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All rights reservedhttp://humanipo.com/img/network.gif http://humanipo.com The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed it is preparing new guidelines on SIM replacement so it can crackdown on fraudulent behaviour. http://humanipo.com/news/4500/NCC-set-to-tackle-fraudulent-SIM-replacement-with-new-guideline2013-03-10 09:00:02 MTN South Africa has dropped anytime pre-paid voice calls to two cents per second as part of its One4All price plan. http://humanipo.com/news/4497/MTN-fire-latest-shot-in-SA-pre-paid-price-war2013-03-09 13:00:02 Kenya is to launch an online cargo clearance system valued at US$22 million by the end of the year, intended to increase cross-border trade. http://humanipo.com/news/4493/Kenya-prepares-for-US22-million-online-cargo-system-launch2013-03-09 08:00:02 The South African government is only paying “lip service” to the 2020 100 per cent broadband penetration target and will miss it badly, according to Arthur Goldstuck. http://humanipo.com/news/4499/SA-government-not-doing-anything-to-hit-2020-broadband-target2013-03-08 18:01:02 South African social app Mxit reached one million downloads on BlackBerry phones yesterday (Thursday, March 7) 84 days after its release. http://humanipo.com/news/4498/Mxit-63-reaches-one-million-downloads-on-BB2013-03-08 17:30:01 MTN Nigeria has revealed that it will boost its operations in Nigeria with an additional investment of US$1.5 billion in 3G services this year. http://humanipo.com/news/4496/MTN-commits-US15-billion-fresh-investment-to-improve-3G-services-in-Nigeria2013-03-08 17:00:02 Women in the workplace are often “overlooked” in the tech industry and need to “stand up for themselves”, says Suhaifa Naidoo, chairperson of Geek Girl Dinners Cape Town. http://humanipo.com/news/4494/Geek-Girl-Dinners-Cape-Town-chair-speaks-on-International-Womens-Day2013-03-08 16:30:02 South African network operator Vodacom has introduced a new weekend discount calling offer to its customers, valid until March 31. http://humanipo.com/news/4495/Vodacom-introduces-new-Power-Hour-deal-for-March2013-03-08 16:00:02 The South African Public Service and Administration has announced it is delaying implementing a biometric absence-tracking system for teachers after the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) reacted with strike threats. http://humanipo.com/news/4492/Absent-teacher-fingerprint-tracking-delayed-after-Sadtu-strike-threat2013-03-08 15:31:01 The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in Uganda has created a website that will allow citizens to access information on the performance of government ministries. http://humanipo.com/news/4489/Ugandan-government-launch-website-to-gauge-ministry-performance2013-03-08 14:00:01 M-KOPA Kenya Limited, the company behind solar power panels that allow users to pay for the service via mobile banking, is looking to increase its market share in Kenya to 100,000 from the current 7,500 clients. http://humanipo.com/news/4488/M-KOPA-looking-to-increase-market-share-with-its-solar-power-solution2013-03-08 13:30:01 Founder and chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has unveiled the redesign of the social network’s news feed in San Francisco. http://humanipo.com/news/4487/Facebook-revamps-newsfeed-design2013-03-08 13:00:01 Vodacom South Africa has unveiled possibly the largest solar array of panels on a single building in Africa when it made an announcement at its offices in Century City, Cape Town. http://humanipo.com/news/4486/Vodacom-leads-the-way-in-implementing-renewable-energy-solutions2013-03-08 12:30:02 A quick Google search for the eMalahleni local municipality will reveal the government website’s search results has been embarrassingly incorrectly spelled, reading “eMalahleni Local Minicipality.” http://humanipo.com/news/4485/South-African-local-municipality-website-spelling-blunder2013-03-08 12:00:01 Google Play celebrated its first birthday this week by offering a week of deals and discounts on in the media and app store. http://humanipo.com/news/4484/Google-Play-week-of-deals-to-celebrate-birthday2013-03-08 11:30:01 Jason Bagley and Adrian Myburgh are the masterminds behind Whitespace, a web designing agency in Cape Town with a focus on mobile, web and user experience design. http://humanipo.com/news/4483/Whitespace-the-Wright-brothers-for-the-web2013-03-08 11:00:01 Botswanan internet usage is on an upward trend and is increasing the penetration