EAST AFRICA

Sudan: Journos convicted for covering human rights violations

KHARTOUM: Judge Modather Al-Rasheed of the Khartoum press court on Wednesday, 6 July 2011, sentenced Fatima Ghazali, a journalist with the daily Al-Jarida, to a fine of 2,000 Sudanese pounds (€516) or one month in prison in case of refusal to pay. As Ghazali refused to pay the fine, she was immediately taken to Omdurman prison to begin serving her sentence. Read more >>

CENTRAL AFRICA

CAR: Prosecutor requests three-year jail terms for detained editors

BANGUI: Reporters Without Borders has strongly condemned the three-year jail sentence that a Bangui prosecutor, Arnauld Djoubaye, requested on Thursday, 7 July 2011, for Les Collines de l'Oubangui editor Faustin Bambou and Média Plus editor Emmanuel Cyrus Sandy on charges of inciting violence and hatred in a case involving President François Bozizé's son, defence minister Jean-Francis Bozizé. Read more >>

AFRICA

Are you optimising your text-only emails?

[Georgia Christian] For all the eye-catching and cutting edge design that HTML email is, offers (and mostly) delivers, anybody that has tried to create one knows that when it comes to rendering, it takes time and skill to ensure that it looks great on the subscriber's end. Even with thorough testing however, there is no guarantee that it will. Read more >>

AFRICA

Google+ launch puts pressure on Facebook

As two technology giants in Google and Facebook position themselves to dominate the social networking space, an information and communications technology expert has warned against complacency, in particular from market leader Facebook. Read more >>

AFRICA

Forbes Africa to launch this October

ABN Publishing announced recently the launch of Forbes Africa with its first edition scheduled to be on shelves in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya from 1 October 2011. The launch of Forbes Africa is a derivative of the vision of the founders of ABN Media Holdings, Zafar Siddiqi and Rakesh Wahi to build a multi-dimensional business media conglomerate in Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

Africa 'Silicon Valley for mobile money services'

[Gareth Vorster] Africa is Silicon Valley for mobile money services, according to Mayank Sharma, vice-president for Africa at mobile solutions provider Comviva. Read more >>

AFRICA

MTN partners TransferTo for cross-border top-ups

Mobile operator MTN said on Wednesday (6 July 2011) that it had partnered with airtime remittance services provider TransferTo to provide international mobile top-up services to customers across borders via TransferTo's global network. Read more >>

KENYA

Kenya: Debates from the Hansards now digitised

NAIROBI: Kenyans now have free online access to debates from the Hansards, a collection of debates that date back to the pre-independence Legislative Council. The earliest edition of the Hansard indexed is the Report of the Fourth Session of the Debates of the Legislative Council, dated November 24, 1959. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Retail giants pioneer shopping mall culture in Africa

New retail precincts across Africa are not only changing consumers' buying behaviour but also changing their social behaviour. Malls provide a venue for consumers to congregate and they're doing this in preference to other social activities. Read more >>

BOTSWANA

Clicks expands to Botswana

The Clicks Group announced on Thursday, 7 July 2011, the opening of its first store in the country. Du Toit Britz, finance executive at Clicks, was in Gaborone's Game City for the launch of Clicks. Read more >>

UNITED STATES

Netbiscuits traffic soars

RESTON, US: Netbiscuits, one of the world's leading cloud software services for cross-platform mobile sites and apps, today reports a traffic increase of 100% over the last six months. Today the company's mobile publishing platform delivers more than eight billion mobile pages per month for over 20 000 sites and apps. Read more >>

UNITED STATES

One Show Interactive quarterly entries open

NEW YORK, US: What's new for 2012? We're putting together the best jury in Interactive with a little help from our Jury Chair, Barbarian co-founder and CEO, Benjamin Palmer. To keep pace with the constantly evolving digital world we are introducing new categories including Music Videos, Best Use of Facebook, and more. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Renault switches on TomTom Live

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] By next year all TomTom equipped Renault vehicles in South Africa will be equipped with the live version of the satellite navigation system which offers a number of benefits to motorists including a real-time traffic feed. Roll-out of the new system has already commenced. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Amarok will rock the market

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Volkswagen South Africa finally unwrapped its eagerly awaited single cab Amarok bakkie during an international media launch in the rugged Fish River Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape - and, like its twin-cab fancier and more expensive sibling, the two-seater is an absolute gem. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Singita takes top honours in Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards 2011

South Africa's Singita Game Reserves has taken top honours in this year's [[http://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest US Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards 2011 readers' survey, scooping both 1st and 2nd places among the World's Top 100 Hotels, as well as securing the winning slot for Best Hotel Spa in Africa and the Middle East. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Gauteng Tourism Summit

On 21 and 22 July the Gauteng Tourism Authority and the MEC for Economic Development and Tourism are convening the 2011 Gauteng Tourism Summit in order that all key stakeholders are able to engage with the development of the Gauteng tourism strategy on a practical level. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

It all ends on 13 July 13! For a generation of fans, the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series, represents the end of an era. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Three robot steps forward, two human steps back: Transformers 3

[Kervyn Cloete] We live in a modern, fast-paced, ethereal world. A world where there are very few true certainties: death, taxes and bad movie sequels. This was exactly the case with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the second of director Michael Bay's on-screen adaptions of the classic 80's toys and cartoons about giant alien shape-shifting robots waging a secret war on earth while taking the forms of various land, sea and air vehicles. Read more >>