A virtual world where US students learn about palaeontology, biology and culture has been using BGAN to get them involved in real-life scientific investigations in Africa.

According to forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media, mobile subscription growth is still set to increase by 26.6 per cent year-on-year.

IMPALA, the International MHEG Promotion Alliance, recently announced that South Africa – via its Digital Dzonga Advisory Council – has selected MHEG-5 as the interactive TV middleware for its digital switchover.

Spinoza said, "Nature abhors a vacuum" - in much of Africa, for too long there was an information vacuum; Central and Western countries, in particular, have lacked a real landline infrastructure.

A Masters student from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, has found a way to improve the performance of one of the world's leading search engines.