Articles by Elly Okutoyi

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Tue, August 28th, 14:35 · Elly Okutoyi

VoguePay vows to upset online payments in Nigeria

Nigeria-based company Afrisoft Interactive has vowed to disrupt the way online payments are carried out considering that a majority of African countries cannot use international platforms such as PayPal. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 09:34 · Elly Okutoyi

Nigerian music streaming service iROKING hits 100,000 registered users

World’s top online distributor of Nigerian music iROKING has announced it has reached its 100,000-subscriber milestone barely seven months after launching. → Read more
Tue, August 28th, 07:35 · Elly Okutoyi

Mobile technology to help Nigerian Business women

The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women has said it will be launching a new mobile phone service in partnership with Nokia and MTN Nigeria to help women looking to grow their small-scale enterprises in Nigeria. → Read more
Mon, August 27th, 12:56 · Elly Okutoyi

Near Field Communication technology catches up in Kenya

Kenyans today embrace the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology more than before thanks to the advancements in mobile and Internet technology, credited for having transformed the society into a more a cashless transaction economy. → Read more
Mon, August 27th, 07:49 · Elly Okutoyi

2nd Freedom Online Coalition Conference to be held in Kenya

Kenya has finalised on plans to host the 2nd Freedom Online Coalition Conference scheduled for September 6 and 7 at the United Nations Complex in the capital Nairobi. → Read more
Sat, August 25th, 06:59 · Elly Okutoyi

Zimbabwe announces US$24 million tender for base station installations

Zimbabwe has officially announced a US$24-million tender for the erection of base stations expected to improve network penetration in the country. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 09:18 · Elly Okutoyi

Etisalat Egypt launches its first ever branded smartphone

Egypt’s Mobile operator Etisalat Egypt has announced its first ever branded smartphone running on the Android operating system intended to offer high powered smartphones at an affordable price to its subscribers. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 08:27 · Elly Okutoyi

Mini satellite launched in SA for space weather research

South Africa is set launch a mini satellite from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in November to be used for collecting information on space weather. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 13:37 · Elly Okutoyi

Airtel Kenya partners with Co-op bank in mobile money

Airtel Kenya has entered into a deal with Co-operative Bank that will see mobile money subscribers deposit and withdraw money directly from their Bank accounts, using their Airtel lines. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 11:57 · Elly Okutoyi

Safaricom tightens security on M-Pesa with Fraud Management system

Kenya’s giant network operator Safaricom has signed a deal with a UK-based technology company Neural Technologies that will see the latter develop and implement a fraud management system for M-Pesa mobile money service. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 08:52 · Elly Okutoyi

Africa’s Savannah Fund contributes to biNu Mobile’s US$2 million investment

biNu Mobile, a startup that builds the mobile app platform that brings iPhone-like experiences to low-end smartphones and feature phones, has secured US$2 million investment from Savannah Fund and Tomorrow Ventures -- seed investment firms from Africa and America respectively. → Read more
Wed, August 22nd, 13:48 · Elly Okutoyi

70 Nigerian BlackBerry app developers trained by RIM

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that it has trained 70 Nigerian youth entrepreneurs at a developer training forum. → Read more
Wed, August 22nd, 13:03 · Elly Okutoyi

Nigeria boasts of US$25 Billion investment in telecommunications

Nigeria continues to maintain its position as Africa’s largest mobile market with investments now at US$25 billion in the telecommunications sector. → Read more
Wed, August 22nd, 10:12 · Elly Okutoyi

Zimbabwe may not meet 2015 digital broadcasting deadline

It has now been revealed that Zimbabwe may not meet the 2015 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) deadline designated for analogue to digital broadcasting migration. → Read more
Wed, August 22nd, 05:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Airtel to lay additional 2000km of cable in Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria has announced of plans to lay an additional 2,000 kilometres of cable on its fibre-optic cable system currently serving nearly 20 million of its subscribers in Nigeria. → Read more
Tue, August 21st, 08:51 · Elly Okutoyi

Full-scale campaign for mobile birth registration starts in Kenya

Kenyan parents can now access birth certificates of their newborns on their phones thanks to a project by PLAN International and World Health Organization (WHO). → Read more
Fri, August 17th, 13:30 · Elly Okutoyi

Nigerian games startup to expand to Kenya and SA

Nigeria continues to prove to the world of their fast-paced innovations with yet another startup dubbed Maliyo Games, looking to expand its frontiers, now eyeing Kenya and South Africa. → Read more
Fri, August 17th, 10:28 · Elly Okutoyi

GIS-based enumeration kicks off in Rwanda’s 2012 census

Rwanda has officially started its fourth nationwide Population and Housing Census using GPS-based data capturing technology to map out the Enumeration Areas (EA). → Read more
Fri, August 17th, 04:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Digital birth registration for Botswana

Botswana has officially launched digital registration services in four of the country’s hospital, in a bid to get more births registered, and eliminate the delays in the submission of birth and death certificates. → Read more
Thu, August 16th, 12:53 · Elly Okutoyi

Nigeria broadband developments attracts the attention of US networking firm

US networking firm Transition Networks USA on seeing the great developments and potentials in Nigeria’s Internet market, has partnered with a Nigeria-based firm Teledom International Limited to build a network assembly plant in the country. → Read more