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Wed, November 7th, 09:29 · Nanine Steenkamp

Global mobile solutions leader TCS to open African office

US-based TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), world leader in mobile communications technology, has said it plans to open an office in South Africa’s financial capital Johannesburg to serve as its central African domain. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:05 · Kamau Mbote

Google event to sharpen business, tech entrepreneurs’ skills

Over 500 key players from various sectors including ICT, publishing, advertising as well as Swahili linguists are held up at the Think With Google event in Kenya’s capital Nairobi discussing the role of technology in the country’s growing economy. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:00 · Tefo Mohapi

DCA’s misplay laughable as ZACR foretells .africa victory

The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) remains confident it will win the rights to administer the africa Top Level Domain (TLD) once the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) process reaches conclusion, as it has the required 60 percent support of African governments for a geographic name domain. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:25 · Vincent Matinde

Nigeria Punch News to launch mobile site version

One of Nigeria's largest news site Punch News readies to launch its mobile Web version with the help of Twinpine Network, a mobile advertising company, the site announced. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:22 · Nanine Steenkamp

Nambia’s MTC to supply mega 4G

As Namibia’s leading mobile network operator MTC lays out plans to cover some 75 percent of the country with 4G-enabled connections, Telecom Namibia might soon be displaced from top to second. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:08 · Gythan Munga

Swedish game maker Mojang to launch urbanization tool in Nairobi

Swedish Indie game maker Mojang in partnership with the UN-Habitat will today at the iHub, a coworking space and business incubator, in Kenya's capital Nairobi unveil a new gaming tool dubbed Block by Block, targeted at mobilizing the youth to participate in urbanization. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:07 · Vincent Matinde

OPINION: Hard copy book publishing on its deathbed in Africa

Book publishing could soon become "a nostalgic process" rather than a main business process, just like producing mix tapes in a CD-ROM world. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:36 · Tefo Mohapi

Apple sells 3 million iPad minis and iPad 4’s in 3 days, really?

Apple reports it sold 3 million iPads (iPad 4 and iPad mini) just 3 days after the products' respective launches. The company however fails to divulge further on the specific sales numbers for the iPad mini and iPad 4. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:28 · Tefo Mohapi

Tim Knowles resigns as Stortech’s boss

Having served as the chief executive officer of South Africa’s Vodacom-owned Stortech since August 2003, Tim Knowles has renounced his position. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:09 · Nanine Steenkamp

Kenyan MoDe wins IBM award

Kenya’s Mobile Decisioning (MoDe), a mobile nano credit startup, is this year’s overall winner of the IBM Africa SmartCamp contest at Tech4Africa. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:04 · Tefo Mohapi

2go set for availability on smartphones

2go, Africa’s popular mobile social network, is making its phone app available to smartphones. At the same time, the company has announced that it will be growing its software development team. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 12:32 · Paul Adepoju

Glo Ghana records marginal reduction in subscriber base

Ghanaian telcos Glo Ghana has recorded the company’s first drop in the number of subscribers on its Glo Mobile network since it commenced operations in Ghana about five months ago. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 12:26 · Paul Adepoju

Ghanaian telcos lament over rising costs of cable cuts

Two of Ghana’s major ICT stakeholders National Communications Authority (NCA) and Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications are engaging other players in finding solutions to the incessant disruption of telecoms services, attributed to cable cuts that negatively affect service delivery. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 12:18 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana’s telecoms sector has created 1.5 million jobs, report

Aside from providing a wide array of services to Ghana’s population, telecommunications firms in the country play significant roles in developing the West African nation’s economy. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 11:55 · Nanine Steenkamp

Tight contest for .africa domain

The .africa domain is being highly contested given the radical changes by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), organisation responsible for managing the Internet's addresses, which had recently opened up name applications. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 11:53 · Kamau Mbote

Retrogressive laws inhibiting Ethiopian Internet penetration

In the last one decade, Ethiopia has experienced the least Internet growth in Africa, statistics from Internetworldstats.com shows. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:21 · Nanine Steenkamp

Cell C announces massive year-end LTE launches

Cell C has promised it would launch 4G alongside other Long Term Evolution (LTE) services by the end of the year, joining South African competitor mobile operators MTN and Vodacom in high-speed network provision. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:06 · Gythan Munga

Nonprofit uses phone exchange to rid Jo’burg of rats

South Africa’s LifeLine, a humanitarian organisation focused on counselling, is offering a free phone for every 60 rats caught, an initiative targeted at ending the “rat menace” in the nation’s township Alexandra. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:06 · Tefo Mohapi

Easy2Map wins Startup Knight software startups challenge

Startup Knight competition, which targets South African software-based startups, was launched just last month receiving numerous entrants. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 09:46 · Tefo Mohapi

NAIL to be acquired by Primedia

South Africa-based media company Primedia has offered to acquire the remaining shares of New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) that it does not own, the two announced jointly through a SENS message. → Read more