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Mon, January 28th, 09:27 · Richard Cutcher
SA’s leading Internet provider to embrace social media
South Africa’s part state-owned telecommunications company Telkom has created accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin in a bid to connect with customers. → Read more
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Mon, January 28th, 09:25 · Vincent Matinde
Online Japanese car retailer opens offices in Nairobi
CarView, an online Japanese car sales site, has launched operations in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, injecting KSh50 million (US$571,000) into its regional expansion plan. → Read more
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Mon, January 28th, 08:58 · HumanIPO
SA’s Mxit to be challenged by Chinese WeChat
WeChat, a messaging service of the Chinese Internet portal giant Tencent, is targeting the African market, posing threats to South African service Mxit. → Read more
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Mon, January 28th, 08:31 · Kamau Mbote
Kenya’s KCPE candidates to check their exam results via mobile phones
Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidates will be able to access their results through their mobile phones when the results are released today, relieving them the need to travel to schools or examination centres. → Read more
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Mon, January 28th, 07:10 · Tefo Mohapi
Eugene Kaspersky named 2012 Influencer of the Year
Eugene Kaspersky, owner of Kaspersky Lab, has been named the 2012 Influencer of the Year by Channelnomics in recognition of the company’s leadership and impact on the industry. → Read more
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Sun, January 27th, 16:46 · Tefo Mohapi
Zimswitch vPayments launched in Zimbabwe, real-time online payment gateway
Zimbabweans will be able to transfer money online and buy products on the web after the Zimswitch vPayments was launched in the southern African country. → Read more
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Sun, January 27th, 16:31 · Tefo Mohapi
Women account for more than a third of Davos delegate social media activity
KPMG International has released data showing female delegates played an increasingly prominent role in the public discussion from the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. → Read more
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Sun, January 27th, 16:18 · Tom Jackson
African e-learning revenues set to rise more than 100%
Revenue derived from African e-learning projects is to increase by more than 100 percent to US$512.7 million by 2016, with the region having the highest growth rate globally for most e-learning products. → Read more
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Sun, January 27th, 16:12 · Tefo Mohapi
GitHub’s search feature exposes passwords and hundreds of SSH Keys
GitHub, the online developer platform for collaboration that is also a source code repository, has announced upgrades on its search engine, but exposed passwords in the process. → Read more
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Sun, January 27th, 15:52 · Tefo Mohapi
BlackBerry 10 sneak preview, key questions answered
With a few days to go before the "great reveal" by Research In Motion (RIM) of the latest BlackBerry 10 smartphones, the Canadian manufacturer has answer a few questions regarding the imminent unveiling. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 16:16 · Nanine Steenkamp
Q&A: Stuart Minnaar – the saviour to South African students’ spending
Studentology is on the edge of releasing its mobile app extension, Yappo, and both are the brain children of Stuart Minnaar. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 16:07 · Kamau Mbote
Google looking at replacing passwords with hardware tokens
After a streak of hackings over the past few years, Google is testing a new way of making accounts safer by replacing passwords with hardware tokens. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 16:00 · Vincent Matinde
VimpelCom to offer free access to Wikipedia on mobile devices
Russian telecom company VimpelCom has announced a partnership with Wikimedia to provide its mobile subscribers with free Wikipedia through Wikipedia Zero, the online publisher’s initiative to enable mobile access of its content in developing countries. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 15:54 · Nanine Steenkamp
RLabs sponsors R3 million plus worth of bursaries
South African Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) has given 800 scholarships with the collective value of almost R3 million (US$255,329), targeting youth, females and unemployed Capetonians. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 15:13 · Kamau Mbote
Africa rated world’s second fastest growing economy
Africa is now ranked the world’s second fastest growing economy, after the continent surged five percent with analysts projecting 5.3 percent growth this year. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 13:15 · Brandon Gregory
al-Shabab’s Twitter page suspended
Twitter has suspended the Somali militant group al-Shabab’s account following its tweets threatening to kill hostages from Kenya. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 13:08 · Vincent Matinde
Intel targets over half a billion phone sales in Africa
Intel has indicated it is eyeing over 500 million mobile users in Africa after launching YOLO, its low-cost smartphone for Africa. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 13:03 · Elly Okutoyi
Data storage in human DNA now possible
A team of scientists has successfully stored and retrieved data using human DNA, an innovation that could replace hard drives and compact disks in storing files for thousands of years. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 12:53 · HumanIPO
SARS hoax mails stealing from SA citizens
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has warned South African citizens about a hoax email doing the rounds which attempts to steal money from victims under pretences of online tax collection. → Read more
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Fri, January 25th, 12:52 · Brandon Gregory
NCC sets price for off-net SMS service in Nigeria
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has ruled that mobile operators must charge their subscribers four naira (US$0.03) for off-net short messaging service (SMS). → Read more
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