Articles by Elly Okutoyi

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Thu, May 31st, 05:00 · Elly Okutoyi

R72-Million invested in Dark Fibre Africa cable Infrastructure

Dark Fibre Africa has embarked on a R72 million (US$8.5 million) fibre-laying project that will see over 100 kilometres of fibre laid within South Africa’s Eastern Cape Region. → Read more
Mon, May 28th, 17:25 · Elly Okutoyi

African Startup wins Silicon Valley’s attention barely a fortnight after launch

Barely two weeks after launching, Whenpages, a global time-based platform for creating, sharing and discovering events, present and in future, has attracted the attention of at least two Silicon Valley investors. → Read more
Mon, May 28th, 14:50 · Elly Okutoyi

Digicel debuts first non-bank mobile payment system

New Zealand-based currency exchange company KlickEx and Digicel, a Telecoms service provider, in partnership with VeriFone, a global leader in electronic payment technologies, last week announced the launch of a digital merchant payment system in the Kingdom of Tonga. → Read more
Mon, May 28th, 11:15 · Elly Okutoyi

Nokia partners with Nigeria’s CCHub to start a mobile software accelerator academy

Nokia has partnered with a social innovation centre in Nigeria called Co-Creation Hub (CCHUB) to launch Africa’s first Growth Academy for early stage mobile technology startups. → Read more
Sat, May 26th, 08:52 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenya turns to satellite technology to quench thirst for water

Faced with chronic shortage of water, Kenya has now turned to satellite technology to locate and explore underground water. The satellite technology called Watex System will map water wells in Turkana, one of the country’s most affected areas. → Read more
Fri, May 25th, 07:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Zimbabwe unveils country’s first universal electronic payment system

Zimbabwe has received its first ever Universal Electronic Payment System (UEPS) thanks to a local firm, SmartPay. → Read more
Thu, May 24th, 15:35 · Elly Okutoyi

Satellite still drives broadband in Africa even with fibre cable influx

Even with the scores of fibre optic cables that have landed on the African coasts, satellites are still being used to boost Internet connectivity in the African regions, this is according to satellite operators attending the Satcom Africa conference this week in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
Thu, May 24th, 13:06 · Elly Okutoyi

FAO links with Zambia’s MTZ to offer e-Vouchers set to ease farmers’ mobility

UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Mobile Transactions Zambia (MTZ), an enterprise in Zambia focused on providing financial services, have teamed up to develop a means by which e-Vouchers can be used to provide the country’s ministry of agriculture and livestock with bicycles for use by the lead farmers. → Read more
Thu, May 24th, 08:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Country’s first ever phone-based share-trading platform launched in Kenya

AIB Capital, a Kenya-based stock broking firm, has launched the country’s first ever interactive phone-based share trading platform called AIB-Mobile set to enable users to buy and sell shares as well as monitor and top up their accounts -- using mobile phones. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 13:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Opera wins first ever African award

Opera Software, a Norwegian company best known for its mobile Web browser Opera Mini, on Saturday received its first ever African award from the Africa Technology Awards held in Johannesburg. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 15:35 · Elly Okutoyi

Malawian government seeks out a broadband partner

The Government of Malawi today officially announced of its intentions to seek a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement towards the provision of quality and affordable international broadband connectivity to the country. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 10:46 · Elly Okutoyi

SA’s communication regulator blocks Vodacom’s Freedom 99 offer launch

South African mobile telephone operator Vodacom failed to launch its new 99 cents offer due to what it termed as a technological lapse. → Read more
Mon, May 21st, 17:00 · Elly Okutoyi

New e-payment platform to launch in Zimbabwe

SmartPay had launched a new Universal Electronic Payments System (U.E.P.S) in Zimbabwe. The first of its kind in the country, it is set to help ease the banking problems currently facing the country. → Read more
Mon, May 21st, 16:22 · Elly Okutoyi

Ghana Post launches e-payment system to cushion revenue fall

Ghana Post has launched an electronic payment system expected to make it easier for mobile phone users, financial service providers and merchants relate through a platform accessible from different mobile devices. → Read more
Fri, May 18th, 18:10 · Elly Okutoyi

French firm enables a virtual tour of Egyptian pyramids

A French company called Dassault Systems has come up with an interactive virtual tour of Egypt’s Giza Plateau in a 3D Internet project using archives from the museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. → Read more
Fri, May 18th, 17:50 · Elly Okutoyi

Namibia forges ahead in Internet speed with a 4G technology

Namibia’s Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) has launched a new 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in Windhoek. This makes the country among the few in the world to have the technology, and the second in Africa. → Read more
Fri, May 18th, 10:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Online Christian course development tool launched

Acts 2 Technology, a leading resource for Christian eLearning, has launched its new online course software called Acts 2 eBridge intended for authors, speakers, preachers and ministries across the globe. → Read more
Wed, May 16th, 15:45 · Elly Okutoyi

Danish Momondo and Kenya’s NMG to link travellers to 700+ sites worldwide

Global online booking engine Momondo, and Nation Media Group, East and Central Africa’s leading media house, have come up with an online travel site dubbed TwendeTwende. → Read more
Wed, May 16th, 11:15 · Elly Okutoyi

SA’s telecom firm makes a historic entry into insurance

Financial Services Board (FSB), South Africa’s insurance regulator, has awarded Vodacom a long-term insurance license allowing the mobile telecommunications company an official entry into the country’s Insurance market. → Read more
Tue, May 15th, 18:00 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenya’s communication regulator reschedules digital migration

Kenya’s communication regulator, Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), has put forward the plan to move from analogue TV to digital broadcasting until 2013. → Read more