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Wed, December 5th, 10:17 · Kamau Mbote

New Nokia Siemens approach hoped to cut data prices

Nokia Siemens, specialists in mobile broadband, has adopted a new tactical approach expected to drive data prices down by using the right technology and network design by mobile network operators. → Read more
Wed, December 5th, 09:02 · Tefo Mohapi

iROKING launches embedded music player

iROKING has launched a music player that can be embedded onto any blog or website, giving visitors the ability to play any of the 35,000+ songs on offer. → Read more
Wed, December 5th, 08:13 · Elly Okutoyi

IEBC helps voters find registration centres on Google maps

Kenya’s electoral authority the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has launched an online tool that will help unregistered voters find the nearest registration centres. → Read more
Wed, December 5th, 07:53 · Vincent Matinde

Cybercrime growing more quickly in Africa than in any part of the world

Cybercrime is escalating faster in Africa than anywhere else in the world, according to the Cyber Security Africa team, an organisation that looks at the dangers of the Web in Africa. → Read more
Wed, December 5th, 06:34 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya National CERT Coordination Centre is now operational

The Kenya National Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (KNCERTCC), a body set up to fight cybercrime in Kenya, is now operational, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has announced. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 14:19 · Robin Okuthe

Interactive websites targeted to engage Diaspora Africans in developing Africa

The International Office of Migration, the world’s largest immigration agency, has today, in partnership with the Ghanaian government, launched a website called Ghanaiandiaspora.com, dedicated to connecting the nearly 3 million Ghanians living in the Diaspora with the country’s development. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 13:09 · Paul Adepoju

Electronic transactions in Nigeria passes one trillion naira mark

More than one trillion Naira (US$6,350,000) was transferred electronically in the first half of 2012, but only 1.3 percent of transactions were made on mobile. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 12:37 · Kamau Mbote

One-fifth of African countries likely to witness Internet switch off

The 52-hour blackout which hit Syria last week is also possible in another 61 countries, including 12 in Africa, mostly those where the Internet is controlled by one or two telecoms, according to a report by Renesys. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 12:03 · Brandon Gregory

iTunes Music Store now in South Africa

Apple’s iTunes store has arrived in South Africa, but is currently offering music only rather than television shows and films too. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 09:03 · Paul Adepoju

NigComSat boss promises Nigerians more bandwidth, denies commission function duplication

Timasaniyu Ahmed-Rufai, Chief Executive of the Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited (NigComSat), has urged Nigerians to support the NigComSat Corporation Bill, claiming it will increase available bandwidth. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 07:42 · Brandon Gregory

Most South African ISPs support free peering

While most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in South Africa support free and open peering, four major industry players are not keen. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 07:00 · Robin Okuthe

ITU’s Internet regulation treaty talks start in Dubai

International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a UN agency charged with overseeing global telecommunications regulations, is making efforts to calm fears that the Internet could be trashed by the ongoing World Conference on International Telecommunications (Wcit), a conference it is hosting in Dubai, UAE. → Read more
Tue, December 4th, 05:46 · Robin Okuthe

Yahoo to scrap out Yahoo! Messenger, its public-chat rooms feature

Search engine giant Yahoo! has said it will remove the public chat rooms feature of its messaging tool Yahoo! Messenger on Dec 14, and replace it, along with other features to be scrapped, with new features. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 15:24 · Kamau Mbote

The Pope set to become Twitter’s most significant tweep

The pope is expected to start tweeting on the feast of Madonna of Guadalupe on December 12 under his new handle @pontifex, viewed by many as a way of bringing the conservative Catholic Church in line with more modern practices. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 13:48 · Gabriella Mulligan

Congo rebel group M23 leaves Facebook

The social media campaign of DRC rebel group M23 has been cut short, with their Facebook Group removed from the social networking site as the group retreats from Goma. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 11:26 · Tefo Mohapi

iROKOtv celebrates first anniversary and SA office is planned for 2013

iROKOtv, Africa’s biggest online platform for streaming movies, celebrated its first birthday on Saturday, and HumanIPO can reveal a South African office is in the pipeline. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 10:27 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenyans in Diaspora to vote online in 2017

Although Kenyans in Diaspora have been ruled out from voting in Kenya’s general elections in March next year due to “time and resource constraints,” they could cast their votes online in subsequent elections. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 10:25 · Tefo Mohapi

Google and Yahoo! domains in Romania taken down by Algerian hacker

An Algerian hacker going by the name MCA-RCB has taken credit for the defacement of both Google and Yahoo!’s Romanian websites. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 09:29 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian Communications Minister calls for more local content

Omobola Johnson, the Nigerian Minister for Communication Technology, used the platform at the eNigeria conference to call for production of more local content and the maximisation of ICT potential to achieve higher productivity, promote good governance and enable Nigeria to compete globally. → Read more
Mon, December 3rd, 08:39 · Vincent Matinde

Ghana’s Fidelity Bank unveils new data centre by IBM

Due to pressure on its backend digital platform, Ghana’s Fidelity Bank has partnered with IBM to ease the pressure in the face of expansion plans. → Read more