rate in Africa, according to the latest report by BuddeComm. http://humanipo.com/news/4482/Botswana-sees-increase-in-internet-use2013-03-08 10:30:01 Facebook users could have ad-free pages at a cost should a patent application filed in February 2011 come into force. http://humanipo.com/news/4481/Facebook-considering-allowing-users-to-block-ads-at-a-charge2013-03-08 10:01:01 Google South Africa revealed in Montecasino, Johannesburg, that in 2012 South African YouTube views grew by 80 per cent. http://humanipo.com/news/4480/Google-SAs-YouTube-partners-had-a-superb-2012-increasing-revenue-and-views2013-03-08 09:30:02 South African developed global shopping app Found Shopping launched on iOS last week at the Design Indaba, at Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), to make users aware of how they can save. http://humanipo.com/news/4478/Found-Shopping-now-active-on-iOS2013-03-08 09:00:02 Nigeria’s top job site, Jobberman, has announced the launch of their BlackBerry application. http://humanipo.com/news/4477/Jobberman-releases-a-BlackBerry-app2013-03-08 08:30:02 The Kenya Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has blamed a server problem for the high number of rejected votes on the first day of counting. http://humanipo.com/news/4479/IEBC-blames-server-problem-for-increased-rejected-votes2013-03-08 07:56:02 Eugene Juwah, executive vice president of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has predicted by 2015 the nation’s ICT sector will be contributing 15 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP. http://humanipo.com/news/4476/Vision-2015-ICT-to-contribute-15-of-Nigerias-GDP2013-03-08 07:31:01 All things mobile money, banking and payments in Africa will be showcased for three days in Johannesburg from Monday. http://humanipo.com/news/4475/Africas-Payments-and-Retail-Show-to-begin-in-Johannesburg-next-week2013-03-08 07:01:01 Forbes Magazine has launched its app version for its African edition, compatible across multiple platforms. http://humanipo.com/news/4473/Forbes-launches-app-for-African-market-on-smartphones-and-tablets2013-03-08 06:31:01 Part state-owned South African operator Telkom has appointed Xoliswa Makasi as group company secretary, though the company remains without a chief executive officer (CEO). http://humanipo.com/news/4472/Telkom-appoints-new-group-company-secretary2013-03-08 06:01:02 Facebook has appointed Dr Susan Desmond-Hellmann to its board of directors, increasing the number of women on the company’s board to two. http://humanipo.com/news/4474/Facebook-appoints-second-woman-to-board-of-directors2013-03-08 05:00:01 A new three tier level data centre has been launched in the East African country Djibouti, to become the first in the region to provide direct access to undersea cable systems. http://humanipo.com/news/4470/Djibouti-Data-Center-DDC-launches2013-03-08 04:01:01 The president of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has urged the Arab world to join in determining the future of the internet in a meeting held in Dubai. http://humanipo.com/news/4469/ICANN-seeks-Arab-involvement-in-internet-governance2013-03-08 03:00:01 South Africa-based multinational mass media company Naspers has confirmed to HumanIPO it has acquired a 50 per cent stake in Nigerian online megastore Konga.com. http://humanipo.com/news/4471/Naspers-confirms-investment-in-Nigerias-Kongacom2013-03-07 18:01:01 Ghana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has threatened to slam sanctions on network operators who fail to abide by the agency’s guidelines on the construction of transmission and communication towers. http://humanipo.com/news/4468/Telecoms-companies-in-Ghana-get-stern-warning-from-EPA-on-masts2013-03-07 17:31:02 South African entrepreneur Heather Malcomess plans to approach the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in an attempt to alter newly proposed legislation in favour of supporting Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs). http://humanipo.com/news/4466/SA-entrepreneur-to-appeal-to-DTI-for-favourable-SMME-law-discussion2013-03-07 17:00:02 A new study shows South Africa has fallen two places to 20th out of the 24 leading IT economies in terms of cloud computing, with the country in danger of falling behind international best practice in some areas. http://humanipo.com/news/4465/SA-slides-in-global-cloud-computing-rankings2013-03-07 16:31:03 A Google music streaming service is reportedly going to be launched through YouTube later