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Wed, October 3rd, 12:35 · Elly Okutoyi

Ghana approaching 100 percent mobile penetration

Ghana could become the first African country to achieve 100 percent mobile penetration, according to new statistics from The National Communications Authority (NCA). → Read more
Wed, October 3rd, 11:45 · Vincent Matinde

Norad funds 8 e-health projects to improve health in Africa

Eight health projects driven by mobile technology will benefit from undisclosed grant funding for maternal and child health advancements across Africa. → Read more
Wed, October 3rd, 10:30 · HumanIPO

South Africa’s entrepreneurs prove social media effective for consumer networking

Businesses in South Africa are fast turning to social media platforms to connect to customers, a new study shows. → Read more
Wed, October 3rd, 09:44 · Vincent Matinde

SA’s 1toGo Mobile launches new mobile cloud platform for businesses

South Africa-based IT firm 1toGo Mobile has launched a new platform for its mobile cloud services powered by CommuniGate unified systems that will offer businesses cloud-based services. → Read more
Wed, October 3rd, 09:15 · Elly Okutoyi

First African consumer electronic expo scheduled for South Africa

Over 10,000 visitors are expected to attend Africa’s first ever consumer electronics exhibition slated for July next year in Cape Town, South Africa. → Read more
Wed, October 3rd, 09:01 · Robert K'Odingo

Literal wave of hands could soon replace passwords

World leader in computing innovation Intel this week at an event in San Francisco unveiled a technology that could replace use of passwords to access Web-based accounts including those for online banking, social networking sites and emails. → Read more
Wed, October 3rd, 07:07 · Paul Adepoju

Mobile users in Nigeria decry poor service quality, dismal customer relations

Nigeria’s mobile subscribers have decried the dismal quality of the telecommunication services in the country, claiming it is businesses that are on the receiving end. → Read more
Wed, October 3rd, 06:40 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian states urged to invest more in solar technology

State governments in Nigeria should invest more in solar technology to tackle the nation’s electricity power outages, says Abubakar Mohammed, the Director-General of Nigeria’s National Directorate of Employment (NDE). → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 18:44 · HumanIPO

INTERVIEW: HumanIPO meets SocialMeep’s founder Oluwatobi Soyombo

Social Media Week, a worldwide event exploring the social, cultural and economic impact of social media just ended with firms now looking to embrace social media as strategic business tool. → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 15:56 · Vincent Matinde

OutsourceIT launches cloud-based service for SMEs in Nigeria

OmniCloud becomes the latest cloud service on offer by OutsourceIT to provide IT solutions in the cloud to startup businesses in Nigeria. → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 13:26 · Tefo Mohapi

North Pacific Ocean in central Africa? Apple apologises for slip-up in maps

Apple's new maps platform has already felt the wrath of users due to a number errors, which included showing the North Pacific Ocean as being somewhere in central Africa and the Indian Ocean somewhere in Greenland. → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 12:33 · Vincent Matinde

World Singles Networks (WSN) and GhanaWeb open new social site

GhanaWeb, one of the biggest Web portals in Ghana, has partnered with global dating site and media brand marketer World Singles Network to launch new dating site dating.ghanaweb.com. → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 12:23 · HumanIPO

Globa to introduce prepaid money vouchers in Ghana

South Africa-based mobile money transfer platform Globa is on final stages of developing new prepaid money vouchers and prepaid debit cards to be launched later this month in Ghana. → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 12:18 · Robert K'Odingo

Facebook culls fake likes to save image as giant advertiser

Facebook Inc, in a bid to maintain its image as an “authentic” advertiser, is weeding out fake page “Likes” on its giant social networking site which it says blackmarketeers, spammers and malware use to falsify info on businesses, celebrities, and individuals → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 12:05 · Dan Sudi

South Africa’s Integr8 to offer JHI hitch-free connectivity solutions

South Africa’s top ICT solutions firms Intergr8 group and JHI Properties have partnered towards a venture that would see the latter supplied with a wide range of business solutions via corporate virtual private network (VPN) to boost its online commerce operations. → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 08:46 · Elly Okutoyi

KDN faces trade-off between selling stake and recovering losses

Kenya’s largest private data carrier and network provider the Kenya Data Networks (KDN) is finalising plans to sell a substantial part of its stake to an external investor, as it tries to recover from its losses in the face of stiff competition. → Read more
Tue, October 2nd, 05:05 · Tefo Mohapi

Egypt’s egabi Solutions wins Oracle Partner Award

Egyptian IT firm egabi Solutions was one of the winners revealed yesterday at the Oracle Excellence Awards 2012 Specialized Partner of the Year - EMEA. → Read more
Mon, October 1st, 17:10 · Gythan Munga

Safaricom cuts off 680,000 fake phone subscribers

Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile network operator, today cut off 680,000 subscribers in compliance with the Communication Commission of Kenya’s fake handset switch-off directive. → Read more
Mon, October 1st, 17:05 · Robert K'Odingo

CCK’s plans to switch off fake handsets hits snag

An operation expected to paralyse counterfeit mobile phones has not had the “rippling effect” expected, with at least one major network operator failing to immediately act in accordance with the directive from the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). → Read more
Mon, October 1st, 16:55 · Elly Okutoyi

Social media haters shouldn’t hide behind anonymity

Some Internet users have been using social media platforms to express hate speech and messages certain that the distance and anonymity provides absolute cover. Sunny Bindra, a social media expert in Kenya, however says this will not work. → Read more