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Wed, November 5th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju
Cameroon’s Wasamundi.com unveils new features
Wasamundi.com, Cameroon's online urban guide that connects customers to local businesses has announced it is offering users a new online business search experience that features engaging user profiles, beautiful business profiles, real maps, business highlights, and enhanced local keyword search. It is also introducing the wasaBADGES Collection. → Read more
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Wed, November 5th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Mozilla announces Firefox OS expansion plans for Africa
Mozilla today announced plans to expand Firefox operating system to Africa. In a statement made available to HumanIPO, Mozilla said it is partnering with Airtel, MTN South Africa and Tigo to bring first Firefox OS smartphones to Africa. → Read more
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Wed, November 5th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju
Guest Post: Peter Eigen, founder, Transparency International
In addition to his roles as founder of Transparency International, Peter Eigen is also a Trustee of the Millicom Foundation, a new organisation set up to invest in social innovators with digital ideas using a US$10m annual budget. In this HumanIPO exclusive op-ed, he shares what the foundation is doing - including its support of application of digital tools to make significant changes. → Read more
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Tue, November 4th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Q&A: Falk Benke, chief technology officer, BitcoinAgainstEbola.org
Technological innovations are being deployed in creative ways to combat the Ebola virus disease ravaging several African countries. In this interview, Benke spoke to HumanIPO on the impacts that the few-hours-old BeamRemit-founded BitcoinAgainstEbola.org would, could and should have on Ebola donations in West Africa. → Read more
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Mon, November 3rd, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Smile to cover 60 cities in Nigeria by 2015
Internet service provider Smile Communications has announced plans to cover 60 cities and 9 additional states in Nigeria by the end of 2015. The announcement was made by the company's Chief Marketing Officer Alero Ladipo. → Read more
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Fri, October 31st, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Opinion: Spinlet may be getting it right in Nigeria
'Who will crack the market?' has always been the million dollar question that many Nigerians that follow the music streaming sector in the country often ask, this is not unconnected to the relative ease with which it is possible to get free Nigerian music online. → Read more
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Fri, October 31st, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju
South African brothers launch Ebola Care app
Two South African brothers have launched the Ebola Care app to aid the fight against Ebola. The app has already been deployed in Liberia by More Than Me, a not-for-profit organisation. → Read more
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Thu, October 30th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju
Africa offers enormous growth potential for e-retailers – DHL
Global logistics and transportation company DHL has revealed that Africa offers enormous growth potential for e-retailers given that online shopping is in its infancy in the region. → Read more
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Wed, October 29th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Kagame calls for enhanced broadband planning processes by governments
Governments must enhance their National Broadband planning process to enable ICTs and broadband to catalyse socio-economic development, according to an Open Letter from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development to delegates attending the ITU’s 2014Plenipotentiary Conference. → Read more
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Wed, October 29th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria wins ITU Gender Empowerment Award
Nigeria has received an award from the International Telecommunications Union ITU and UN Women for initiating policies and programs empowering women and girls via ICT. → Read more
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Wed, October 29th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Feature: Online football betting on the rise in Nigeria
Few years ago, Nigerians only watched football matches of the English Premier League, UEFA Champions League, Spanish La Liga and Italian Serie A. The only times they saw online betting were on the jerseys of some football teams. And for those that still wanted to bet, they had to fill long pages of paper to play what is known as 'pool'. → Read more
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Tue, October 28th, 17:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Liquid Telecom announces UGX 2 billion investment in pan-Ugandan internet infrastructure
IP provider Liquid Telecom today announced UGX 2 bn of investment in its Ugandan subsidiary Infocom, to extend its pan African fibre cable infrastructure across Kampala’s Central Business District and to multiple rural towns across Uganda, including Mukono, Jinja, Masaka, and Mbarara. → Read more
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Tue, October 28th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Alcatel-Lucent, MTN to boost connectivity in Nigeria with ultra-broadband 100G fiber-optic data network
Alcatel-Lucent is opening up Africa’s most populous nation to the benefits of ultra-broadband connectivity by launching a superfast, 100 gigabit-per-second fiber-optic network with MTN Nigeria, a subsidiary of Dubai-based MTN Group and the leading service provider in Africa. → Read more
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Mon, October 27th, 12:00 · Paul Adepoju
Lawmakers approve 7-year jail term for cybercriminals
The Nigerian Senate has approved a seven-year jail term for individuals convicted of cyber crimes in the country with the passage of a bill for an act to provide for the prohibition, prevention, detection, response, investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes and for other related matters. → Read more
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Mon, October 27th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria’s spectrum license bid winner set to roll out LTE services
The winner of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)'s 2.3GHz spectrum licence Bitflux Consortium has announced plans to roll out services in January. → Read more
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Thu, October 23rd, 16:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Malicious Traffic in systems, applications at startling levels-Cisco
Threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks have reached startling levels the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report has revealed. → Read more
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Tue, October 21st, 14:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Cyber-Related Fraud Costs Tanzania Sh10 Billion
Cyber-related fraud crimes, involving card skimming and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) thefts have cost Tanzania six million US dollars reports Daily News Tanzania. → Read more
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Mon, October 20th, 13:00 · Paul Adepoju
Globacom launches mobile tutor service for Nigerian students
Nigerian telecoms company Globacom has launched Glo Mobile Tutor a service targeted at secondary school students in Nigeria. The company said the service would empower the students and would make education more easily accessible. → Read more
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Thu, October 16th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Liquid Telecom to spend US $34 million in Rwanda expansion
Liquid Telecom Rwanda will invest US $34 million in laying thousands of kilometres of new fibre across the country and to the borders of neighbouring Burundi, the DRC, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. → Read more
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Thu, October 16th, 14:00 · Paul Adepoju
Alcatel-Lucent, MTN Nigeria launch 100 gigabit-per-second fibre-optic network
MTN Nigeria and Alcatel-Lucent have launched a 100 gigabit-per-second fibre-optic network that allows subscribers to enjoy the benefits of ultra-broadband connectivity. → Read more
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