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Mon, October 22nd, 12:29 · Elly Okutoyi

Airtel ranked world’s number 4 mobile operator

Global telecommunications company Bharti Airtel has been ranked as the world’s fourth largest mobile operator, moving up one position from last year, a report by global ICT researcher Wireless Intelligence has revealed. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 11:47 · Tefo Mohapi

Yahoo announce ex-Google executive as Chief Operations Officer

Yahoo! Inc. last week announced that Google’s ex-Vice President of partners business solutions, Henrique de Castro, has been appointed as its chief operating officer (COO), reporting directly to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 11:41 · Tefo Mohapi

Nano SIM cards to be available through Airtel Nigeria

Airtel Nigeria has announced that it will be making Nano SIM cards, specially made for the new Apple iPhone 5, available across its stores in the West African country. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 11:34 · Tefo Mohapi

ICANN signs agreement to expand L-Root servers to Africa

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global Internet domain name authority, has signed a partnership agreement with the Africa Network Information Center (AFRINIC) towards identifying additional potential locations for the expansion of L-Root anycast instances in Africa. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 10:18 · Tefo Mohapi

Deezer launches in Nigeria, iROKING not fazed

Deezer, a France-based global music streaming service, was last week launched in Nigeria to offer unlimited access to its themed and artist-based radio channels in the West African country. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 09:14 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya’s giant telecoms firm deviates into solar business

Integrated telecommunications company Safaricom has unveiled a first-of-its-kind energy solutions for homes through its M-KOPA solar project, focused on providing cheap, clean energy for Kenyan households. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 09:03 · Paul Adepoju

Top opposition party in Nigeria joins call to outlaw cybercrimes

Growing concerns over the rise of cybercrimes in Nigeria have now led to the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), the nation’s top opposition party, condemning the government’s reluctance to outlaw the crimes, as recently voiced by the country’s ICT stakeholders. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 08:38 · Tom Jackson

SA university launches new courses to fill ICT skills gap

South African university College Campus, based in Pretoria, has launched three new technological degrees seeking to fill the widening skills gap in the country when it comes to ICT. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 08:34 · Tefo Mohapi

Gartner honours SA’s Dimension Data as world cloud solutions leader

South Africa’s Dimension Data, a global ICT solutions provider, has today announced it has been recognised by global IT research leader Gartner as a leading ICT company after recent positioning in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 08:12 · Gythan Munga

Misuse of social media damages UK communities

As a small community in Wales grieves for a five-year-old girl abducted while playing in front of her house, and British mothers cry for their sons lost in Afghanistan, the rest of the UK is learning that legal steps will be taken against those who use social media for gross commentary. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 08:07 · Vincent Matinde

East Africa’s top securities exchange geared towards virtual trading

A new virtual platform expected to be launched later this year will enable users to trade in the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), East Africa’s leading securities exchange, from the comfort of their homes. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 07:58 · Tefo Mohapi

Vox Telecom looking at converged telecommunications services

With the growing trend of businesses towards converged telecommunications services, Douglas Reed, CEO of Vox Telecom, believes his company is well positioned to take advantage of this drift. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 07:23 · Tefo Mohapi

Samsung unveils first Windows Phone 8 phone in Cape Town

As part of the Samsung World Tour featured in Cape Town last week, the Korean electronics manufacturer has unveiled Samsung ATIV S, its first Microsoft Windows 8 powered phone. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 07:22 · Tom Jackson

Start-ups gear up for 88mph Demo Day

Time flies when you’re going 88mph. For Steve Ngethe, founder of Manyatta Rent, it must have felt like he was moving even faster. It has only been a month since 88mph welcomed its 2012 cohort of budding entrepreneurs, but with the much-anticipated Demo Day approaching on December 13, for Steve it has been a month in which he has come full circle. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 07:11 · HumanIPO

Farmers in Africa await French app that checks cattle’s reproductive behaviour

Medria Technologies, a French monitoring solutions vendor, has developed using Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M) that monitors a cow’s reproductive behaviour and notifies the farmers automatically. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 06:32 · Gythan Munga

Under Pressure: Airtel Africa’s Manoj Kohli

As Bharti Airtel announces plans to merge its Indian and African operations, Manoj Kohli is rumoured to be up for the position of global Chief Executive Officer at the newly merged entity. → Read more
Sun, October 21st, 09:57 · Gythan Munga

Looking for “thinspiration”: How the Internet encourages eating disorders

While the occurrence of eating disorders is based on a mixture of genetic, hormonal, social and cultural factors loading the proverbial gun, there is one type of social media phenomenon which clearly acts as a deadly “trigger”. As internet penetration and social media use increases in Africa, the continent needs to be prepared to stamp out any pro-eating disorder sites that rear their ugly heads. → Read more
Sun, October 21st, 09:44 · Gythan Munga

Alan Knott-Craig Jr: Did he jump or was he pushed?

As the tech world plays catch-up following the sudden resignation of Mxit CEO Alan Knott-Craig Jr on Thursday, speculation begins as to why he is leaving the company less than a year after he joined. → Read more
Sun, October 21st, 09:35 · Tefo Mohapi

Google announces the new Samsung Chromebook

Google has announced the availability of its new and affordable Chromebook built by Samsung, with the “made for cloud” device is now available for pre-order. → Read more
Sat, October 20th, 08:03 · Gythan Munga

SA ambassador to Iran suspended amid MTN case

South Africa’s government has confirmed that an ambassador accused of accepting bribes in the case concerning mobile operator MTN’s Iranian unit has been suspended and recalled pending the outcome of an investigation. → Read more