African Technology News, Startups, Mobile and Social Media

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Fri, November 23rd, 12:20 · Gythan Munga

Q&A: Ngugi Gikonyo on contacts backup, a momentous trend on the mobile space

Kenya’s phone backup solutions developer Binary Science has been exploiting cloud computing by enabling individuals to save and manage important phone contacts. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 12:11 · Kamau Mbote

Safaricom revises roaming rates to partner networks

Kenya’s integrated telecommunications firm Safaricom has introduced roaming charges for receiving calls through its partner networks in the East African Community (EAC), with receivers from MTN Rwanda hardest hit with charges KSh28 per minute. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 11:55 · Robin Okuthe

Ethiopia seeks partnership with Safaricom to use M-Pesa

Ethiopia’s government has made advances to Kenyan telecom firm Safaricom seeking assistance on ways it can shape up its mobile money and telephony market. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 11:52 · Paul Adepoju

State government in Nigeria sacks staff over Facebook comment, opposition reacts

An opposition party in Nigeria has slammed the sacking of an employee of the Bauchi state government for a comment he made on Facebook. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 10:53 · Tom Jackson

Rasello builds customer base with SMS cloud communications tool

Tanzanian cloud-based platform Rasello is managing close to 500,000 customers and has sent close to 100,000 SMS broadcasts in the nine months since it was founded. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 10:36 · Richard Cutcher

Churches flock to sign up for voice activated social media service to engage with followers

An unlikely group of clients has emerged for a social media start-up in South Africa which expects to sign up 500,000 users over the weekend. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 10:28 · Nanine Steenkamp

Norway against Facebook marketing

The Norwegian Consumers Council has warned Facebook about unsolicited marketing, demanding them to stop and threatening a lawsuit. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 10:11 · Paul Adepoju

Teledom Group believe ‘smart classrooms’ are key to Nigeria becoming a digital economy

An education technology company has called on the Nigerian Government to revolutionise education by installing more information and communications technology (ICT) in the classroom. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 09:57 · Tefo Mohapi

Durban gets Vodacom SA LTE coverage

Vodacom South Africa now has more than 400 Long Term Evolution (LTE) base stations live and is ahead of schedule to meet its target of switching on 500 by the end of the year. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 09:29 · HumanIPO

The HumanIPO Debate: Should the M23 Facebook group be closed down?

As the Facebook following of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rebel group M23 continues to grow, questions must be asked about the ethics of allowing groups committing atrocities to maintain a social media profile, particularly one that has apparently gained traction. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 09:05 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenyan techprenuer making it big with unique online business model

Kenyan techpreneur Mogaka Mwencha, 34, has defied all odds to create one of the biggest online businesses, valued at more than KSh10 million (approx US$120,000) in a country where online buying is only slowly being adopted. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 08:43 · Tefo Mohapi

ZA Central Registry bid for .africa receives no objections, bid strengthened

South Africa based ZA Central Registry (ZACR) believes it has overcome the first hurdle in its .africa bid after receiving no "early warnings" from the regulator, ICANN's Government Advisory Committee (GAC). → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 08:41 · Kamau Mbote

OPINION: JKIA can learn from Kigali airport’s proper utilization of ICT

Upgrading works, including construction of an additional terminal and runway expected to reduce congestion, are in top gear at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), East Africa’s largest airport in terms of size, passenger traffic volumes and cargo clearance. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 07:59 · Paul Adepoju

Cameroonian pot maker jailed and fined more than US$1.33 million after stealing cables belonging to CAMTEL

A cooking pot maker will spend 12 years in prison and be liable for 18 years of payments after being found guilty of unearthing and misappropriating 1.2km of optical fibre cable worth FCFA 74 million (US$1.29 million). → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 07:36 · Gabriella Mulligan

The dark uses of technology in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian women are now subject to electronic tracking when trying to cross borders, in a measure that uses mobile technology to further curtail the human rights of Saudi women. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 07:29 · Gythan Munga

Interview: Boniface Githinji, CEO and Founder Tusqee Systems, Silicon Valley bound

With their bulk SMS products now being speedily adopted by a number of schools and corporate firms in Kenya, Tusqee Systems is one of the few disruptive African startups to have come out of a hackathon, determined to change the face of communications. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 07:27 · Paul Adepoju

Telecoms in Nigeria to hold forum next month

The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) will address the various challenges the industry and their subscribers are contending with at a December conference. → Read more
Fri, November 23rd, 05:30 · Elly Okutoyi

Nigeria to have affordable broadband by 2015

The Federal Government of Nigeria has embarked on a project that will ensure Nigerians access affordable high-speed Internet by 2015, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said during the recent Nigerian Broadband Forum (NBF). → Read more
Thu, November 22nd, 15:55 · Gabriella Mulligan

Congo M23 rebels build Facebook following in face of UN pressure

The Facebook following of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rebel group M23 continues to grow as the government struggles to regain control of its eastern regions in the face of the group’s violent campaign. → Read more
Thu, November 22nd, 15:07 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana’s leading banks connect to allow more convenient ATM use

An inter-bank switching and processing system enabling Ghana’s banks to network their ATMs has been launched. → Read more