Google Play week of deals to celebrate birthday

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MTN fire latest shot in SA pre-paid price war

MTN South Africa has dropped anytime pre-paid voice calls to two cents per second as part of its One4All price plan.

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Kenya prepares for US$22 million online cargo system launch

Kenya is to launch an online cargo clearance system valued at US$22 million by the end of the year, intended to increase cross-border (more)

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SA government not doing anything to hit 2020 broadband target

The South African government is only paying “lip service” to the 2020 100 per cent broadband penetration target and will miss it badly, (more)

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Mxit 6.3 reaches one million downloads on BB

South African social app Mxit reached one million downloads on BlackBerry phones yesterday (Thursday, March 7) 84 days after its release.

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MTN commits US$1.5 billion fresh investment to improve 3G services in Nigeria

MTN Nigeria has revealed that it will boost its operations in Nigeria with an additional investment of US$1.5 billion in 3G services this (more)

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Geek Girl Dinners Cape Town chair speaks on International Women’s Day

Women in the workplace are often “overlooked” in the tech industry and need to “stand up for themselves”, says Suhaifa Naidoo, (more)

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Vodacom introduces new Power Hour deal for March

South African network operator Vodacom has introduced a new weekend discount calling offer to its customers, valid until March 31.

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Absent teacher fingerprint tracking delayed after Sadtu strike threat

The South African Public Service and Administration has announced it is delaying implementing a biometric absence-tracking system for (more)

1 day 16 hours ago

Ugandan government launch website to gauge ministry performance

The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in Uganda has created a website that will allow citizens to access information on the performance of (more)

1 day 17 hours ago

M-KOPA looking to increase market share with its solar-power solution

M-KOPA Kenya Limited, the company behind solar power panels that allow users to pay for the service via mobile banking, is looking to (more)

1 day 17 hours ago

Facebook revamps newsfeed design

Founder and chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has unveiled the redesign of the social network’s news feed in San Francisco.

1 day 18 hours ago

Vodacom leads the way in implementing renewable energy solutions

Vodacom South Africa has unveiled possibly the largest solar array of panels on a single building in Africa when it made an announcement at (more)

1 day 18 hours ago

South African local municipality website spelling blunder

A quick Google search for the eMalahleni local municipality will reveal the government website’s search results has been embarrassingly (more)

1 day 19 hours ago

Whitespace, “the Wright brothers for the web”

Jason Bagley and Adrian Myburgh are the masterminds behind Whitespace, a web designing agency in Cape Town with a focus on mobile, web and (more)

1 day 20 hours ago

Botswana sees increase in internet use

Botswanan internet usage is on an upward trend and is increasing the penetration rate in Africa, according to the latest report by (more)

1 day 20 hours ago

Facebook considering allowing users to block ads at a charge

Facebook users could have ad-free pages at a cost should a patent application filed in February 2011 come into force.

1 day 21 hours ago

Google SA's YouTube partners had a superb 2012, increasing revenue and views

Google South Africa revealed in Montecasino, Johannesburg, that in 2012 South African YouTube views grew by 80 per cent.

1 day 21 hours ago

Found Shopping now active on iOS

South African developed global shopping app Found Shopping launched on iOS last week at the Design Indaba, at Cape Town International (more)

1 day 22 hours ago

Jobberman releases a BlackBerry app

Nigeria’s top job site, Jobberman, has announced the launch of their BlackBerry application.

1 day 22 hours ago

IEBC blames server problem for increased rejected votes

The Kenya Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has blamed a server problem for the high number of rejected votes on the (more)

1 day 23 hours ago

Vision 2015: ICT to contribute 15% of Nigeria’s GDP

Eugene Juwah, executive vice president of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has predicted by 2015 the nation’s ICT sector (more)

1 day 23 hours ago

Africa’s Payments and Retail Show to begin in Johannesburg next week

All things mobile money, banking and payments in Africa will be showcased for three days in Johannesburg from Monday.

2 days ago

Forbes launches app for African market on smartphones and tablets

Forbes Magazine has launched its app version for its African edition, compatible across multiple platforms.

