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Tue, October 9th, 08:01 · Tefo Mohapi

Cybercrime costs rise by 40%, attack frequency doubles, report says

The cost and frequency of cybercrime have risen for the third straight year, according to a recent research report unveiled by Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's largest maker of personal computers. → Read more
Tue, October 9th, 06:42 · Gythan Munga

Applications open for Safaricom’s AppStar challenge

Safaricom in partnership with the Vodafone Group has unveiled an Appstar challenge for local application developers, who will be contesting for a grand prize of KSh1 million. → Read more
Tue, October 9th, 06:34 · Gythan Munga

2go founders able to spurn investors and ride growth wave

As their social media site 2go hits the 20 million user mark, founders Alan Wolff and Ashley Peters are seeing their African expansion develop exactly according to plan. The site is growing so quickly, in fact, that the pair can afford to reject offers of investment that they were so desperate for back at the project’s initiation. → Read more
Tue, October 9th, 05:18 · Tefo Mohapi

Google’s g|south africa 2012 to be held in Cape Town

Google’s third annual g|south africa event is scheduled for November 12 to 13 in Cape Town, consisting of two full-day programmes dedicated to software developers, webmasters, businesses, marketers, publishers and agencies. → Read more
Tue, October 9th, 04:02 · Elly Okutoyi

G4S introduces new anti-theft system to crack down on cash-in-transit heists

Security solutions group G4S Cash Solution has introduced a new sophisticated anti-theft system in its new South African fleet in partnership with UK-based fleet management company Imperial Group to make transfer of huge funds safer. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 14:30 · Robert K'Odingo

CCK cracks down on reprogramming of counterfeit phones

The paralysed counterfeit phones that Kenya’s mobile network operators switched off late last month are being reprogrammed in parts of the country’s capital Nairobi to fit the existing operable standards, according to reports. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 14:07 · Tefo Mohapi

Kenya’s treasury to tax M-Pesa transactions

Following the recent strike in Kenya by state-employed teachers, lecturers and doctors, the country’s treasury has said it will cover the approximated US$300 million cost in wage increases through cost cutting and introduction of new taxes, including on mobile money transfer services such as M-Pesa. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 14:00 · Tom Jackson

Orange Kenya launches emergency credit for customers

Integrated telecommunications service provider Orange today unveiled an advance airtime top-up benefit – PEWA - to enable its customers to receive emergency credit. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 13:35 · Robert K'Odingo

Public Service Announcement: Is your mobile phone killing you?

A recent report by the Kenya ICT Board through the Communication Communications of Kenya (CCK) indicated an upward trend in mobile subscriptions between April 1 and July 31, 2012. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 13:23 · Tefo Mohapi

REVIEW: LG Optimus L3 in shape for first time smartphone users

Korean firm LG Electronics has launched the LG Optimus L3 smartphone that runs on Android, looking to offer smartphones ideal for first-time mobile users or those on a tighter budget. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 13:01 · Vincent Matinde

Africa’s invasive cyber threats showed red light

Africa Computer Emergency Response Teams (AfricaCERT), an Internet security firm, has pledged help to African countries in helping to combat the prevalent cyber threats the continent currently faces. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 12:46 · Tom Jackson

SA must improve ICT education to create jobs, says minister

South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Economic Development Hlengiwe Mkhize has said that education leaders in the country must do more to improve IT literacy if South Africa is to fulfill its ambition of creating five million jobs by 2020. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 11:06 · Gythan Munga

Kagame puts ICT at centre of Rwandan growth strategy

Since taking office in 2000, President Paul Kagame has taken Rwanda by the cuff and driven unprecedented growth, resulting in the country being ranked the third most competitive in Sub-Saharan Africa in this year’s World Economic Forum global competitiveness report. Amongst the President’s pet topics – increasing ICT availability across the East African country in a bid to drive the country’s growing economy. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 09:58 · Vincent Matinde

South Africa’s Vodacom launches low-cost smartphone

South African telecom Vodacom has announced the release of an affordable smartphone named Vodafone Smart II, intended to attract more customers into the smartphones bracket. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 09:27 · Dan Sudi

Kenya supports ICT penetration in education system, declares government official

Kenya’s government is supporting the development of ICT infrastructure and training in the education system, says the Ministry of Information and Communications permanent secretary Dr. Bitange Ndemo. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 08:40 · Tefo Mohapi

South Africa appoints new science and technology minister

Derek Hanekom, who has served as the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology in South Africa since 2004, was last week appointed as the new Minister for the Department of Science and Technology (DST). → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 08:27 · Robert K'Odingo

ICT for Africa conference 2013 set for Harare, Zimbabwe

The annual international ICT for Africa conference will take place in Harare, Zimbabwe, next year, with the aim of finding solutions for transferring, diffusing and adopting Information Communication Technologies within the African context. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 07:58 · Tefo Mohapi

TransUnion announces it uses Autonomy’s solution for Digital marketing

TransUnion, one of Africa’s leading companies in credit information with offices in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland, relies on HP Autonomy’s digital marketing suite to deliver an online experience for its customers. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 06:58 · Dan Sudi

Ghana’s tablet set to boost e-learning

Ghana’s leading tech-focused high-learning institution the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) has partnered with a UK-based firm to introduce a tablet aimed at improving e-teaching and e-learning in Ghana and across the region. → Read more
Mon, October 8th, 06:51 · Gabriella Mulligan

Focus on the Father of Zimbabwean Telecommunications : Strive Masiyiwa

Strive Masiyiwa – founder and Chairman of Zimbabwe’s Econet – has played a pivotal role in the development of a competitive African telecoms market, having fought a five-year legal battle in Zimbabwe against state monopolisation of the wireless telecommunications industry. → Read more