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Tue, May 29th, 10:33 · Vincent Matinde
Eatout.co.ke founders all set to launch a travel site Sleepout.co.ke
After great success with Eatout.co.ke, the site’s founders say they are now ready to unveil another site to help local and international tourists locate accommodation in Kenya. → Read more
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Tue, May 29th, 08:00 · HumanIPO
Nokia launches education delivery project to boost content delivery in rural Kenya
Nokia has launched education delivery project set to use mobile technology to bring up to date content to schoolchildren in Kenya’s remote regions. → Read more
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Tue, May 29th, 07:00 · HumanIPO
Agencies to install solar panels to boost ICT use in Kenya’s remote regions
International Institute for Communication and development (IICD) has installed solar panels at Ilkerin in Turkana, Kenya, set to enhance the quality of education among the Maasai tribe that live in the region. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 18:30 · Robin Okuthe
Facebook could soon acquire Opera browser, report says
Social networking giant Facebook may acquire the Norwegian browser maker Opera Software, developer of the Opera and Opera Mini browsers for desktops and mobile phones, a report says. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 18:00 · HumanIPO
Lack of enough funding hampering innovations in Africa
Lack of enough funding facing Africa’s innovations and startups extensively stagnate the continent’s innovation and technological growth, delegates at the African summit (OAIS) agree. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 17:25 · Elly Okutoyi
African Startup wins Silicon Valley’s attention barely a fortnight after launch
Barely two weeks after launching, Whenpages, a global time-based platform for creating, sharing and discovering events, present and in future, has attracted the attention of at least two Silicon Valley investors. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 16:40 · Vincent Matinde
Mozambican network operators lower calling tariffs in fierce battle for subscribers
A mobile phone company in Mozambique M-Cel says it now has the lowest calling rates in the country after having reduced its tariffs drastically. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 14:50 · Elly Okutoyi
Digicel debuts first non-bank mobile payment system
New Zealand-based currency exchange company KlickEx and Digicel, a Telecoms service provider, in partnership with VeriFone, a global leader in electronic payment technologies, last week announced the launch of a digital merchant payment system in the Kingdom of Tonga. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 12:00 · Vincent Matinde
Tanzania urged to seek new regulations on mobile banking
Tanzania’s government should put in place regulations to oversee telecom and mobile banking firms, an assistant minister has said. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 11:50 · Vincent Matinde
New Nigerian music app goes live on Google Play
Spinlet, a music service from Nigeria, has officially gone live on Google’s app store, Google Play. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 11:15 · Elly Okutoyi
Nokia partners with Nigeria’s CCHub to start a mobile software accelerator academy
Nokia has partnered with a social innovation centre in Nigeria called Co-Creation Hub (CCHUB) to launch Africa’s first Growth Academy for early stage mobile technology startups. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 10:25 · HumanIPO
A new Zimbabwean SMS platform aims at tending country’s saving culture
A firm in Zimbabwe called Victory Savings Club has innovatively incorporated the use of mobile technology in a pioneering effort aimed at promoting the culture of saving, wealth creation and empowerment among the country’s citizens. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 08:00 · HumanIPO
Ghanaian government pledges to give 100,000 laptops to learners this year
Ghana’s government has announced plans to distribute 100,000 laptops to students in a move aimed at boosting teaching of ICT in the country. → Read more
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Mon, May 28th, 07:00 · HumanIPO
Zambia seeks to automate land supervision in June
Zambia’s Land administration says it will from June computerize its operations to enable the government to capture data in a move aimed at eradicating corruption in the department. → Read more
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Sat, May 26th, 08:52 · Elly Okutoyi
Kenya turns to satellite technology to quench thirst for water
Faced with chronic shortage of water, Kenya has now turned to satellite technology to locate and explore underground water. The satellite technology called Watex System will map water wells in Turkana, one of the country’s most affected areas. → Read more
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Sat, May 26th, 08:16 · HumanIPO
Sage Pastel’s new app enabling tracking of salaries using mobile phones
Sage Pastel, a global business solutions provider, has developed a new mobile-based human resource solution called Sage VIP it says is set for launch in July in Nairobi, Kenya. → Read more
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Fri, May 25th, 16:06 · HumanIPO
IMImobile honoured at Cloud Africa Awards in SA
IMImobile, a global mobile data technology infrastructure and solutions provider, last night won the Multimedia Content Management Solution of the Year award at the Cloud Africa Awards hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
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Fri, May 25th, 14:40 · Vincent Matinde
Vodacom receives accreditation from Microsoft
South Africa-based mobile network operator Vodacom yesterday became Africa’s first telephone company to receive Microsoft OCS and Lync's SIP trunking Certification. → Read more
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Fri, May 25th, 12:25 · HumanIPO
Africa’s premier health care app wins 2012 Ericsson Application Awards
MedAfrica, a mobile health-care app developed by Kenya-based Shimba Technologies, has won the 2012 Ericsson Application Awards first prize in the company category. → Read more
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Fri, May 25th, 11:10 · HumanIPO
Kenya now resorts to installing CCTV in cities to curb Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab
Major Kenyan cities are set to benefit from CCTV camera installations to help fight terrorism and crime-related activities. This follows the US$100 million grant given to Kenya by the People’s Republic of China to curb terrorism. → Read more
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