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Tue, August 14th, 09:34 · HumanIPO

Prezence Digital marks 10th anniversary, launches initiative to mentor students

South Africa’s leading full-fledged digital agency Prezence Digital is set to later this month launch a student support initiative branded ‘10Teams/10Brands/10Grand,’ to mark its tenth anniversary. → Read more
Tue, August 14th, 05:00 · HumanIPO

Airtel’s Pan-African Rising Stars tourney unveiled

Airtel Africa yesterday unveiled a Pan African soccer tourney dubbed Airtel Rising Stars Africa Soccer Championship, which will provide an opportunity for up-and-coming stars to display and gauge their talents. → Read more
Tue, August 14th, 04:00 · HumanIPO

Nigeria’s USPF embark on telecom facilities enhancement plan

A recent consultative forum hosted by Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), a subsidiary of Nigerian communications commission (NCC), had the organisation reveal its plans for furthering information and communication technology (ICT) development in Nigeria in the next 5 years. → Read more
Mon, August 13th, 12:39 · HumanIPO

County-based SMS advertising takes off in Kenya with Info160

Info160 is a free location based information and advertising service in Kenya founded by Nick Hargreaves Onyango. → Read more
Mon, August 13th, 09:13 · HumanIPO

Zunguz develops ‘secure’ Facebook payment cards

Facebook payment app ZunguZ is working on what it says is a more secure online payment card than credit cards. → Read more
Mon, August 13th, 04:05 · HumanIPO

Text-based birth registration service introduced for Senegal’s villages

A Swiss non-governmental organisation Aide et Action has introduced a texting service in Senegal that allows parents to send details of their newborns to registration centres to obtain birth certificates → Read more
Sat, August 11th, 06:30 · HumanIPO

Yookos launches job portal for youth, targets 20 million users by year-end

Yookos has launched a job site for youth in Africa and in the Diaspora. → Read more
Sat, August 11th, 06:00 · HumanIPO

Nigeria’s communications and environment regulators clash over telecom masts

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Environmental Standard Regulatory Agency (NESREA) have are at odds over how the country’s environmental space reserved for telecommunications purposes should be put into use. → Read more
Sat, August 11th, 05:00 · HumanIPO

Phone tapping now legal in Rwanda

Rwanda’s parliament has passed an amendment to a bill that will authorise the tapping of telephones and other private communications for security reasons. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 13:41 · HumanIPO

Village Capital’s first-ever African programme sets off in Nairobi

Village Capital Nairobi Programme 2012 began today at the GrowthHub in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 09:22 · HumanIPO

First wooden computer flatters environmentalists’ vanity

Surfing for hours on the Internet consumes much electricity and hazards the environment, this reality led to the invention of an eco-friendly wooden-framed computer. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 04:04 · HumanIPO

Goal.com goes live in Kenya, Futaa.com says they are welcome

Goal.com has launched in Kenya nearly a month after going live in Ghana, and in Nigeria in March. The world's top football news portal says the Kenyan launch comes at a time when it is spreading its wings worldwide. → Read more
Thu, August 9th, 14:43 · HumanIPO

Nigeria’s government gives in to pressure to go fully electronic

Nigeria’s Minister of Interior Affairs, Comrade Abba Moro, will this month unveil the new e-governance portal to stakeholders at a forum to be held in Lagos. → Read more
Thu, August 9th, 13:18 · HumanIPO

FrontlineSMS now in world’s key languages

Launched in June this year in English and Swahili, developers behind FrontlineSMS version 2 say the platform is being translated into some of the world’s major languages. → Read more
Thu, August 9th, 13:12 · HumanIPO

Increase in data demand hailed for MTN’s increased revenue

South Africa’s giant mobile network operator MTN has reported an increased subscriber base by 6.9 percent to 175,997 million from December 31, 2011. → Read more
Thu, August 9th, 08:46 · HumanIPO

Silicon Valley-based South Africans launch SABLE to nurture tech talents

Carlifornia-based accelerator programme the South African Business Link to Experts (SABLE) Accelerator was on Monday launched in South Africa. → Read more
Thu, August 9th, 04:01 · HumanIPO

African Innovator a new ICT magazine is launched by IT News Africa

IT News Africa, an online news site focused on technology in Africa, has launched a quarterly ICT magazine brand named the African Innovator. → Read more
Thu, August 9th, 04:00 · HumanIPO

Internet Solutions’ perceives Africa’s future Internet connectivity

Several African countries have called for the Internetix meeting, an annual meeting hosted by South Africa-based Internet firm the Internet Solutions (IS). → Read more
Wed, August 8th, 14:13 · HumanIPO

Nigeria’s Beta Computers to supply students with affordable laptops

Beta Computer has signed a partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria to distribute affordable computers to students through a student ownership scheme. → Read more
Wed, August 8th, 11:59 · HumanIPO

New iOS to be released without YouTube app

Apple has removed the YouTube app in the iOS 6 beta 4. The iOS 6 set to be released next month will be the first one to remove the app which has been on the iPhone since its launch in 2007, says 9to5 mac. → Read more