| | | Today's headlines | Web of Terror, Part 1: Extremists take to the Net
IM at Work, Part 2: Tools for Locking Down
El Watan, an Algerian success story
Beware of data dumpster divers
Rand to shore up Zimbabwe dollar?
ABC called for – only to be ignored
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ABC called for – only to be ignored
The creation of an Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC or OJD in French) in Morocco has certainly promoted transparency, but it has failed to impact advertising revenues as hoped.
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Digital | | AFRICA On tap for Patch Tuesday: Three critical updates
Microsoft will issue six security updates on Tuesday for vulnerabilities in Office, Windows and the .Net framework for the running and building of applications. Three are labeled "critical," two are called "important" and one is what the company called "moderate" in importance. Users should make sure they are set to receive the updates as soon as possible, suggested Shane Coursen of Kaspersky Lab.
AFRICA IM at Work, Part 2: Tools for Locking Down
Applications such as IM, Skype, and Web conferencing can deliver significant business value to business users. However, they can also introduce three main kinds of business risks: inbound threats, outbound leakage and regulatory and e-discovery non-compliance. The challenge is that many organisations have a mix of both public IM usage and enterprise IM usage.
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Media | | AFRICA Free them!
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on those African governments that have incarcerated members of the media, to free them.
AFRICA African business reporting winners announced
Diageo, one of the world's leading premium drinks businesses, announced the winners of this year's Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards towards the end of last week.
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Mobile | | AFRICA iPhone: Security predators salivating
"The biggest threat to the iPhone right now is its popularity," says Neel Mehta, team leader of the advanced research group at IBM's Internet Security Systems. "Everyone - for their own reasons or goals - will be looking for security flaws." Real risk to users will start to climb the longer the iPhone is on the market.
NIGERIA Drop calls: Militants compound operators' woes
[Jonah Iboma] Militant activities in the Niger Delta have compounded the problems of 'drop calls' in the networks of mobile operators in Nigeria as several base stations have become inaccessible in the region.
ALGERIA Algerian press goes mobile
[Zaid Zaghlami] Kuwait telephone mobile company El Wataniya, which operates in Algeria under the brand name of Nedjma, has initiated new services to readers on its network.
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Newspapers | | ALGERIA El Watan, an Algerian success story
Interview with the editor-in-chief of El Watan, one of Algeria's leading French-language daily, which continues to thrive despite a climate that does not always foster freedom of speech.
NORTH AFRICA Corrupting the press is the hallmark of Ben Ali
An interview with Omar Mestiri, who has a lot to say about Tunisia, as well as the pressure and repression faced by its free press. Kalima, the online newspaper he founded with Sihem Bensedrine in 1999, is the only outspoken Tunisian publication that covers topics, such as corruption, that angers the authorities.
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Online Media | | AFRICA Web of Terror, Part 1: Extremists take to the Net
"Organizations with sloppy server monitors are often 'zombied'" - or taken over remotely - "for jihadist purposes," explained Frank Preston, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who works with a team studying media use in terrorist cell group formation. "E-jihadists," as he calls them, then use these zombie servers to host their training manual.
NORTH AFRICA Yemeni editor beaten
A Yemeni online editor who is critical of that country's government, has been severely beaten by security agents and now faces vague terrorism charges and possible death penalty.
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Radio | | NORTH AFRICA Eritrean journalist dies in escape bid
Journalist, one of nine arrested in November 2006, dies in attempt to flee to Sudan.
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Research | | AFRICA PAMRO announces early Malawi line-up
The Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) is holding its 9th annual meeting and All Africa Media Research Conference at Lake Malawi in August this year. The keynote address will be by Amandou Mather Ba, the president of All Africa Global Media in the USA. He will be discussing internet penetration in Africa, and its impact on social behaviour and business practice.
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TV | | CENTRAL AFRICA DRC journalist detained
A DRC journalist has been detained and her camera seized while covering ceremonies marking anniversary of national independence.
EAST AFRICA SABC's new bureau to shape African stories
[Thapelo Sakoana] The newly established East African Bureau of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will help generate news within the right African perspective, said Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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| | Business | | IMF predicts total collapse of Zimbabwe economy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday predicted total collapse of Zimbabwe after describing the country as a sore thumb for the African continent, reports from Ghana indicate. [Management] | Beware of data dumpster divers
Trashing an old PC with sensitive data on the hard drive can be almost as bad as leaving it out on the pavement in terms of data security. [Management] | Rand to shore up Zimbabwe dollar?
A plan to rescue Zimbabwe's collapsing economy by pegging the Zimbabwe dollar to the South African rand is being put together by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), South Africa's Sunday Independent newspaper reported. [Management] |
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