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Samsung Electronics has partnered with MultiChoice Kenya, a pay TV company, to run a promotion that rewards consumers with a free decoder (more)
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2 days agoUbuntu smartphones to be available from October
Smartphones using the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available from October, with developers offered access to the operating (more)
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ICASA and SABS working towards new service quality report
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has failed to issue a single analysis of mobile network quality, despite (more)
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South African audio tour guide company Tourism Radio has launched a safety campaign in Cape Town targeted at educating the city’s (more)
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iTunes passes 25 billion download mark
Apple has announced that the iTunes store has passed 25 billion song downloads, with songs being downloaded at an average of 15,000 per (more)
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GTBank introduces cardless ATM withdrawals
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Leaked letter suggests MTN SA to discontinue uncapped BIS
A leaked letter suggests MTN South Africa is to discontinue its uncapped BlackBerry Internet Service next month, in spite of previously (more)
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Connecting with Zimbabwe techies problematic, says expert
The organiser of the forthcoming Zimbabwe Hack event says connecting with contacts in Zimbabwe from the United Kingdom has been difficult (more)
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Botswana team wins first place in Ericsson Apps for African City Life competition
Ericsson has announced that Botswana-based team Cyber Development scooped first place in their Apps for African City Life competition for (more)
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2 days agoKenya’s Internet users invited to participate in online opinion polls
Kenyan ICT company Ajibu Consulting Limited has launched a Web-based opinion poll, coming hard on the heels of a partnership between Google (more)
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Twitter targets TV with Bluefin acquisition
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XRX Technologies launches business tools for SMEs
Kenyan ICT solutions firm XRX Technologies has launched a business tool that enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to apply (more)
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Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and SA account for 74 percent of African fraud cases
According to a KPMG Fraud Barometer survey and report, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa account for 74 percent of all fraud type (more)
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Namibia’s information ministry making strides to close IT gap
Namibia’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) has announced it has made major steps to close the gap in (more)
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Badiliko digital initiative raising Africa’s education standards
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Nigeria’s computer professionals council tackles certificate forgery with latest security features
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Apple launches first SA digital bookstore
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Kaspersky Labs anti-virus update blocks Internet access
A Kaspersky Labs anti-virus update blocked thousands of computers running Windows XP from accessing the Internet.
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680km stretch of National Long Distance cable goes live in SA
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SA’s Vodacom reports service revenue fall, increase in group revenue
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Nigerian version of Angry Birds game to launch soon
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High Court puts muzzle on defamatory commenters on social media
South Africans will now have to take responsibility for the content they post on Facebook and Twitter after the High Court set a new legal (more)
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KNET transfers services to new satellite
Ghana’s telecommunications giant KNET has transferred its satellite services to a new high-powered digital telecommunication satellite, (more)
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MTN take full control of operator in Cyprus
South African mobile operator MTN Group has agreed a 50 percent equity deal in MTN Cyprus, giving it full control over its Mediterranean (more)
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3 days agoNew Nigerian search engine to be launched on Friday
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Real bionic man with organs unveiled in British Science Museum
An artificial pancreas, kidney and functional blood circulatory system are among the features of the world’s first bionic man.
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Valentines Day launch for Kenyan ICT master plan
The blueprint of the delayed Kenyan National ICT Master Plan will be released on February 14, more than two months after the date (more)
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UK Culture Shift to host Zimbabwe hack
A two-day Zimbabwe “ideation” and events bringing developers and artists together will be hosted by a collaboration between UK (more)
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IEC to present e-voting, e-registration findings next month
South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) is to present the findings of an investigation into e-registration and e-voting (more)
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3 days agoPublic Protector’s office confirms Edison smart meter investigation
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Investing in broadband will increase Nigeria’s GDP – expert
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Facebook to launch tracker app
Facebook is preparing to launch a smartphone application which tracks users’ movements even when not in use, according to sources, (more)
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Liberian capital to become Mano River Union Basin’s first wireless city
The government of Liberia has expressed its readiness to transform the capital city Monrovia into the first wireless city in the Mano River (more)
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Safaricom employee joins elite club of IT specialists
Jimmy Mwangondi, an IT staffer at mobile network operator Safaricom, is the only Kenyan in an elite crop of 20 Africans who hold the (more)
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Oracle to acquire Acme Packets, Ovum analyst believes acquisition will strengthen the company
Oracle is set to buy vendor Acme Packets, an acquisition which is believed to strengthen Oracle’s position with “enterprises and (more)
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IBM to work with Kenyan universities in grooming IT professionals
IBM has partnered with a number of Kenyan universities to help them “breed the next crop” of qualified IT professionals.
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Botswana to implement digital ID cards
The Botswanan government is planning to embark on a multi-million pula project to digitise the national identity card system by 2016.
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Court rules CCK can disconnect Citizen TV’s illegal transmitters
The Kenyan High Court has given the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) the go-ahead to disconnect the remaining 17 transmitters it (more)
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BlackBerry 10 analysts: “the challenge for the company will be to attract new users”
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The implications of social media hate speech surrounding Kenya’s upcoming general elections may have serious consequences, prompting the (more)
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MTN Group and other SA companies lead the way globally in committing to United Nations Global Compact
South African mobile operator, MTN Group, along with eleven other South African companies have taken the lead globally in voluntarily (more)
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SA student paper launches online news tip-off feature
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SMS-based PoS systems launched in Nigeria
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