Articles by Chris Udemans, Page 31
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Tue, February 18th, 05:00 · Chris Udemans
Mobiles do not cause cancer – study
The use of mobile phones and living in close proximity to cellular base stations do not cause cancer, according to a study spanning 11 years. → Read more
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Mon, February 17th, 11:00 · Chris Udemans
Kickstarter site hacked
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has announced its website has been hacked, though it assures users no credit card data was compromised. → Read more
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Sun, February 16th, 08:00 · Chris Udemans
FEATURE: The week in startups 16/02/2014
This week African startups have seen invitations to events all over the world, from Silicon Valley to Milan, where a number of startups will be exposed to international trends. → Read more
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Sat, February 15th, 08:42 · Chris Udemans
MTN to provide free Wikipedia
South African mobile operator MTN has announced it will be providing its subscribers with free access to Wikipedia after receiving a neknomination from Five Roses Tea. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 18:20 · Chris Udemans
Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered
A vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 10 targeting an Americans war veterans website has been discovered by internet security company FireEye. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 16:20 · Chris Udemans
iHub in world’s 50 most innovative companies
Kenyan startup incubator iHub has made it into Fast Company’s 2014 Top 50 Most Innovative companies list, the only African company to be featured. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 14:20 · Chris Udemans
Standard Bank Bitcoin platform will not be made public
South Africa’s Standard Bank has said it is not planning to make a Bitcoin trading platform it has been piloting internally available to the public. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 13:00 · Chris Udemans
MTN goes to court over MTRs
South African mobile operator MTN has appealed to the High Court to issue an interim order postponing the new mobile termination rates (MTR) proposed by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA). → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 11:40 · Chris Udemans
SA fibre network to expand – Zuma
South African President Jacob Zuma used his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last night to say the country’s fibre optic network will expand significantly in the years ahead, however he failed to give any details about the proposed expansion. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 09:00 · Chris Udemans
Vodacom launches vouchercloud app in SA
Vodacom South Africa has announced the launch of vouchercloud, a smartphone app that uses location information to find local deals. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 05:00 · Chris Udemans
Motorola Mobility CEO moving to Dropbox – report
Cloud solutions provider Dropbox plans to name Dennis Woodside, chief executive officer (CEO) of Motorola Mobility, as its first chief operating officer (COO), according to a report. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 15:40 · Chris Udemans
Blackbox to run 2 programme cycles this year
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Blackbox Connect has announced the extension of its partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs in order to launch two programme cycles during 2014, hoping to empower more startups from around the world. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 14:20 · Chris Udemans
Kenya’s Nakuru County gets free Wi-Fi
Kenya’s Nakuru County will be receiving free Wi-Fi for up to a month as part of a partnership between the Nakuru County government, the State House’s Department of Communications and Infonet Africa. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 13:40 · Chris Udemans
Standard Bank piloting Bitcoin trading platform
South Africa’s Standard Bank has set up an experimental internal Bitcoin trading platform, according to a presentation given at the 2014 Finovation Europe conference in London. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 13:00 · Chris Udemans
Online banking, mobile OS malware rising
Online banking and mobile operating system (OS) malware saw a marked increase during 2013, according to a TrendLabs study. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 10:20 · Chris Udemans
Millicom sees 8% revenue growth
Millicom Africa has reported an eight per cent increase in revenue in the final quarter of 2013 and an eleven per cent growth in mobile customers. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 09:40 · Chris Udemans
Dimension Data to sell distribution business
South African information technology firm Dimension Data has announced it will sell its distribution business Express Data to Australian hardware distributor Dicker Data for an undisclosed price. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 09:00 · Chris Udemans
SA’s Folup develops medical monitoring platform
South African startup Folup has developed a platform for medical patients to monitor their own health metrics and for physicians to view the data in real time, providing an efficient way for patients to track changes in their lives on a daily basis. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 07:00 · Chris Udemans
MEA mobile data traffic growth to be highest globally
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) is forecast to experience mobile data traffic growth rates of 77 per cent by the end of 2017, the highest rate in any region, according to a Cisco study. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 06:00 · Chris Udemans
Bitcoin hit by DoS attacks
A number of Bitcoin exchanges have temporarily suspended operations after a series of denial of service (DoS) attacks taking advantage of Bitcoin’s transaction malleability and relaying mutated versions of transactions. → Read more
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