2 days ago

Telkom appoints new group company secretary

Part state-owned South African operator Telkom has appointed Xoliswa Makasi as group company secretary, though the company remains without (more)

2 days ago

Facebook appoints second woman to board of directors

Facebook has appointed Dr Susan Desmond-Hellmann to its board of directors, increasing the number of women on the company’s board to two.

2 days ago

Djibouti Data Center (DDC) launches

A new three tier level data centre has been launched in the East African country Djibouti, to become the first in the region to provide (more)

2 days ago

ICANN seeks Arab involvement in internet governance

The president of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has urged the Arab world to join in determining the future (more)

2 days ago

Naspers confirms investment in Nigeria’s Konga.com

South Africa-based multinational mass media company Naspers has confirmed to HumanIPO it has acquired a 50 per cent stake in Nigerian (more)

2 days ago

Telecoms companies in Ghana get stern warning from EPA on masts

Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has threatened to slam sanctions on network operators who fail to abide by the agency’s (more)

2 days ago

SA entrepreneur to appeal to DTI for favourable SMME law discussion

South African entrepreneur Heather Malcomess plans to approach the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in an attempt to alter newly (more)

2 days ago

SA slides in global cloud computing rankings

A new study shows South Africa has fallen two places to 20th out of the 24 leading IT economies in terms of cloud computing, with the (more)

2 days ago

Google to launch music streaming through YouTube

A Google music streaming service is reportedly going to be launched through YouTube later this year.

2 days ago

Certified single-click payment coming to South Africa

Cape Town startup Peach Payments are beginning the rollout of a single-click payment solution for the South African e-commerce industry.

2 days ago

“Harlem Shake” causes stir in Tunisia

Extreme Muslim “Salafi” activists and the Tunisian government have reacted strongly to a video of Tunisian secondary school students (more)

2 days ago

ICASA downplays Vodacom warnings on MTR

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) will proceed with its planned review of the mobile market with a view to (more)

2 days ago

IDC study highlights costs of pirated software

A new study by the International Data Corporation (IDC) has found pirated software is costing businesses worldwide billions of dollars, (more)

2 days ago

Google reveals details of FBI web monitoring

As part of its Transparency Report, Google has released vague data on official requests for data from the FBI under the Patriot Act.

2 days ago

Zapacab to improve SA taxi services

South African taxi ordering solution Zapacab is set to launch before April this year, seeking to provide reliable and efficient taxi (more)

2 days ago

Kenya a telecommunications powerhouse - report

Pyramid Research has described the Kenyan telecommunications sector as a powerhouse in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on network expansion and (more)

2 days ago

MTN view Myanmar as an excellent opportunity

MTN Group is among 90 companies competing for one of two mobile network licences in Southeast Asian country Myanmar, with chief executive (more)

2 days ago

Crowd-sourced election reports soar on Uchaguzi

Incident-mapping website Uchaguzi, which has been documenting the Kenyan elections, has seen crowd-sourced reports soar 480 per cent since (more)

2 days ago

Zamtel to launch LTE in Zambia

Zambia Telecommunication Company (Zamtel) plans to roll out a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network as soon as the company gets the green light (more)

2 days ago

Opera launches Android browser running on WebKit

Opera Mini has finally launched the beta version of its smartphone browser for Android gadgets, based on the WebKit browser engine, in a (more)

2 days ago

SABC illegally removed Motsoeneng - CWU

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has said the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board acted illegally in removing acting (more)

2 days ago

M-Pesa celebrates 6th birthday

As M-Pesa celebrates its sixth birthday, Safaricom chief executive officer (CEO) Bob Collymore says the service has developed “beyond any (more)

2 days ago

DoC believes they are not bad for business

The South African Department of Communications (DoC) has said they are not bad for business because no concerns have been raised with them.

2 days ago

Q&A: Marie Lora-Mungai, Buni TV founder and chief executive

HumanIPO caught up with Marie Lora-Munga, founder and chief executive of Buni TV, a Kenya-based video on demand platform.

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IEBC chairman jumps to Safaricom’s defence

Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman has absolved Safaricom of blame over the system failures during (more)

2 days ago

HTC sales down 40 per cent

HTC phone sales fell by almost 44 per cent to US$384 million in February compared to the same period in 2012, despite releasing its latest (more)

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