this year. http://humanipo.com/news/4464/Google-to-launch-music-streaming-through-YouTube2013-03-07 16:01:01 Cape Town startup Peach Payments are beginning the rollout of a single-click payment solution for the South African e-commerce industry. http://humanipo.com/news/4463/Certified-single-click-payment-coming-to-South-Africa2013-03-07 15:30:01 Extreme Muslim “Salafi” activists and the Tunisian government have reacted strongly to a video of Tunisian secondary school students performing the infamous “Harlem Shake”, prompting student protests. http://humanipo.com/news/4462/Harlem-Shake-causes-stir-in-Tunisia2013-03-07 15:00:01 The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) will proceed with its planned review of the mobile market with a view to further reducing mobile termination rates (MTRs), in spite of Vodacom’s warnings doing so could hinder capital investment in the sector. http://humanipo.com/news/4467/ICASA-downplays-Vodacom-warnings-on-MTR2013-03-07 14:30:01 A new study by the International Data Corporation (IDC) has found pirated software is costing businesses worldwide billions of dollars, with an informal study by Microsoft confirming South African businesses are also losing out. http://humanipo.com/news/4461/IDC-study-highlights-costs-of-pirated-software2013-03-07 14:00:01 As part of its Transparency Report, Google has released vague data on official requests for data from the FBI under the Patriot Act. http://humanipo.com/news/4460/Google-reveals-details-of-FBI-web-monitoring2013-03-07 13:31:01 South African taxi ordering solution Zapacab is set to launch before April this year, seeking to provide reliable and efficient taxi services on the streets of Cape Town. http://humanipo.com/news/4459/Zapacab-to-improve-SA-taxi-services2013-03-07 13:00:02 Pyramid Research has described the Kenyan telecommunications sector as a powerhouse in Sub-Saharan Africa, based on network expansion and expected revenues over the next five years. http://humanipo.com/news/4456/Kenya-a-telecommunications-powerhouse-report2013-03-07 12:31:02 MTN Group is among 90 companies competing for one of two mobile network licences in Southeast Asian country Myanmar, with chief executive Sifiso Dabengwa describing the country’s 60 million population as an “excellent opportunity”. http://humanipo.com/news/4457/MTN-view-Myanmar-as-an-excellent-opportunity2013-03-07 12:00:01 Incident-mapping website Uchaguzi, which has been documenting the Kenyan elections, has seen crowd-sourced reports soar 480 per cent since the polls began. http://humanipo.com/news/4458/Crowd-sourced-election-reports-soar-on-Uchaguzi2013-03-07 11:30:01 Zambia Telecommunication Company (Zamtel) plans to roll out a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network as soon as the company gets the green light for licensing. http://humanipo.com/news/4455/Zamtel-to-launch-LTE-in-Zambia2013-03-07 11:00:02 Opera Mini has finally launched the beta version of its smartphone browser for Android gadgets, based on the WebKit browser engine, in a bid to carve its own niche in a market currently dominated by Google and Apple. http://humanipo.com/news/4454/Opera-launches-Android-browser-running-on-WebKit2013-03-07 10:31:01 The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has said the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board acted illegally in removing acting chief operations officer (COO) Hlaudi Motsoeneng. http://humanipo.com/news/4452/SABC-illegally-removed-Motsoeneng-CWU2013-03-07 10:00:02 As M-Pesa celebrates its sixth birthday, Safaricom chief executive officer (CEO) Bob Collymore says the service has developed “beyond any of our expectations”. http://humanipo.com/news/4453/M-Pesa-celebrates-6th-birthday2013-03-07 09:30:01 The South African Department of Communications (DoC) has said they are not bad for business because no concerns have been raised with them. http://humanipo.com/news/4451/DoC-believes-they-are-not-bad-for-business2013-03-07 09:00:02 HumanIPO caught up with Marie Lora-Munga, founder and chief executive of Buni TV, a Kenya-based video on demand platform. http://humanipo.com/news/4450/QA-Marie-Lora-Mungai-Buni-TV-founder-and-chief-executive2013-03-07 08:30:01 Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman has absolved Safaricom of blame over the system failures during Monday’s election, saying his commission was responsible for the problems. http://humanipo.com/news/4449/IEBC-chairman-jumps-to-Safaricoms-defence2013-03-07 08:08:07