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Sat, May 26th, 08:16 · HumanIPO

Sage Pastel’s new app enabling tracking of salaries using mobile phones

Sage Pastel, a global business solutions provider, has developed a new mobile-based human resource solution called Sage VIP it says is set for launch in July in Nairobi, Kenya. → Read more
Fri, May 25th, 16:06 · HumanIPO

IMImobile honoured at Cloud Africa Awards in SA

IMImobile, a global mobile data technology infrastructure and solutions provider, last night won the Multimedia Content Management Solution of the Year award at the Cloud Africa Awards hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
Fri, May 25th, 12:25 · HumanIPO

Africa’s premier health care app wins 2012 Ericsson Application Awards

MedAfrica, a mobile health-care app developed by Kenya-based Shimba Technologies, has won the 2012 Ericsson Application Awards first prize in the company category. → Read more
Fri, May 25th, 11:10 · HumanIPO

Kenya now resorts to installing CCTV in cities to curb Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab

Major Kenyan cities are set to benefit from CCTV camera installations to help fight terrorism and crime-related activities. This follows the US$100 million grant given to Kenya by the People’s Republic of China to curb terrorism. → Read more
Fri, May 25th, 10:21 · HumanIPO

Airtel Uganda lowers calling rates to African destinations

Airtel Uganda has announced a new calling rate to all African destinations widely expected to cut costs for Ugandan’s looking to make voice calls across the continent. → Read more
Fri, May 25th, 08:00 · HumanIPO

Uganda’s radios hailed for fostering progress in a once war-torn nation

Despite being one of the smallest countries in Africa in terms of size, Uganda has more than 244 radio stations making it the nation with one of the highest number of local radio stations in the continent. → Read more
Thu, May 24th, 17:50 · HumanIPO

Agencies develop weather alert systems to cut Lake Victoria fishing fatalities

Six agencies operating in Uganda are partnering to launch a weather alert service expected to cut down on the number of fatal accidents associated with fishing in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest freshwater lake. → Read more
Thu, May 24th, 13:08 · HumanIPO

Celltick gets a new VP as battle for Africa’s mobile market heats up

Celltick, a global mobile home screen marketing company, has appointed a new VP for Africa. The company yesterday said the appointment of Moshe Rint comes as part of its strategy to extend its influence in the continent’s fast-paced mobile market. → Read more
Thu, May 24th, 10:02 · HumanIPO

Mauritius sets deadline for 8-digit mobile numbering system migration

Mauritius’ Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) says the country is now ready to move to the 8-digit phone numbering protocol and has since set the deadline for the country's telephone network operators to migrate. The three operators now have until September 1, 2013. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 17:07 · HumanIPO

Over 200 Africa’s delegates to converge in Nairobi for next week’s OIAS

Over 200 top policy makers, developers, entrepreneurs and private enterprises will converge in Nairobi next week for the second Open Innovation Africa Summit (OIAS). → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 16:09 · HumanIPO

Over 13000 students to receive free laptops in Namibia

More than 13,000 students at the University of Namibia (UNAM) are set to receive free laptops, as well as benefit from unlimited wireless network. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 15:40 · HumanIPO

World’s top cloud computing firm to showcase at Benin bound eLearning Africa

Wyse, a global leader in cloud computing, today said it will be exhibiting its latest digital classroom solutions it developed in partnership with Microsoft at this year’s eLearning Africa, the continent’s premier annual ICT-enhanced learning forum, slated for May 23 in Cotonou, Benin. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 12:12 · HumanIPO

Ericsson, Tigo to connect 30,000 in northern Ghana

Millennium Village Project, a nonprofit organization committed to helping rural African communities lift themselves out of extreme poverty, has been established in northern Ghana to connect over 30, 000 people living in the region’s rural villages with Internet. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 11:00 · HumanIPO

SA’s new multipurpose smartcard IDs poised to cut crime rate

South Africa's government is trailing a new identification system in the country set to enable South Africans move around with a multipurpose identity card. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 10:27 · HumanIPO

GLOBA SMS money transfer to service Africa’s unbanked population

Started just five years ago in SA as a small company, Globa, now an international money transfer and mobile payment platform, continues to grow rapidly changing every stone unturned in the money transfer sector. The firm is now looking to go global after taking over the whole of Africa first. → Read more
Wed, May 23rd, 08:00 · HumanIPO

Three investors buy into Musoni, Kenya’s first mobile-based moneylender

Kenya’s first microfinance institution to provide financial services to the poor entirely via mobile phones, Musoni Kenya, has secured itself funding from three new investors. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 16:51 · HumanIPO

The 2012 eLearning report to be unveiled tomorrow in Benin

The eLearning Africa 2012 report set to give the status of ICT application in the education system in Africa will be unveiled tomorrow in Cotonou, Benin, during the opening session of the eLearning Africa conference. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 16:37 · HumanIPO

Ghana to host fifth AITEC conference next week

The fifth of its kind, Aitec Banking and Mobile Money West Africa conference, the region’s leading forum, is scheduled to take place in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday next week. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 13:02 · HumanIPO

Cape Town to mentor entrepreneurs through a new portal

South Africa’s Cape Town city has launched a new Web portal, dubbed Cape Town Activa Web Portal, complete with online resources, tools and links for use by the business people. → Read more
Tue, May 22nd, 10:30 · HumanIPO

High-speed broadband platform set for launch across Sub-Saharan Africa

Eutelsat Communications, a France-based telecommunications company, Monday announced plans to launch a new broadband platform set to extend high-speed Internet across Sub-Saharan Africa. → Read more