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Fri, February 8th, 08:14 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian telecoms comply with NCC, switch to new tariff

Telecommunications companies in Nigeria have complied with the directive of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) concerning the cost of SMS across the various networks. → Read more
Fri, February 8th, 08:01 · HumanIPO

Guest Post: Rising holiday-week app downloads may signal something much darker

Kageni Wilson is a technologist, innovator, writer, entrepreneur and trend watcher. He is the founder and CEO of ionacloud, a cloud-based file storage and sharing service. In an exclusive guest post for HumanIPO, he looks at the underlying reasons for the spike in app downloads over the Christmas period. → Read more
Fri, February 8th, 07:54 · Tefo Mohapi

BlackBerry announce SDK updates and Q10 App submissions open

BlackBerry announced at its recent annual BlackBerry Jam Europe developer event that it will be “including updates to the BlackBerry 10 developer toolkit, new benefits of the reward programs, and the opening of app submissions in BlackBerry World for the BlackBerry Q10 smartphone”. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 16:21 · Nanine Steenkamp

Tech Demo Africa 2013 open for registration

Registrations for demonstrations at Tech Demo Africa scheduled for May this year are now open, encouraging business leaders, service providers, key government bodies, venture capitals (VCs) and developers to showcase thir tech solutions. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 16:17 · Tefo Mohapi

Google South Africa celebrates Safer Internet Day with partners

Google South Africa joined its partners in the Online Child Safety campaign and commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Safer Internet Day (SID) movement on Tuesday. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 16:13 · Nanine Steenkamp

Jasco hits R159 million in orders

South African industry, energy and ICT solutions company Jasco Electronics Holdings has released its performance report, indicating growth in revenue and orders of up to R159 million (US$17.8 million) by December 2012. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 16:10 · Tefo Mohapi

New Software-as-a-Service solutions from HP to speed up application delivery

HP has announced its new range of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, which it says will “speed application delivery and provide unparalleled visibility, collaboration and agility across often siloed or geographically dispersed application development and operations teams”. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 16:07 · Tefo Mohapi

Paulo Dias appointed Head of Content Production at NATIVE

South African digital agency NATIVE has announced the appointment of Paulo Dias as its new Head of Content Production. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 16:04 · Tefo Mohapi

Sharp launch first light production multifunction printers

Sharp Middle East has launched two models of digital full colour multifunction printers (MFP) - the MX-7040N and MX-6240N, which it says are “well positioned for the high volume office colour and light production environment”. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 16:01 · Vincent Matinde

ZTE leads global broadband CPE market with 16% share

Chinese technology company ZTE is at the helm of the global broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) market, scoring a 16 percent share. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 15:54 · Paul Adepoju

More than 40 million lines inactive in Nigeria – NCC

Latest figures released by regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have revealed more than 40 million telephone lines are currently inactive in the country. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 15:44 · Gabriella Mulligan

Twitter Vine revises age rating

Twitter has revised the age rating of its Vine application 17+ on the Apple app store following complaints of pornographic content. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 15:21 · Brandon Gregory

Zando reaches 10 million South Africans

Online fashion retailer Zando has reached more than 10 million South African shoppers since its launch in January 2012. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 14:59 · Gabriella Mulligan

SA child given 3D-printed prosthetic hand

A five-year old South African has become the first owner of a 3D-printed prosthetic hand, nicknamed the Robohand, the design for which has been placed into the public domain online. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 14:52 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria only using 10% of broadband capacity

Nigeria is currently only using 10 percent of its broadband capacity, with the nation yet to fully deploy the potential of the submarine fibre-optic cables that dock along the country’s coast. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 14:46 · Brandon Gregory

Facebook hate-speech incident causes furore at SA University

Afriforum’s youth branch at the North West University (NWU) Potchefstroom campus had made a complaint about hate speech, in the latest instance of Facebook allegedly being used as a platform to relay offensive messages following. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 14:08 · Tefo Mohapi

Top app brands commit to BlackBerry 10 platform

BlackBerry has followed up the launch of the BlackBerry 10 platform and smartphones by announcing some of the world’s top app developers and brands as BB10 app partners. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 14:04 · Elly Okutoyi

OPINION: Digital migration in-fighting could leave African nations behind

Disturbing trends in the analogue to digital television broadcasting migration have been reported lately in some African countries, with a number admitting they may miss the June 2015 deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 13:27 · Kamau Mbote

Google to sell ads on Yahoo! sites

Search engine giant Yahoo! has release a statement saying its archrival Google will start selling some ads on its websites and mobile services. → Read more
Thu, February 7th, 13:20 · Vincent Matinde

Paga reports processing 1.2 million transactions since 2011 launch

Nigeria mobile money transfer company Paga has processed over 1.2 million transactions from 2011 to date, resulting in current business worth of N13.2 billion (US$84 million). → Read more