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A man is being sued for keeping Twitter followers that he attracted while working for a US mobile news website.

Noah Kravitz tweeted for Phonedog as @Phonedog_Noah, but later changed his username when he left the company - taking 17,000 followers with him.

The company is now seeking damages of $2.50 (£1.60) per user, per month - a total of $370,000.

New Delhi: As part of three day Convocation of Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Amity Centre of e- Learning held "Convocation- Virtual Degree Distribution Ceremony" on December 16, 2011 overseas graduands enrolled under Pan African e- Network Project.

The Virtual Convocation took place for 136 graduands enrolled under five programmes- MBA- International Business, MBA- Finance and Control, Post Graduate Diploma in IT, Diploma in IT and Diploma in Business Administration at different venues across five Nations including Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Botswana College of Distance and Opn Learning, Botswana, University of Malawi, Malawi, Mekerere University, Uganda and Kigali Institute of Education, Rwanda.

Warid telecom on Tuesday launched its own money transfer service, adding to the revolution of transacting money in Uganda.

The mobile firm launched its WaridPesa product, and, unlike its competitors’, customers can send and receive money from any network. Speaking during the launch, minister for ICT Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, stressed the importance of technology advancement towards economic development.

Greater allocation of spectrum for mobile broadband is vital for the economic and social development of sub-Saharan Africa adding $82 billion to the region’s GDP, new findings have shown.

The findings conducted by the GSM Association (GSMA) and Plum Consulting reveal that, across the region, the release of mobile broadband spectrum in the digital dividend and the 2.6GHz bands by 2015 in sub-Saharan Africa could “Create up to 27 million new jobs, increase GDP per capita by 5.2%, which will directly lift 40 million people out of poverty by 2025.”