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Fri, November 9th, 11:43 · Gythan Munga

Mobile revolution yet to reach 67% of Africans

Two-thirds of Africans are yet to be connected to a mobile service, according to Wireless Intelligence. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 10:52 · Tefo Mohapi

Illiterate Ethiopian children manage to hack Android

In an interesting statement, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) founder Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the illiterate Ethiopian children they had given the locked down Motorola Xoom tablets earlier this year have within five months not only started teaching themselves English, but managed to bypass the security on the tablet’s operating system to customize settings and to activate disabled hardware such as the camera. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 10:36 · Paul Adepoju

Nazara to distribute EA mobile games in Nigeria, Ghana

To bring its array of globally renowned latest games to users in Nigeria, Ghana and the rest of Africa, international mobile games developing and publishing company Electronic Arts Incorporated has appointed Nazara Technologies as its core African vendor. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 12:19 · Gythan Munga

Legal and regulatory challenges stagnating m-commerce growth

M-commerce, also mobile commerce, is hailed for fast-tracking next-generation mobile financial services as well as defining new ways to transact business. Despite the positives, experts in the legal field of M- and E-commerce observe that legal and regulatory challenges might be causing a jurisdictional headache to organizations and innovators. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 10:10 · Nanine Steenkamp

Rats become currency for phones in South African township

LifeLine Southern Africa, a nonprofit focused on crisis intervention, has received 11,000 rats to trade in for more than 100 mobile phones to combat the "rat menace" in Johannesburg’s Alexandra Township. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 12:23 · Nanine Steenkamp

Mobile services hailed for boosting African mining

Viewed as one of Africa’s most profit generating sectors, mobile guided mining services provides an easy solution to aid with such aspects as drilling locations. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 10:20 · Nanine Steenkamp

Banks in South Africa taking up Windows mobile apps

Two of South Africa’s top banks Nedbank and Standard Bank have recently made deals to develop banking apps for Microsoft’s Windows Phone smartphone platform. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:52 · Gythan Munga

Smartphones gaining traction with Egypt’s Consumers

Egypt witnessed 26 percent smartphone adoption in the first quarter of 2012, a survey by search engine giant Google reveals. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:46 · Kamau Mbote

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 to help you find Wi-Fi

Software giant Microsoft has received a license from Wi-Fi software vendor Devicescape allowing it to access a database hosting 11 million hotspots -- 1 percent of global hotspots -- and to provide its Windows Phone 8 OS users with the locations to find the Net. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:25 · Vincent Matinde

Nigeria Punch News to launch mobile site version

One of Nigeria's largest news site Punch News readies to launch its mobile Web version with the help of Twinpine Network, a mobile advertising company, the site announced. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:04 · Tefo Mohapi

2go set for availability on smartphones

2go, Africa’s popular mobile social network, is making its phone app available to smartphones. At the same time, the company has announced that it will be growing its software development team. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 10:06 · Gythan Munga

Nonprofit uses phone exchange to rid Jo’burg of rats

South Africa’s LifeLine, a humanitarian organisation focused on counselling, is offering a free phone for every 60 rats caught, an initiative targeted at ending the “rat menace” in the nation’s township Alexandra. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 07:09 · Vincent Matinde

Inmobi’s departure doesn’t knock out business, Twinpine says

As Africa comes to terms with Inmobi’s decision to close down African offices, Elu Umeh, CEO of Twinpine, says this could be an opportunity to boost their business. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 09:45 · Nanine Steenkamp

RIM unveils BlackBerry lab in Cape Town

Canada-based smartphone-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has announced the launch of BlackBerry lab in Cape Town, South Africa for local apps development set to boost the BlackBerry platform. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 09:29 · Gythan Munga

Kabarak University debuts its Android bootcamp for Nakuru County

Kabarak University, in underlining the important role of ICT, held its first Android mobile boot camp for Nakuru County on Nov 1 to 3, 2012 under the theme “Innovation & Solutions through Mobile“. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 11:59 · Tefo Mohapi

HP announces new products to help businesses increasing mobile usage

Computer-maker HP has announced new products and services that help small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) simplify their IT infrastructure to accelerate business gains from mobile access. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 11:52 · Paul Adepoju

Gambian students use mobile phones to control power stations, houses

Two Gambian students have come up with a technology that enables an entire power station to be controlled using a mobile phone. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 09:16 · Tefo Mohapi

DSTV’s Mobile TV App now available for Windows Phone 7.5

Software giant Microsoft and Multichoice, the South Africa-based satellite television services provider, yesterday announced that the Drifta viewer app for Windows Phone is now available for Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 mobile phones. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 07:18 · Gabriella Mulligan

Google launches its own ‘Siri’ PA on iOS

As Apple fires the man responsible for Siri, Google has stepped up the competition by launching its own version of the personal assistant app for iOS on Tuesday. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 14:23 · Tom Jackson

Bank of Africa deploys Clear2Pay mobile banking solution

The Bank of Africa is to provide customers in thirteen countries with further mobile financial services after inking an agreement to use of Mobile Internet Banking (MIB) solution provided by e-banking firm Clear2Pay. → Read more