The BRCK is a small, lightweight box-shaped modem about the size of a real brick designed for portability. It has been developed by software company Ushahidi and billed as a personal backup generator for the internet.

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be a radio telescope, instead of seeing light waves, it will make pictures from radio waves. It will allow astronomers to see back in time before the first stars and galaxies were formed.

The majority of the SKA, the full dish array and the dense aperture array, will be built in Africa with the highest concentration of receivers  being constructred in Northern Cape Province about 80km from the town of Carnarvon.

The video outlines the economic impact this mega project is having on South Africa.

Safaricom has announced bumper profits recording a pre-tax profit of Sh25.5bn and a turnover of Sh124.3bn, which is the highest result recorded by a Kenyan firm in one trading year.

Chief Executive Officer Bob Collymore says his company is not just about making big profits. It is looking to develop new products and services as well as maintain the quality of its core services.

Ina an interview with NTV’s Wallace Kantai, Collymore talks about what is next for the Kenyan mobile communications company which brought the country its first successful mobile money transfer service M-PESA.

The report highlights the fact Africa is standing on the edge of enormous opportunity and African policy makers and their partners have critical choices to make.

They can either invest their natural resource revenue in people to generate jobs and opportunities for millions in present and future generations. Or they can squander this opportunity, allowing jobless growth and inequality to take root.

The new smartphone has a host of features and has been specifically developed to redefine the way we live. The GALAXY S4 aims to make every moment of  life meaningful. The companys says it understands the value of relationships, enables true connections with friends and family, and believes in the importance of effortless experience.

Highly crafted design with a larger screen and battery, thin bezel, housed in a light 130g and slim 7.9mm chassis. The new Samsung GALAXY S4 is slimmer, yet stronger.

 

The 200 villagers along with representatives of various organisations involved in the programme and many of Cameroon’s ministers and officials celebrated the advent of solar power in the village at a special inauguration event.

Pitti Gare, which is not connected to the national electricity network, has been provided with solar power which gives homes up to eight hours of light a night and provides villagers with the ability to charge their  mobile phones. It is hoped the solution will eventually supply the school and clinic.

A collaboration between IBM and ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy, have teamed up to establish DOME and create a sophisticated IT system, requiring multiple breakthroughs, that they hope will become the computer system for the SKA project.

This video explains the DOME project and describes how this work could help solve a number of the challenges posed by Big Data.

If ASTRON and IBM can handle SKA, the biggest data project ever contemplated, their thinking may be applied to other Big Data projects around the world and could ultimately benefit a range of industries.

IBM has an eye to the universe in major scientific project

However, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President George Ferreira in a recent interview with Cape Media and BN Radio revealed his goal of pushing Samsung into the top five.

Ferreira outlined Samsung’s strategy to grow its African business by 15-16 per cent every two years and his hopes to transform its fortunes into a $10 billion business by 2015.

He also spoke about the company’s very active Corporate Social Responsibility programme and its healthy competition with all the other major electronics players including Apple.

The award recognizes Standard Bank Group's capabilities and achievements in helping implement KCM's brownfields expansion project in Zambia's copper belt to re-establish mining operations, and complete the development of the Konkola Deep Mining Project. 

Once the expansion project is complete, KCM will double its production to 400,000 tonnes of copper per year and extend the mine's life by 23 years. 

KCM was purchased by Vedanta Resources Plc in November 2004 and the fully integrated copper operations include a number of open pit mines, a large underground mine, leaching plant, a state of the art new flash smelter, modernized concentrators, a modernized refinery and a sulphuric acid plant. 

Brad Breetzke, Standard Bank Group's Head of Mining and Metals Finance, said highlights of the deal are that this is the single largest export credit backed underwrite by the Export Credit Insurance Corporation and the deal will result in Konkola Copper Mines becoming one of the top ten copper producers in the world, as well as one of the lowest-cost producers. 

The enigmatic leader of one of the world’s leading technology companies was in Johannesburg at the beginning of February for the IBM CIO Leadership Exchange.

During that event, she praised African businesses for grabbing the technology bull by its horns and harnessing its power to transform their industries.

She also revealed that IBM is seeking to widen its footprint in Africa where the emerging economy is presenting many opportunities for companies like hers.

In her interview with Ms Hempel, she refers to the opening of IBM’s 12th research centre in Nairobi, Kenya, which opened last year. She also gives insights as to how she keeps her eye on the long term strategy for IBM.

The four special documentaries will follow the exploits of participants in the leadership programme Desmond Tutu leads, which attempts to build a new network of African leaders who are together committed to tackling their countries' most stubborn problems.

Viewers will witness the legendary archbishop pass the baton of moral leadership to these emerging leaders who are drawn from across Africa.

Once they pledge themselves to Tutu's mission, the participants are put through group tasks designed to bring out their true colours - from conducting a choir to cooking under pressure.

They are provoked to re-examine their opinions in debates on the most controversial 'African' issues - racial hierarchy, corruption, privilege, and Western democracy. This experiment also pushes them out of their comfort zones emotionally, culturally and intellectually.

With exclusive access, the series follows Tutu's class of 2012, focusing in particular detail on the lives of five very different participants, as together they are coached to become a 'moral task force' for Africa. The series will begin on January 10th 2013.

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