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Mon, August 13th, 08:49 · Dan Sudi

Kenya’s information authority undertakes archives digitisation

Kenyan government's information department the Kenya News Agency (KNA) has set out to digitalise the audio-visual archives currently under its custody. → Read more
Mon, August 13th, 07:49 · Vincent Matinde

Google in a $5.8 million drive to support empowerment through tech

Google has announced a US$40 million dollars sponsorship to non-governmental organizations, with US$5.8 million going to Africa for education and technology empowerment. → Read more
Mon, August 13th, 07:42 · Elly Okutoyi

IBM set to open research lab in Nairobi by end-year

Global technology conglomerate IBM is in the final stages of opening an Information Technology Research lab in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. → Read more
Mon, August 13th, 07:14 · Tefo Mohapi

Twitter Olympic records

Twitter reports that over the 16 days that the Olympic games took place, it saw more than 150 million Tweets being sent about the games on its platform. → Read more
Mon, August 13th, 07:03 · Tefo Mohapi

ICANN announces initiative aimed at increasing African participation

ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced on Friday an initiative aimed at increasing African participation and influence within the organisation. → Read more
Mon, August 13th, 04:05 · HumanIPO

Text-based birth registration service introduced for Senegal’s villages

A Swiss non-governmental organisation Aide et Action has introduced a texting service in Senegal that allows parents to send details of their newborns to registration centres to obtain birth certificates → Read more
Sat, August 11th, 07:00 · Gythan Munga

Weekends or weekdays, when does Africa browse most?

Mobile Web has taken over the lives of people across the world. If not by chance, most people will mostly browse during the weekends than weekdays. This, however, according to Opera mobile is not an easy logic. Some countries will record lesser unique users and others more page views while others will transfer more or less data. → Read more
Sat, August 11th, 06:30 · HumanIPO

Yookos launches job portal for youth, targets 20 million users by year-end

Yookos has launched a job site for youth in Africa and in the Diaspora. → Read more
Sat, August 11th, 06:00 · HumanIPO

Nigeria’s communications and environment regulators clash over telecom masts

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Environmental Standard Regulatory Agency (NESREA) have are at odds over how the country’s environmental space reserved for telecommunications purposes should be put into use. → Read more
Sat, August 11th, 05:00 · HumanIPO

Phone tapping now legal in Rwanda

Rwanda’s parliament has passed an amendment to a bill that will authorise the tapping of telephones and other private communications for security reasons. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 14:01 · Dan Sudi

Kenya to introduce software development certification program

IT graduates from Kenyan institutions have a reason to expect better things ahead after the Carnegie Mellon University and Kenya ICT Board partnered to offer training in Software Development Certification (SDC) to boost practical skills. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 13:41 · HumanIPO

Village Capital’s first-ever African programme sets off in Nairobi

Village Capital Nairobi Programme 2012 began today at the GrowthHub in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 13:06 · Vincent Matinde

2012, the year of online and mobile banking threat

As the world embraces online and mobile banking, concerns arise over the extent of data security the applications have. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 12:47 · Dan Sudi

Kenya ICT authority’s website brought down for half an hour

The Kenya ICT Board’s website was brought down on Wednesday joining the list of government sites hacked in less than seven months. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 10:07 · Dan Sudi

ISPA welcomes fine imposed on wailing Telkom

Its hardly a week when the Competition Tribunal fined Telkom’s South Africa R499(US$61,184,426.84) for monopoly practices between 1999 and 2004 in South Africa.The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) termed the penalty as essential for streamlining the telecommunication industry. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 09:22 · HumanIPO

First wooden computer flatters environmentalists’ vanity

Surfing for hours on the Internet consumes much electricity and hazards the environment, this reality led to the invention of an eco-friendly wooden-framed computer. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 09:14 · Elly Okutoyi

Online passport applications for Zimbabweans

Zimbabweans can now make passport and other personal document applications at the comfort of their computer screens following their government’s efforts to digitize the processes online. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 08:07 · Vincent Matinde

Beware of that smartphone, what you need to know about e-security

You probably have seen several Facebook accounts hacked and disturbing images posted. Such a situation can cause embarrassment for a victim. This is however not the only threat you need to worry about. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 07:23 · Dan Sudi

MTN and 8ta to introduce LTE by end of 2012

Two South Africa-based mobile phone service providers MTN and 8ta are in the final stages of releasing Long Term Evolution (LTE) services for commercial use by the end of this year. → Read more
Fri, August 10th, 06:45 · Vincent Matinde

Vodacom app challenge for Egypt, Lesotho, South Africa and Tanzania unveiled

Vodacom Telecom Company has invited developers from four African countries namely Egypt, Lesotho, South Africa and Tanzania to its app challenge dubbed the AppStar. → Read more