumia 535 and Lumia 535 Dual SIM smart phones running the latest Windows Phone 8.1 operating system.

Latest report by the Ericsson 2014 Networked Society City Index has ranked forty cities, measuring their ICT maturity in terms of leverage from ICT investments in economic, social and environmental development: the “triple bottom line” effect.

Ms Ann Cotton, OBE, Founder and President of Camfed, the Campaign for Female Education, has been named the 2014 WISE Prize for Education Laureate.

To avoid market and company failures in the competitive mobile phone ecosystem, the Group Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group, Sifisco Dabengwa at the just concluded GSMA Mobile 360 Series Africa held in Cape Town, South Africa, has called for consolidation among phone operators.

One of the world leaders in securing the Internet, Check Point has pledged support to stamp out cyber attacks with threat emulation , a critical technique in achieving more effective network security.

For a safe and responsible mobile money ecosystem, the GSMA has launched a Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers with the aim of establishing common business principles that all mobile money providers would commit to implementing.

Cape Town, South Africa: Africa’s journey to digital inclusion may be derailed unless many issues including network work infrastructure and government policy , taxation, locally relevant content among others were resolved, the Senior Director, Mobile for Development of GSMA, David Taverner has said.

While mobile industry contributes 5.4 percent to the African Gross Domestic Product, GDP, a new GSMA report released yesterday at the ongoing Mobile 360-Africa event holding in Cape Town, South Africa has projected that the number of unique mobile subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa would pass the half billion mark in 2020 as mobile services become increasingly affordable and accessible to millions of currently unconnected citizens across the region.

Award-winning Nigerian mobile games company, Gamsole, has launched a new competition offering US$4,000 in prizes and career opportunities for five talented illustrators.
Founded by Abiola Olaniran, Nigeria’s highest paid Windows game developer, Gamsole creates games for the Windows phone platform, taking advantage of its fast growth and unsaturated gaming market.

In line with bridging the gender gap in ICT across Africa, Microsoft 4Afrika has launched the new EmployMentor program in Kenya, where over 150 female graduate students from 24 universities across Kenya are expected to benefit .