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Wed, September 18th, 19:30 · Susan Mwenesi
British Council launches Badiliko digital hubs across Africa
The British Council in Kenya has partnered with Microsoft and Airtel to launch digital hubs seeking to bridge the digital divide by allowing more than 100,000 students in the East African country to access ICT. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 19:00 · Brandon Gregory
Important to understand big data – Huawei
It is important to understand the concept of big data and the benefits it produces, considering 90 per cent of the world's data has been generated over the past 12 months, according to Cameron Bahar, software executive at Huawei Technologies. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 17:30 · Nick Sato
Standard Chartered launches new mobile payment service with M-Pesa
Kenya’s Standard Chartered Bank has partnered with Safaricom to launch a mobile wallet service targeted at corporate clients. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 14:00 · Richard Cutcher
Liquid adds Tanzania to interconnect network
Liquid Telecom Group has into entered a partnership with Tanzania Telecommunications Company (TTCL), allowing traffic to be passed onto the latter fibre network when it terminates in the East African country. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 11:00 · Brandon Gregory
Preparing for a cloud-based future without SharePoint
Companies must begin preparations for a future in cloud computing, because use of Microsoft’s SharePoint software “on-premises” is diminishing, analyst Jeffrey Mann told the Gartner Symposium in Cape Town yesterday. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 09:30 · Richard Cutcher
Bing releases new look site
Microsoft has launched a new design for its Bing search engine, in a bid to take users away from Google. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 09:00 · Nick Sato
Hotel Link Solutions expands in East Africa
Hotel Link Solutions, which creates digital-marketing products for accommodation providers, has announced its latest partnership with Oryx Africa, which will see the destination–management company roll out services in Kenya and Tanzania. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 08:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
Wickr releases anti-spy software
Traceless communication startup Wickr has released anti-spy messaging software for Android mobile devices, expanding its iOS offerings from last year. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 06:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Jolla’s Sailfish OS now Android compatible
Finnish smartphone startup Jolla is taking on smartphone giants by introducing an Android compatible layer in its soon-to-be released Sailfish OS smartphone. → Read more
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Wed, September 18th, 05:00 · Nick Sato
Techno Brain launches ERP training programme for finance professionals
Custom software application provider Techno Brain has launched a first of its kind enterprise resource planning (ERP) training programme in Africa for finance professionals. → Read more
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Tue, September 17th, 20:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
Intel launches literacy programme in Egypt
Intel has started a digital literacy campaign in Egypt, aiming to educate youth and promote entrepreneurship. → Read more
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Tue, September 17th, 18:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
Q&A: Alice Munyuna, member of dotAfrica steering committee
Alice Munyuna, steerco member at dotAfrica, spoke to HumanIPO about the challenges African governments face with policy creation, following discussions at the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) conference last week in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
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Tue, September 17th, 11:00 · Nanine Steenkamp
Comtech to embark on African installations
Comtech Telecommunication subsidiary Comtech EF Data has approved infrastructure equipment orders to support installations throughout the Africa and Asia-Pacific regions. → Read more
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Tue, September 17th, 10:30 · Brandon Gregory
Three technologies businesses should use – Bona
IT allows businesses to optimise their processes and provides a new means by which business can compete through new models, said analyst Alexa Bona during her presentation at the Gartner Symposium in Cape Town yesterday. → Read more
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Tue, September 17th, 10:00 · Paul Adepoju
BBC to discuss its BBC Hausa upgrade at NigeriaCom
The BBC will unveil the reasoning behind its “responsive design” upgrade of the BBC Hausa website at NigeriaCom in Lagos, today. → Read more
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Mon, September 16th, 17:30 · Nanine Steenkamp
Online lessons to be released for SA students
Lessons are to be broadcast online to assist with the examination preparations of final year South African high school students in the Western Cape. → Read more
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Mon, September 16th, 17:00 · Nick Sato
CCK seeks to crack down on cybercrime
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has formulated policies to reduce incidents of cybercrime, prompted by the rising number of cases of internet fraud in the country. → Read more
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Mon, September 16th, 10:30 · Nick Sato
Tusker Project Fame 6 goes digital with online mobile platform
East African Breweries Limited (EABL) has launched an online mobile platform to enable fans to follow its upcoming Tusker Project Fame 6 (TPF6) competition and interact with TPF6 contestants. → Read more
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Mon, September 16th, 08:30 · Nick Sato
CTA selects ICT hubs as partners ahead of ICT for Agriculture conference
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) has announced the ICT hubs and labs selected as partners ahead of the regional hackathon running parallel with the international conference on ICT for Agriculture (ICT4Ag) in Kigali, Rwanda. → Read more
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Mon, September 16th, 07:00 · Susan Mwenesi
iLabAfrica launches specialist academy for digital security
Strathmore University-owned iLabAfrica, an ICT research, innovation, entrepreneurship and incubation centre in conjunction with Egypt’s SoftLock, has launched East and Central Africa’s first hands-on studio-assisted training academy for digital security → Read more
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