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Thu, June 14th, 06:38 · Robin Okuthe

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo to own domains

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Named and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday revealed the generic top-level- domains (TLDs) applied for by companies and organizations, a major step in the 6-year long process aimed at expanding the domain name system to condition for more competitions in a world dominated by dot-com names. → Read more
Thu, June 14th, 04:00 · HumanIPO

IBM partners to nurture IT skills in South Africa

IBM has started a programme at Stellenbosch University in South Africa aimed at giving graduates appropriate business and technology skills. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 14:10 · Tefo Mohapi

Finally, South Africa’s government gazettes ICT sector charter

After nearly 10 years of discussions and draft documents, South Africa’s government has gazetted the Information and Communications Technology sector charter. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 13:50 · Tefo Mohapi

Deloitte Technology Trends 2012 report reviews technology trends and options in entrepreneurship

Global professional services firm Deloitte today held their annual Technology Trends -- Tech Trends 2012 -- report presentation in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 13:31 · Vincent Matinde

Togo Telecom announces price reduction on internet

True to its word, Togo Telecom yesterday announced the doubling of customers’ bundles at no cost at all. This offer will be for Helim Nomad brand for mobile users. After raising cost of HELIM FIXED connections (ADSL), it is the turn of the HELIM NOMAD to offer discounts to its customers, the company announced through […] → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 13:28 · HumanIPO

US partners to boost engineering and entrepreneurship in North Africa

The US-Tunisia-Morocco (USTM) and the North American-Tunisian Engineers Group (NATEG) have partnered to scale up the skills of entrepreneurs in North Africa. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 13:27 · Elly Okutoyi

Vodacom SA introduces handsets for the visually impaired

Vodacom South Africa has introduced a range of Nokia handsets for the visually impaired. The phones convert texts to speech and enlarge texts to make them more visible. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 12:56 · Vincent Matinde

Google to host Google I/O Extended 2012

Google’s biggest developer event of the year will take place on June 27 to 29 in San Francisco, California. Developers from across the globe are invited to join the event. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 12:15 · Robin Okuthe

Facebook comes up with a plugin allowing users to publish contents

WordPress bloggers worldwide can now rejoice as they get yet another platform to publish their stories online. This comes after the social networking giant Facebook came up with a plugin essential for spreading news of stories, social publishing, and individual mentions. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 11:31 · Elly Okutoyi

MTN in a sponsorship deal to create rocket-propelled supercar

South Africa-based telephone network operator MTN in partnership with Bloodhound SSC (supersonic car), a UK-based project that bills itself as an “engineering adventure,” are in a project that seeks to create a supersonic car to break the land-speed record. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 09:55 · Tefo Mohapi

New tailored trends focused on making Twitter more user-relevant

Social media website Twitter has announced an enhancement to its trending topics feature. The default trends will now only show trending topics relevant to the users, based on their locations and who they follow on. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 09:27 · Elly Okutoyi

GOtv set to go live in Lagos

Digital terrestrial television service provider Details Nigeria has said that GOtv, a TV service on the Digital Video Broadcast technology, will go live in Lagos Nigeria by the end of this week. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 07:39 · Vincent Matinde

Nokia to hold an app hackathon “Nokia Hack”

The app developer competition known as Nokia Hack, will bring over 100 developers to work through 48 hours to come up with apps to be included in the Nokia Ovi store. “Through Nokia Hack, we want to recognize and reward local app developers by giving them a platform to create their best apps with Qt,” […] → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 07:24 · Vincent Matinde

Chinese PayTV channel StarTimes launches in Kenya

A China-based broadcasting company StarTimes has announced its operation in Kenya, not long after the Kenya’s communications regulator, Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), started testing the digital frequencies in and around Nairobi. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 07:06 · HumanIPO

South Africa’s new tablet counting on local content

The Wise Touch tablet claims to be Africa’s first locally designed and developed tablet set to beat the Apple’s iPad, given its wholly customised local content. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 05:00 · Robin Okuthe

Rocket Internet aims to make Sabunta a major Nigerian online fashion store

Clone master Rocket Internet has opened an online store in Nigeria one week after launching Kasuwa, an electronic online store, in the country's former capital Lagos. → Read more
Wed, June 13th, 04:00 · HumanIPO

Ghana’s new chat service eyeing more than 50 million devices by 2014

Saya Mobile's co-founder and CEO Robert Lamptey says they are set to end the use of SMS in Africa and globally with their free cross-platform chat service. → Read more
Tue, June 12th, 14:05 · Tefo Mohapi

ITU looking to tax large Internet content providers like Facebook

A leaked document from WCITLeaks.org sheds light on how the UN’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) plans to go about implementing a tax on content heavy websites including YouTube and Facebook at the inaugural World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT). → Read more
Tue, June 12th, 14:01 · Elly Okutoyi

Facebook loans now enabled by startups in South Africa

A payment system called Zunguz, which allows Facebook users to pay directly from within the social networking site, has partnered with an online micro-loans company GetBucks to offer Facebook users loans of up to R500. → Read more
Tue, June 12th, 13:00 · Robin Okuthe

Internet advertising hit all-time high in first-quarter reaching US$8.4 billion

More advertisers are now seeking the Web to draw buyers, says the Associated Press. → Read more