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Fri, October 25th, 13:00 · Tom Jackson
IBM presents smart cities report to Cape Town
A team from IBM has presented its smart city report to the City of Cape Town, three weeks after the two entities partnered to improve service delivery in the city. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 12:40 · Nanine Steenkamp
Samsung clarifies smartphone trade-in offer
Samsung has issued a clarification of its smartphone trade-in offer, confirming the opportunity is open to all smartphone owners rather than just BlackBerry users. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 12:20 · Nanine Steenkamp
Swaziland added to Google Street View
Swaziland has been added to Google Street View, becoming the fourth African country on the platform. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria’s Stanbic Bank launches mobile money platform to support international transactions
Nigeria’s Stanbic IBTC Bank has introduced a new platform that allows users of its mobile money service to perform transactions on Amazon and other international sites without using credit cards. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 11:40 · Nick Sato
Equity Bank, PayPal partnership to bring global e-commerce to Kenya
Kenya’s Equity Bank and international payment solution PayPal today officially launched a partnership that will allow merchants to transfer funds to their bank accounts from PayPal and sell to PayPal’s global customer base of more than 137 million active accounts in 193 countries. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 11:20 · Susan Mwenesi
Microsoft SA MD wants Africans to create their own jobs
Microsoft South Africa managing director (MD) Mteto Nyati has called on Africans to create jobs for themselves within the continent. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 11:00 · Brandon Gregory
DoC hosting broadband policy workshop
A workshop dedicated to the drafting of South Africa’s broadband policy is being hosted by Yunus Carrim, the minister of communications, today in Pretoria. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 10:40 · Nanine Steenkamp
Majority of companies unable to keep security failures secret
Third party pressure is causing 73 per cent of companies to make its IT security misfortunes known, leading to great damage to business reputations. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 10:20 · Brandon Gregory
Smart ID cards may be too expensive for poor – DA
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has raised concerns over the costs of the smart ID card set to replace the green bar-coded ID books, which may place unnecessary strain on the country’s poorest. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigerian telecoms accuse states of threatening operations
Gbenga Adebayo, chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), has accused state governments in the country of posing a threat to telecoms operations and slowing the development on the sector. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 09:30 · Selipha Kihagi
BlackBerry 10.2 OS update due this week
BlackBerry has announced the 10.2 OS update will be released to all BlackBerry 10 smartphones this week. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 09:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
Globethics to establish online African law library
Non-profit organisation (NPO) Globethics.net is working on the digitalisation of African laws to provide access to governmental approaches on matters of importance. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 08:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
LG announces profit increase
LG Electronics has announced a 27 per cent increase in operating profit in the third quarter as compared to 2012, led by mobile device sales but hampered by global television product uptake. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 08:00 · Brandon Gregory
Technology investment vital to online retail success
Retailers have to make business-critical decisions daily given the constant evolution of online retail, according to Christo Briedenhann, country manager for Riverbed Technology Africa. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 07:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
YouTube to launch subscription service
Google is reportedly working on the release of a YouTube subscription service, supplying on demand videos and offering unlimited access to albums and artists. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 06:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
Digital publishing conference to occur in Cape Town
A new digital publishing event will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, bringing together stakeholders to network and discuss industry-relevant issues. → Read more
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Fri, October 25th, 05:00 · Winfred Kuria
Google introduces handwriting mode to Gmail, Docs
Google has introduced a feature allowing Gmail and Google Docs users to use their own handwriting to input words, using a mouse or trackpad. → Read more
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Thu, October 24th, 20:00 · Nick Sato
Intel East Africa launches new processors at DEMO Africa
Intel East Africa has announced the launch of fourth generation processors at DEMO Africa 2013, which allow device manufacturers to produce the first fanless 2-in-1 and tablet designs based on the Core processor. → Read more
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Thu, October 24th, 19:30 · Nanine Steenkamp
Wikipedia investigating suspicious edits
English Wikipedia editors are investigating reports of alleged prejudiced editing as press relations (PR) companies promote their brands via Wikipedia. → Read more
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Thu, October 24th, 19:00 · Kamau Mbote
Leaked Westgate CCTV clips land journalists in trouble
Kenya’s inspector general of police David Kimaiyo has warned journalists over their continued use of leaked CCTV footage of the Westgate attack, cautioning that it bordered on hate speech as arrest warrants for two investigative journalists were issued. → Read more
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