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Wed, May 22nd 2013, 09:25 · Brandon Gregory

SABC will pay back loan, ready for DTT migration – Pule

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will pay back the entirety of its government guaranteed loan in the next four months, communications minister Dina Pule said in her budget vote speech. → Read more
Tue, May 21st 2013, 09:34 · Nanine Steenkamp

NRF partners with ESRF

The South African National Research Foundation (NRF) has gained access to European technology research through an agreement with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). → Read more
Fri, May 17th 2013, 08:56 · Brandon Gregory

DA: South Africa’s research capacity is too low

South Africa’s research capacity is too low, according to Juanita Terblanche, shadow minister of Science and Technology for the Democratic Alliance (DA), meaning the country is missing a number of planned targets. → Read more
Wed, May 8th 2013, 09:38 · Kamau Mbote

BitTorrent heads to monetization by releasing bundles

BitTorrent is stepping up its monetisation efforts by releasing a new content packaging format called BitTorrent Bundle, in alpha mode. → Read more
Tue, April 16th 2013, 11:38 · Nanine Steenkamp

SA education system has its head in the sand, claims parent

A South African parent has expressed his concern that the lack of IT education in the country could prevent his coding expert son from pursuing his dream. → Read more
Fri, April 5th 2013, 11:34 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mars mission deterred by sunblock

NASA engineers studying Mars have been forced to take a break as their sight of the Red Planet is blocked by solar conjunction during April. → Read more
Fri, April 5th 2013, 09:43 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan PPS denies allocating inauguration signal to private broadcaster

The Kenyan president’s press office has denied reports a private broadcaster had acquired broadcast signal exclusivity for Monday’s inauguration of president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta. → Read more
Tue, April 2nd 2013, 13:35 · Brandon Gregory

RadioAstron agreement signed between Russia and South Africa

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has signed an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) which will see the latter provide hardware for upgrading the antenna or tracking station for compatibility with the RadioAstron satellite, with SANSA) operating the tracking station while maintaining hardware. → Read more
Wed, March 20th 2013, 08:03 · Gabriella Mulligan

Network operators must focus on building broadband backbone across South Africa

Network operators in South Africa must stop focusing solely on Gauteng, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, as impending national developments require improved broadband access in other parts of the country, according to FibreCo. → Read more
Wed, March 13th 2013, 14:24 · Nanine Steenkamp

#hackSTB kicks off 2013 series

South African tech event #hackSTB restarted for 2013 yesterday evening, March 12, with software, interactive digital and tech startup presentations. → Read more
Thu, February 21st 2013, 15:00 · Nanine Steenkamp

NASA to open G+ space conversation

Space fanatics around the world will be able to interact with orbiting astronauts as NASA hosts a Google+ Hangout from on Friday (tomorrow) from 10.30am-11.30am EDT. → Read more
Mon, December 24th 2012, 07:04 · HumanIPO

African Tech Story of the Year

Technology is increasingly touching people’s lives and the workplace in different ways, meaning even the most subtle changes or developments can have big impacts on millions of people. The HumanIPO team pick their stand-out stories of 2012. → Read more
Mon, December 24th 2012, 06:13 · HumanIPO

African Tech Deal of the Year

Technology business deals or partnerships give clues and insight into how a particular company or set of companies have been performing, and changes in ownership can have big effects on the market and the consumer. The HumanIPO team pick their top deals. → Read more
Tue, September 25th 2012, 16:01 · Paul Adepoju

Etisalat Nigeria improves service delivery using Oracle technology

Etisalat, Nigeria’s third largest telecommunications corporation, has announced it is switching to Oracle Communications Data Model on Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 Half Rack to increase the speed at which it analyses its growing data volume. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd 2012, 12:10 · Tefo Mohapi

Etisalat Nigeria uses Oracle solution to accelerate data retrieval and analysis by 99%

Oracle Communications announced on Wednesday that Etisalat Nigeria, a leading Nigerian telecommunications service provider, has deployed and gone live with Oracle Communications Data Model solution. → Read more
Wed, August 22nd 2012, 13:51 · HumanIPO

SA’s digital TV launch set for September

South Africa’s digital terrestrial television (DTT) will be launched on September 26 and 27, the Department of Communications (DoC) has revealed. → Read more
Mon, August 6th 2012, 11:19 · Dan Sudi

Wi-Fi network to be rolled out across Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is set to receive Wi-Fi Network after Edgewater Wireless Systems confirmed to have been paid US$4.9 million by Edgewater Wireless Systems to facilitate the project. → Read more
Wed, August 1st 2012, 04:00 · Dan Sudi

Telkom SA’s latest IP-based solution, SpaceStream Home, launched

Telkom South Africa has launched its “latest” Internet Protocol (IP) device brand named SpaceStream Home. → Read more
Fri, July 27th 2012, 13:17 · HumanIPO

World’s most powerful telescope inspiring SA’s young techies

Almost 80 kilometres away from Carnarvon in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, where more than 5900 residents are jobless and good opportunities take a lifetime to resurface, the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), undergoes installation. → Read more
Thu, July 26th 2012, 06:57 · HumanIPO

Cameroon-based developers make TV viewing interactive, in real-time

A new platform named Djoss.tv, which lets TV viewers discuss aired programs in real time, is poised to change misconceptions that watching TV can be “boring or result to health-related complications.” → Read more