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IRS develops Tax Helper Software for prompt submission of tax returns
Friday, 30 Jul, 2010 – 19:52 | No Comment

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has designed and developed a Tax Helper Software to facilitate prompt submission of tax returns by taxpayers and clients.
The application of the software system, dubbed, (Pay-As-You-Earn), facilitates the processing of …

Gov’t To Review ICT Policy
Thursday, 29 Jul, 2010 – 10:48 | No Comment

Government is now focused on increasing attention on the adoption of technologies which will protect the natural environment – otherwise known as green technology, Minister of Communications Haruna Iddrisu has said.
Cyber security and increased access …

rLG covers phone product’ vendors under ‘Umbrella’ project
Wednesday, 28 Jul, 2010 – 10:14 | No Comment

rLG Communication is extending its umbrella project to cover vendors of mobile telecom products and other young persons interested in venturing into mobile phone merchandising.
The company is currently deploying 6,000 umbrellas in all districts of …

GIPC estimates over 100,000 new jobs in second quarter
Wednesday, 28 Jul, 2010 – 9:10 | No Comment

The Ghana Investment Promotion Center is expecting more than a hundred thousand new jobs to be created from the investments that were registered between April and June this year.
The projects according to figures from the …

Annual Producer Price Index rises by 3.28 per cent
Wednesday, 28 Jul, 2010 – 8:08 | No Comment

Accra, July 28, GNA – The Annual Producer Price Index (PPI) went up by 3.28 percentage points in June, bringing the respective yearly change between June 2009 and June 2010 to 19.42, down from 16.14 …

Mobile customer growth to drop – report
Tuesday, 27 Jul, 2010 – 10:54 | No Comment

According to the Business Monitor International (BMI) report, mobile telephony customer growth in Ghana will drop between five and 10 percent this year.
The report which was entitled “Ghana Telecommunications Report Quarter 3 2010” stated that …

Minister advocates use of mobile phones for weather information dissemination
Thursday, 22 Jul, 2010 – 10:19 | No Comment

The Department of Physics of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy are jointly organizing the second “ewiem nimdie” International Summer School on the theme …

Broadband Users in Africa to reach 92 million by 2015
Tuesday, 20 Jul, 2010 – 10:02 | No Comment

According to a new report from Pyramid Research, total broadband users in Africa will increase from 40 million in 2010 to 92 million in 2015 at a CAGR of 18 percent, driven by new undersea …

E-waste documentary on Ghana gets two Emmy nominations
Monday, 19 Jul, 2010 – 9:56 | No Comment

UBC graduate journalism students Heba Elasaad, far left, Krysia Collyer, second from left, Blake Sifton, centre, and Prof. Dan McKinney, far right, spent 10 days in February in Ghana shooting a documentary on e-waste. (Courtesy …

Contribution of ICT to Ghana’s GDP difficult to estimate – Study
Thursday, 15 Jul, 2010 – 10:42 | No Comment

Contribution of ICT (Information Communication Technology) sector to Ghana’s real GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is difficult to determine despite some efforts to estimate that, a recent study has shown.
Preliminary findings of a study carried out …