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Zalego and Tecno award Kenyan developers

Tecno and Zalego have awarded 13 applications in Kenya’s Afmobi challenge which has been running in Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia.

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Guest Post: Long John Bitcoin – Pirates must go high tech

Duncan Arthur is an independent payments, mobile and African banking professional who has worked at Absa, Standard Bank Africa and Vodacom (more)

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More media companies want Google to pay for news

Google might be forced to pay for the news content available on Google News, as Portuguese media companies push for the internet giant to (more)

1 day 16 hours ago

#oscarpistorius takes over Twitter again

#oscarpistorius is trending on South African Twitter after a court eased his bail conditions, prompting outrage on the microblogging site.

2 days ago

Female students tech inspired by GGDCPT, twitter report released

The March event of Geek Girl Dinners in Cape Town (GGDCPT) this week was attended by a number of school and university students for the (more)

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The challenges of implementing LTE in Africa

Adewale Olorundare, head of the solutions sales team for Starcomms in Nigeria, is set to speak at the LTE Africa conference in Cape Town, (more)

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BlackBerry co-founder quits

BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis will step down from the company’s board as of May in order to launch his new business venture, the (more)

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Northern Tanzania to switch off analogue signals

The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has stated it will switch off the analogue signal in Kilimanjaro and Arusha on (more)

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Presidency.gov.za confirms Mandela hospitalised, Twitter reacts

The South African presidency has confirmed via its official website that Nelson Mandela has been readmitted to hospital, prompting an (more)

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BlackBerry thwarts Liqui-Fruit advertising campaign

Liqui-Fruit, the fruit juice company, has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to withdraw their blackberry fruit (more)

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guru-g open to SA investment

Indian educational startup guru-g believes their product will work well in South Africa, Amruth B R, chief product architect, told HumanIPO (more)

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Prosecutor in Assange’s case quits unexpectedly

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s trial has taken a surprising twist after the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Nye quit in unclear (more)

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Botswana’s US$37.5 million undersea cable to be live in May

Botswana is set to launch its US$37.5 million undersea cable in mid- May, a move expected to slash internet connection rates and provide (more)

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Women in Rwanda challenged to embrace male dominated ICT field

The dominance of men in the ICT field in Rwanda has been challenged by Ann Mei Chang, the senior advisor for Women and Technology in the US (more)

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Five DA mayors oppose tolls in Western Cape

The Democratic Alliance (DA) said today through Facebook and Twitter five mayors unconditionally oppose the proposed N1 and N2 Winelands (more)

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Solar Ear plans expansion to East, West Africa

Batswana solar-powered hearing device startup Solar Ear is looking at expanding into East and West Africa to supply Africans with solar (more)

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Telkom makes CEO appointment

Former Vodacom managing director Sipho Maseko has been appointed Telkom Group’s long-awaited new chief executive and will take charge (more)

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Blue Bamboo compatible with more than 60 Apple MFi apps on iTunes

The world’s first payment device manufacturer to obtain MFi ((Made for iPhone, Made for iPad, and Made for iPod) certification, Blue (more)

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Nigeria is still a haven of cyber criminals – national security adviser

Nigeria’s national security adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, has said despite all the efforts of the nation’s various agencies in tackling (more)

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Africa is the future, says global entrepreneur

American entrepreneur Daniel Epstein, founder of the Unreasonable Institute, told HumanIPO he believes Africa has great opportunities.

2 days ago

NITDA promotes sustainable and secure online transactions in Nigeria with PKI

Nigeria’s National Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has announced its readiness to introduce Public Key (more)

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Pule: Mngqibisa is not my boyfriend

Dina Pule, South Africa’s communications minister, has denied Phosane Mngqibisa is her romantic partner, as was alleged by the Sunday (more)

2 days ago

Cross industry group formed to domesticate ICT products and services

A multi-sectorial partnership initiative, Nigeria Content Advocacy Initiative (NiCADI), has been formed by various players in Nigeria’s (more)

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Spam blocker suffers largest cyber attack ever

Global internet services have been slowed down after one of the largest cyber attacks in history with the targeting of a spam blocking (more)

2 days ago

Electronic voter registration takes centre stage in day one of Kenya’s Presidential petition

Kenya’s electoral body, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), has been accused by the prime minister, Raila Odinga, (more)

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Divers arrested on suspicion of cable sabotage

Three divers have been arrested off the coast of Egypt accused of trying to cut through an undersea internet cable.

