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Thu, March 7th, 12:53 · Tom Jackson

IDC study highlights costs of pirated software

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. → Read more
Thu, March 7th, 12:35 · Tom Jackson

Google reveals details of FBI web monitoring

As part of its Transparency Report, Google has released vague data on official requests for data from the FBI under the Patriot Act. → Read more
Thu, March 7th, 12:27 · Nanine Steenkamp

Zapacab to improve SA taxi services

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. → Read more
Thu, March 7th, 09:42 · Nanine Steenkamp

Zamtel to launch LTE in Zambia

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. → Read more
Thu, March 7th, 08:19 · Brandon Gregory

Q&A: Marie Lora-Mungai, Buni TV founder and chief executive

HumanIPO caught up with Marie Lora-Munga, founder and chief executive of Buni TV, a Kenya-based video on demand platform. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 15:47 · Paul Adepoju

NITDA DG urges Nigeria’s education stakeholders to invest in e-learning

Stakeholders in the Nigerian public and private sectors have been advised to invest more in e-learning as a way of unlocking the potential of Nigerian youths. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 15:47 · Richard Cutcher

RSAWeb impressed by City of Cape Town partnership

The first internet service provider (ISP) to go live on the City of Cape Town fibre optic network has praised the municipality and suggested its politicians might be trying to prove a point. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 15:47 · Nanine Steenkamp

New SMPTE committee to focus on cinema sound

Global leading motion-image committee, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), has announced the establishment of a new technology committee to regulate cinema sound standards. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 13:48 · Brandon Gregory

FNB leads the way for digital banking in South Africa

First National Bank (FNB) is leading the way in terms of digital banking in South Africa with the launching of the dotFNB digital branches and the latest statistics proving their success. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 11:09 · Tom Jackson

Free State to investigate website deal

The Free State provincial government is to investigate whether or not it got value for money in the redesign of its website, premier Ace Magashule has said. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 09:56 · Nanine Steenkamp

Apple to upgrade iTunes with music services

Apple is exploring possibilities for a release of a music service with audio technology business Beats Electronics LLC to boost iTunes sales. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 08:38 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian parents know nothing about cyber security – Funke Babatola

Funke Babatola, chief executive of FB Initiatives and Innovations Limited, has declared Nigerian parents know nothing about cyber security. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 08:24 · Kamau Mbote

Opinion Yetu turns to Amazon as servers’ crash

Technology startup Opinion Yetu, largely credited with conducting Kenya’s first online opinion poll, was down for the majority of yesterday as overwhelming traffic led to their servers crashing. → Read more
Wed, March 6th, 07:42 · Paul Adepoju

Ghana’s Electoral Commission boss voices pessimism on e-voting

Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Ghana’s Electoral Commission chairman, has declared the West African country is not yet able to fully implement electronic voting system. → Read more
Tue, March 5th, 15:59 · Nanine Steenkamp

Google accused of allowing poacher adverts

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has accused Google of allowing advertisements to appear on a Japanese shopping website, selling illegal animal products of endangered species despite its prohibiting policy. → Read more
Tue, March 5th, 15:56 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mind shift needed to incorporate e-learning tools in SA, says headmaster

South African headmaster Arthur Preston is of opinion a mind shift is required for e-learning to succeed in South Africa. → Read more
Tue, March 5th, 15:54 · Brandon Gregory

dotFNB brings the future of digital banking to Cape Town

First National Bank’s (FNB) innovative dotFNB opened shop today in Rondebosch, Cape Town, exclusively providing digital solutions for banking. → Read more
Tue, March 5th, 14:57 · Brandon Gregory

Controversial ‘US$15.4 million’ government website goes offline

The “Free State Online” website was offline for most of today following yesterday’s news exposing the South African provincial government for having spent millions of rand to update it and related sites. → Read more
Tue, March 5th, 13:49 · Richard Cutcher

Gauteng to spend US$1.8 million on broadband network

The Gauteng provincial government in South Africa has set aside almost ZAR16 million (US$1.8 million) for the Gauteng Broadband Network initiative, as it turns its attentions to infrastructure development. → Read more
Tue, March 5th, 11:23 · Tom Jackson

Free State defends website spend

The Free State government has defended itself over claims it spent ZAR140 million (US$15.4 million) on the redesign of its website, saying the figure was considerably lower than this and in fact included work on 38 different sites. → Read more