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Thu, January 3rd, 11:11 · Gythan Munga

Kenya’s top bookseller goes online

Leading and diversified Kenyan bookseller Text Book Center (TCB) has unveiled an online portal to boost its sales ahead of the reopening of schools countrywide. → Read more
Thu, January 3rd, 10:52 · Paul Adepoju

Survey shows less than five percent of Nigerians have access to PC

Nigeria, Africa’s most populated nation, has a personal computer penetration rate of just 4.5 percent, despite having more than 101 million subscribers connected to the various telecommunications networks in Nigeria. → Read more
Thu, January 3rd, 09:34 · Tefo Mohapi

Meraki acquisition completed by Cisco

Cisco has finally concluded and announced the acquisition of Meraki, a cloud networking company that offers midmarket customers easy-to-deploy on-premise networking solutions that can be centrally managed from the cloud. → Read more
Thu, January 3rd, 08:36 · Kamau Mbote

Slow Internet expected in Kenya as cable repairs start

Internet users in Kenya will experience lower broadband speeds in the next two weeks as The East African Marine Systems (TEAMS) cable undergoes maintenance works. → Read more
Wed, January 2nd, 12:12 · HumanIPO

Zynga suspends thirteen games

Zynga, the San Francisco-based online games publisher, is shutting down 13 games due to underperformance, with 11 having already been taken offline. → Read more
Wed, January 2nd, 11:29 · Kamau Mbote

Angry Birds, YouTube rated among best apps of 2012

Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Angry Birds remained the top downloaded apps in 2012, with a number of new apps making a debut on the list. → Read more
Wed, January 2nd, 07:30 · Paul Adepoju

Liberia’s Cellcom’s 4G network now 100 times faster thanks to ACE

Liberia's major telecommunications company, Cellcom, has become the first in Liberia to deploy the ultrafast fibre optic network in the West African country. → Read more
Tue, January 1st, 08:26 · Vincent Matinde

Opinion: Content provision to be the next big thing in Africa’s Web industry

Web content generation will be the next big business in Africa as the continent’s Internet penetration peaks, and in due time, local content will be preferred to foreign production. → Read more
Fri, December 21st, 12:47 · Kamau Mbote

Malawi and Sudan face high malware threat, Kaspersky warns

Anti-malware developer Kaspersky Lab has said that some 35 percent of users of its antivirus software were targeted by a Web attack at least once while browsing the Internet, with African nations Malawi and Sudan affected particularly badly. → Read more
Fri, December 21st, 10:54 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan developers sit world’s first software certification

A number of Kenyan developers have sat the first World Software Certification pilot exam, necessitated by increased employment of expatriate software developers by multinational corporations opening offices in Kenya. → Read more
Thu, December 20th, 14:48 · HumanIPO

Google Music scan and match challenges Apple iTunes

Google Music now offers listeners match and scan for free, the same service Apple iTunes offers at US$25 per year as it intensifies competition with the audio giant. → Read more
Thu, December 20th, 13:57 · Kamau Mbote

Public to participate in nomination of members to Internet hall of fame

Members of the public can, starting from January 11, propose nominees to be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame ahead of the honoring ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey next year in June. → Read more
Thu, December 20th, 13:28 · Brandon Gregory

Google to track Santa

Santa will have a new Google-provided “route algorithm” as he crosses the globe on Christmas Eve, as the Internet giant prepares to track Father Christmas for the sixth consecutive year. → Read more
Thu, December 20th, 11:58 · Brandon Gregory

Cell C discloses trial LTE plans

Cell C has confirmed it will wait for clarification from the South African government regarding its broadband plans before pressing ahead with its commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) project, as reported by HumanIPO last month. → Read more
Thu, December 20th, 09:35 · Brandon Gregory

Google brings more religious texts online

Google is assisting the Israel Antiquities Authority in converting more ancient religious texts from parchment and papyrus into digital documents. → Read more
Thu, December 20th, 09:00 · Paul Adepoju

Ericsson boss suggests LTE technology for Nigerian telecoms companies

Ericsson has declared Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology as essential in improving the quality of services being offered by telecoms companies operating in Nigeria, offering companies the ability to offer a wider variety of services. → Read more
Thu, December 20th, 08:59 · Vincent Matinde

Lost opportunities in the North Africa broadband fibre market highlighted

North Africa is being left behind as the rest of Africa embraces aggressive expansion of fibre to the home (FTTH) programs, a report by Pyramid Research indicates. → Read more
Wed, December 19th, 14:58 · Paul Adepoju

Gambia launches fibre optic cable today, last step towards high speed internet

As the Africa to Europe (ACE) Cable is launched today in Banjul, capital city of Gambia, Liberian authorities have expressed the country’s readiness to put it into operation on January 19, 2013. → Read more
Wed, December 19th, 12:49 · Kamau Mbote

CCK lacks legal backing for SMS and Internet monitoring, Information ministry admits

The Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communication has said that actions by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), the Kenya Police and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) to monitor SMS text messages and the Internet could violate the right to privacy in Kenya. → Read more
Tue, December 18th, 13:45 · Paul Adepoju

Konga.com has increased consumer base by “building trust”

Nigeria has a rich history of online fraud, but according to the Chief Executive of Konga.com “building trust” has been the key reason for the online retailer‘s growing visitor numbers in the past 12 months. → Read more