2 days ago

Nigeria Ondo state spent US$6 million on smartcard project

Ondo State in Nigeria has spent NGN950 million (US$6 million) to deploy a smartcard for the Welfare Services Management named Kaaddi (more)

2 days ago

Female ‘difference’ not an obstacle, says SA male developer

South African Clint Lynch, senior developer at Realm Digital, believes being a woman should not keep females from entering the tech space (more)

2 days ago

MTN Link Forum honours winners of MTN Afrinolly Short Film Competition

Winners of the MTN Afrinolly Short Film Competition have collected their awards and prize money from the organisers, FansConnectOnline.

2 days ago

MasterCard launches second wave of Project Inspire

MasterCard and UN Women Singapore kicked off the second wave of Project Inspire yesterday, setting aside US$25,000 for the woman that will (more)

2 days ago

Kim Kardashian denies posting tweet that insults Nigeria

Kim Kardashian has dissociated herself from a controversial tweet circulating on social media which insults Nigeria and its women.

2 days ago

West Africa Com becomes Connecting West Africa

The conference formerly known as West and Central Africa Com has been rebranded as Connecting West Africa in its tenth year and will be (more)

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Spam activity increased in February according to report

Spammers have stepped up activities after several months of decline, according to a report by Kaspersky Lab.

2 days ago

Gemalto selected by Safaricom to offer customers back-up services

Kenya’s Safaricom will employ Gemalto’s LinqUs Cloud Backup solution to offer mobile subscribers in Kenya a back-up service for (more)

3 days ago

SABC hits a blunder with BRICS translations

Much of what was said by leaders at the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit, which is drawing to a close today, (more)

3 days ago

Big interest in SA investment follows Unreasonable visit

The entrepreneurial Unreasonable at Sea ship’s visit to South Africa has been greeted with great enthusiasm by various parties as the (more)

3 days ago

Zimbabwe’s Econet launches debit card and POS terminals

Econet, Zimbabwe’s leading mobile operator, has launched a mobile debit card described as the first of its kind as part of the (more)

3 days ago

Zuku blames Egypt cable cut for degraded service

Wananchi Online-owned Zuku, which provides services including pay TV and fibre to home internet services, has blamed the degraded state of (more)

3 days ago

Zimbabwe Stock Exchange finally launches new website

The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has finally launched a new web portal after almost two years of inactivity after suffering a hacking (more)

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Africa is Disneyland for entrepreneurs, says SAP

Global business software leader SAP opened the international entrepreneurship initiative Unreasonable at Sea meet up yesterday (Tuesday) in (more)

3 days ago

Samsung sorry for “promotional/entertainment ladies”

Samsung South Africa has apologised for its decision to involve scantily clad female dancers in a kitchen appliance launch after the show (more)

3 days ago

Sony launches flagship Xperia Z smartphone in Kenya

Sony phone lovers in Kenya can now access the flagship Xperia Z series from local stores following the launch of the model in Nairobi.

3 days ago

Vernacular radio stations put on notice for hate speech

Vernacular radio stations in Kenya have been warned over propagating hate speech and broadcasts that could encourage negative tribal (more)

3 days ago

Safaricom, Standard Group ranked most active companies on social media

Safaricom and Standard Group are among the most active users of social media among companies listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.

3 days ago

Shinn writes in detail to SABC interim board chairperson

Marian Shinn, the shadow minister of communications has written an open letter to Zandile Tshabalala, the new chairperson of the recently (more)

3 days ago

Kim Kardashian’s abusive 'tweet' causes major Nigerian uproar

A tweet supposedly posted by American reality TV star, Kim Kardashian, has sprouted a major social media outrage in Nigeria.

3 days ago

Seacom suffers new cable cut

Seacom has admitted a further cable cut occurred today, shortly after the company announced a return to full services after repairing cable (more)

3 days ago

HIFA2015 in development of open access database

Health Information For All (HIFA) Global Forums have developed HIFA Voices, which will provide an open access archive of information, after (more)

3 days ago

Female label needs to be removed in tech field, says SA programmer

South African programmer Lyndsay Lawrence, junior developer at BrandsEye and co-founder of Umonyo, feels the divide between males and (more)

3 days ago

Airtel Nigeria announces NGN100 unlimited access to WhatsApp

Airtel Nigeria has announced a new package that will allow its subscribers to access the mobile multimedia chat app WhatsApp for just (more)

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