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Thu, November 8th, 10:17 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian WebTV launches portal, corporate service

WebTV, a Nigerian online business TV, has launched a Web portal and corporate services. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 10:10 · Nanine Steenkamp

Rats become currency for phones in South African township

LifeLine Southern Africa, a nonprofit focused on crisis intervention, has received 11,000 rats to trade in for more than 100 mobile phones to combat the "rat menace" in Johannesburg’s Alexandra Township. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 09:00 · Nanine Steenkamp

After South Africa, German T-Systems seeks more African frontiers

German global IT services and consulting company T-Systems is executing further African expansion plans through its South African office, from where the rest of the continent will be approached. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 08:27 · Kamau Mbote

US Quarter 3 retail e-Commerce up 15% than year ago

Online retail spending soared to $41.9 billion compared to the same period last year, the twelfth consecutive quarter year on year growth, a study by comScore reveals. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 08:18 · Vincent Matinde

Tourism Radio hits its 1 millionth device rental day

South Africa’s a digital tour guide Tourism Radio has hit its 1 millionth device rental day this month, edging it closer to monetisation. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 08:10 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s MTN And Globacom, top spenders in advertising

Mediafacts, an annual publication of MediaReach OMD, has i its latest publication revealed that Nigeria’s top four telecoms companies spent more than 20 billion naira, making them the highest advertising spenders in telecommunications product category. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 07:38 · Vincent Matinde

Hardware innovation the next frontier in Kenya’s ICT sector

Kenya has covered quite some strides in terms of software developments, typically mobile-based apps. Hardware developments however fail to replicate the trend, although this is bound to change. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 07:26 · Nanine Steenkamp

Inwi embraces pay-as-you-use mobile services in Morocco

Morocco’s Inwi, mobile network operator, has unveiled a new selection of cellphone packages enabling users to pay only for the services they use. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 07:15 · Tefo Mohapi

Vodacom SA expands LTE coverage to Cape Town, more stations in Jo’burg

Vodacom South Africa yesterday said it has tripled the number of Long Term Evolution (LTE) enabled base stations in its network from just under 70, when it launched a month ago to over 200 in Johannesburg. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 06:57 · Tefo Mohapi

Datacentrix announces cloud offering for South Africa

South Africa’s Datacentrix, a provider of high performing and secure ICT solutions, has officially introduced its cloud computing offering aimed at assisting enterprise-level customers in meeting their off-premise outsourcing needs. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:27 · Kamau Mbote

Kaspersky Lab named best anti-malware vendor

Kaspersky Lab is now the world’s leading anti-malware vendor, a survey carried out by Info-tech research group shows. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:26 · Nanine Steenkamp

Latest Opera release much user-friendly to South African users

The latest version of Opera Software, the Opera 12.10, includes a built-in South African website supporting desktop browser. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:17 · Tefo Mohapi

Rand Merchant Bank’s renews IT outsourcing contract with Dimension Data

FirstRand, one of South Africa’s leading financial institutions, has renewed Rand Merchant Bank’s IT outsourcing services contract with Dimension Data, the global IT systems integrator announced today. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:05 · Nanine Steenkamp

Kenya’s 2-yeard-old startup MoDe keen on global expansion

Kenya’s Mobile Decisioning (MoDe), an emergency prepaid airtime startup, has announced plans to expand across Europe and South America. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 12:23 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mobile services hailed for boosting African mining

Viewed as one of Africa’s most profit generating sectors, mobile guided mining services provides an easy solution to aid with such aspects as drilling locations. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 12:00 · Gythan Munga

Chris Rock’s video on Obama a sensation in Africa

Stand up comedian Chris Rock’s video message recorded for the Jimmy Kimmel Live show is currently trending in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria on Youtube. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 11:29 · Tefo Mohapi

Speakers and agenda for Mobile Web Africa 2012 announced

All Amber, the organizers of premier continental technology events, has today announced details of the fourth annual Mobile Web Africa (MWA2012) conference slated for Johannesburg in the final week of November. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 10:20 · Nanine Steenkamp

Banks in South Africa taking up Windows mobile apps

Two of South Africa’s top banks Nedbank and Standard Bank have recently made deals to develop banking apps for Microsoft’s Windows Phone smartphone platform. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:52 · Gythan Munga

Smartphones gaining traction with Egypt’s Consumers

Egypt witnessed 26 percent smartphone adoption in the first quarter of 2012, a survey by search engine giant Google reveals. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:46 · Kamau Mbote

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 to help you find Wi-Fi

Software giant Microsoft has received a license from Wi-Fi software vendor Devicescape allowing it to access a database hosting 11 million hotspots -- 1 percent of global hotspots -- and to provide its Windows Phone 8 OS users with the locations to find the Net. → Read more