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Mon, November 19th, 11:25 · Kamau Mbote

Mauritania, Rwanda lead in broadband speeds in Africa

Mauritania tops Africa with its download speed of 24.52Mbps, with Rwanda second with 6.46Mbps, a study on downloading speeds by Speedtest.net indicates. → Read more
Mon, November 19th, 09:57 · Kamau Mbote

Presidential aspirants’ embrace of social media ahead of polls has it limitations

Kenya’s political aspirants continue to engage youth through the social media with messages ranging from those of national importance to personal ads on future political engagements, though the conversation remains one-sided. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 14:12 · Richard Cutcher

Combat piracy by providing ‘cheaper, faster and better access’ to content

Representatives of Universal, Endemol and YouTube believe the power is in their hands to fight the spread of music and movie piracy. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 11:55 · Tom Jackson

Pricing models key to Africa broadband penetration

Operators have as yet been unable to provide access to broadband at the right price in Africa, meaning penetration on the continent is still low, according to the Head of Engagement Practices at Ericsson sub-Saharan Africa. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 11:28 · Nanine Steenkamp

Africa’s hope lies in creative innovation, says Marlon Parker

African creativity points to a hopeful future for technological advances, according to the founder of a global social enterprise community. → Read more
Thu, November 15th, 09:11 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenyan curriculum to be digitized

Kenya’s education minister has announced that his ministry is planning to digitize the entire curriculum by 2015, a move that will see the government reduce expenditure on education resources. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 13:47 · Nanine Steenkamp

Cost and knowledge biggest obstacles to African app development, says Google

Market confusion and the fact Africa has the highest mobile Internet cost worldwide are the greatest challenges for app development in Africa, says Paul Lee, Senior Product Manager at Google. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 12:41 · Vincent Matinde

Fastjet begins online sales of airline tickets

Africa’s newest airline that is already shaking the market because of its anticipated low fare, FastJet has unleashed its new website and is now taking ticket bookings. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 09:50 · Robin Okuthe

State surveillance of citizen’s online activities on the rise sharply

Government surveillance of citizen’s online activities is rapidly increasing globally except perhaps in Africa, according to Google’s latest Transparency Report. Nearly 21,000 requests were made in the first half of 2012. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 06:16 · Tefo Mohapi

Windows division head leaves Microsoft

Microsoft has announced that Steven Sinofsky, the Windows and Windows Live President, will be leaving the company, and that Julie Larson-Green will lead all Windows software and hardware engineering. The changes take effect immediately. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 06:02 · Paul Adepoju

Nigeria’s Ahmadu Bello University says it is set to offer online PhD programme

A first generation Nigerian university Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) will start offering online doctorate programmes in 2013, the institution’s vice chancellor Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha has said. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 16:16 · Richard Cutcher

‘Techies and social activists’ need to work together

To make real social change in Africa, technology developers and entrepreneurs need to start thinking about the “bottom billion”, according to a British investment executive. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 13:01 · Paul Adepoju

StarTimes records 100% increase in subscription, commits to TV digitalization in Nigeria

Chinese TV company StarTimes is expanding its coverage across Nigeria, as part of its plan to achieve its goal of becoming a global leader in digital television services. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 12:50 · Kamau Mbote

Antivirus innovator being sought for murder

The founder of McAfee antivirus John McAfee, 67, is a wanted man in Belize for the murder of an American expatriate on Saturday night. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 12:43 · Tefo Mohapi

HP’s PowerCARD software, a cost-effective alternative card payment system

HP, one of the world’s largest IT companies, recently announced that banks, retailers and telecom operators can now boost the cost-effectiveness of their card operations with the HP PowerCARD payment management software. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 11:54 · Paul Adepoju

Nearly US$3.2M set aside to kickstart software economy in Nigeria

The sum of N500 million (approx $US3.2 million) has been set aside by the federal government of Nigeria as part of the $15 million Technology Venture Capital Fund required to set up a Nigerian software economy through software incubation centers in Nigeria, the minister for communications technology Omobola Johnson has said. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 11:51 · Nanine Steenkamp

Africa can lead America, says Alan Knott-Craig Jnr.

Africa has the potential to become a mobile leader, according Alan Knott-Craig Jnr. who spoke at Mobile Monday (MoMo) in Cape Town. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 10:25 · Nanine Steenkamp

Google fined for gang-linked images

Google has been ordered to pay damages of US$208,000 after an Australian man sued the company for defamation, accusing the Internet giant of making him look like a criminal in published pictures. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 08:51 · Tom Jackson

Indian government sites brought down by Algerian hackers

Algerian hackers recently hacked several key Indian government websites, with one website down for over nine hours. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 13:28 · Vincent Matinde

IBM to help Moroccan farmers in boosting ICT skills

Global PC hardware giant IBM is, in partnership with Morocco’s ministry of agriculture, getting ready to assist the country’s farmers to apply ICT skills in their daily activities. → Read more