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Fri, August 24th, 09:06 · HumanIPO

Airtel’s soccer clinic brings in Man United’s legend Peter Schmeichel

Giant network operator Bharti Airtel has invited Manchester United’s most decorated club legend Peter Schmeichel to grace the inaugural event of its Airtel Rising Stars African Championships and Soccer Clinic. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 09:00 · Dan Sudi

Botswana to issue driving license notification through SMS

Botswana’s Department of Information Technology (DIT) has partnered with Department of Road Transport and Safety to roll out an SMS for driving license service that alerts drivers on the renewal of their driving license. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 08:43 · Tefo Mohapi

Samsung Weeks to be hosted across the continent

Samsung continues to expand its presence in Africa and seems determined to participate in a meaningful manner by positively influencing the communities where its consumers live in the many countries where it operates. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 08:39 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya’s government to benefit from Kaspersky solution for e-Security

Since more and more systems can today be plugged into the Internet for functions such as file storage and transfer, security has becomes an issue that has to be persistently addressed. This is even more important when governments embrace technology. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 08:27 · Elly Okutoyi

Mini satellite launched in SA for space weather research

South Africa is set launch a mini satellite from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in November to be used for collecting information on space weather. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 07:52 · HumanIPO

Sierra Leone to complete US$15 million fibre-optic connection

Launched by France Telecom as part of an association with telecom operators in participating countries, the ACE cable, which runs from the African Coast to Europe, had Sierra Leone sign a US$15 million loan agreement with China. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 07:38 · Dan Sudi

Zimbabwe to introduce Fibre-Optic connectivity through Namibia

Zimbabwean government’s plans of introducing fibre-connectivity through Namibia has received a boost after the officials from the two countries agreed to facilitate the process. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 07:00 · Dan Sudi

Ugandan MPs to review UBC TV digital monopoly policy

Ugandan MPs are scheduled to meet later this year to review the contract awarded to Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), the national broadcaster, to spearhead the analogue to digital TV migration. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 06:13 · HumanIPO

Econet switches off government-owned NetOne over US$20 million debt

Econet yesterday announced it has terminated its interconnection services to government owned NetOne in what Econet claims is repudiation of their interconnection agreement. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 05:00 · HumanIPO

African Union picks on the Internet Society to run the African Internet Exchange Points

The African Union (AU) has selected the Internet Society to conduct training sessions and organize mobilisation to support the establishment of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in the 54 AU Member States. → Read more
Fri, August 24th, 03:58 · Vincent Matinde

REPORT: Nigeria to lead mobile payment sector by 2017

Africa has led the world into the forays of mobile money. A new report by Juniper Research shows that Nigeria will be leading in mobile payments by 2017, by having 54 percent share. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 13:53 · HumanIPO

Leo moves to thwart liquidation

Powercom which is currently suffering losses of between $241,480 and $603,700 monthly, went to court in a move to save itself from the union with Telecom Namibia, hoping to stop their telecommunications company Leo, the country’s second mobile operator from being liquidated come end of the month. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 13:37 · Elly Okutoyi

Airtel Kenya partners with Co-op bank in mobile money

Airtel Kenya has entered into a deal with Co-operative Bank that will see mobile money subscribers deposit and withdraw money directly from their Bank accounts, using their Airtel lines. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 13:03 · Dan Sudi

Safaricom to invest KSh25 billion in network coverage

Kenya’s leading mobile service provider Safaricom plans to improve its network coverage across the country. It has pumped in close to KSh25 billion (about US$298,000,000) toward the venture. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 12:37 · Vincent Matinde

Ugandan switch to digital TV dogged with decoder confusion

Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has courted controversy with its new standardisation of set boxes to be used for the digital broadcasting switch. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 12:10 · Tefo Mohapi

Etisalat Nigeria uses Oracle solution to accelerate data retrieval and analysis by 99%

Oracle Communications announced on Wednesday that Etisalat Nigeria, a leading Nigerian telecommunications service provider, has deployed and gone live with Oracle Communications Data Model solution. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 11:57 · Elly Okutoyi

Safaricom tightens security on M-Pesa with Fraud Management system

Kenya’s giant network operator Safaricom has signed a deal with a UK-based technology company Neural Technologies that will see the latter develop and implement a fraud management system for M-Pesa mobile money service. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 11:32 · HumanIPO

Telecommunications firm tells of Namibia’s next off-grid power

Diverse Energy, an energy and telecommunications equipment manufacturer, announced the outcome of a five-month PowerCube technology, during an event on Monday in Namibia's capital Windhoek. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 09:53 · Dan Sudi

Sofgen unveils Temenos T24 banking software in Kenya

Sofgen, a global leader in IT solutions, has launched a sharing model cloud platform software in Kenya branded Temenos T24. → Read more
Thu, August 23rd, 09:46 · HumanIPO

Barclays launches Pingit Mobile App in Kenya

Barclays on Monday launched Pingit in Kenya. Pingit is a fee free person-to-person mobile app for international money transfers between UK and Africa, beginning a new era of international money transfer almost six months following its UK launch. → Read more