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Tue, October 30th, 14:19 · Tefo Mohapi

iROKO partners with GoMetro to offer South African rail commuters free content

iROKO Partners, the world’s largest online distributor of African music and movies, today announced it will start offering free Web content to rail commuters in South Africa, following a partnership with GoMetro, a mobile site launched last month. → Read more
Tue, October 30th, 13:00 · Robin Okuthe

Windows Phone 8 finally launched by Microsoft, sports 46 of 50 top apps

Software giant Microsoft officially launched the Windows Phone 8 (WP8), its next generation operating system for mobile phones, at an event in San Francisco yesterday. → Read more
Mon, October 29th, 12:13 · Elly Okutoyi

Developer Economics Survey 2013 launched

The fourth annual Developer Economics Survey has been launched, with developers invited to participate in an online survey with a range of prizes on offer for lucky participants. → Read more
Fri, October 26th, 09:38 · Paul Adepoju

Phone technology enabling Nigeria’s rural residents to surf in local languages

Nigeria-based IT consultancy firm Adamu Consulting, alongside the Internet USA and the ICT University of Louisiana, is offering a new phone technology called InternetSpeech that allows surfing of the Net in local languages. → Read more
Thu, October 25th, 14:31 · Tefo Mohapi

School Exam Revision Apps proving popular on Mxit

Education apps on Mxit - “Africa’s largest social network” - were popular for the period leading up to the start of South African Grade 12 exams on Monday. → Read more
Thu, October 25th, 08:59 · Robert K'Odingo

Mobile-based initiative to cut death toll on Kenyan roads

Kenya’s integrated telecommunications services provider Safaricom and the Media Owners Association (MOA), an organisation of media agencies, has today launched a three-year multi-sectoral and SMS-based initiative named the “National Road Safety Programme” aimed at addressing runaway road carnage. → Read more
Thu, October 25th, 06:01 · Tefo Mohapi

rara.com launches in South Africa, announces Windows 8 and iOS apps

UK-based online music service rara.com has said it will soon be available in seven more countries, including South Africa. → Read more
Thu, October 25th, 05:51 · Tefo Mohapi

LG Mobile believe its devices are apt for LTE in South Africa

LG Mobile has followed other South African mobile operators in pledging backing for Long Term Evolution (LTE) on their networks, although the technology has been available in the country for 15 months now but with users until recently unable to take advantage of it. → Read more
Wed, October 24th, 13:53 · Gabriella Mulligan

AppChat’s Holdsworth to fight on despite legal defeat

AppChat founder John Holdsworth has been denied leave to appeal a controversial judgment against him but has vowed to fight on to the Supreme Court and push ahead with preparations to launch his new mobile virtual network operator. → Read more
Wed, October 24th, 12:16 · Elly Okutoyi

InMobi vacating its Africa offices

InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile advertising company, has announced that it will be closing down its African offices and relocating to its regional offices in London and other parts of the world, in a surprising move given Africa is the world's fastest growing handset market. → Read more
Wed, October 24th, 10:00 · Robert K'Odingo

Samsung to start adding African Web content onto mobile devices

Electronics manufacturer Samsung, earlier this week during the launch of Samsung Galaxy Note II in Cape Town, South Africa, hinted it would be loading African content onto its range of handheld devices by 2013. → Read more
Wed, October 24th, 07:39 · Paul Adepoju

MasterCard endorses Nigeria’s call for transition to cashless economy

Global payment solutions firm MasterCard Worldwide has added voice to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) call for Nigerians to embrace and switch to the digital regime of a cashless economy. → Read more
Tue, October 23rd, 12:24 · Robert K'Odingo

Mobile and Internet penetration to soar in sub-Saharan Africa

Mobile and fixed telephony subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to soar given the incremental demand of mobile voice and Internet services, a study by Frost & Sullivan shows. → Read more
Tue, October 23rd, 07:43 · Tefo Mohapi

SA’s IT Naledi Solutions partners with Huawei

South Africa-based IT firm IT Naledi Solutions has revealed it has been appointed as an Authorised Service Provider (ASP) for Huawei Technologies, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 14:15 · Gythan Munga

New figures show global mobile penetration lower than first thought

The GSM Association has revealed results of a three-year research project, showing that only 45 per cent of the world-wide population is subscribed to mobile services, leaving much room for global industry growth. → Read more
Mon, October 22nd, 07:11 · HumanIPO

Farmers in Africa await French app that checks cattle’s reproductive behaviour

Medria Technologies, a French monitoring solutions vendor, has developed using Machine-to-Machine communication (M2M) that monitors a cow’s reproductive behaviour and notifies the farmers automatically. → Read more
Fri, October 19th, 13:50 · HumanIPO

Nokia launches mobile service centre in Kenya

Nokia has launched a mobile after sales service dubbed Care on Wheels (CoW) in Kenya aimed at ensuring the Finnish phone-maker’s customers across the country access after sale services conveniently. → Read more
Fri, October 19th, 09:41 · Tom Jackson

UN agencies launch m-Health initiative to tackle non-communicable illnesses

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), both agencies of the United Nations (UN), have teamed up to launch a new ‘m-Health’ programme that will use mobile messaging and applications to fight non-communicable illnesses such as diabetes and cancer. → Read more
Fri, October 19th, 09:36 · Vincent Matinde

Nomanini, the enterprising mobile terminal for prepaid vouchers

Nomanini, a South Africa-based startup, has made it easier for customers to purchase airtime, electricity vouchers and insurance through their mobile prepaid terminal. → Read more
Thu, October 18th, 14:20 · Elly Okutoyi

Apple loses appeal against Samsung in UK

Three Court of Appeal judges earlier today ruled that the Samsung did not infringe Apple’s design rights with its Samsung Galaxy Tabs, making the latter to lose its appeal case. → Read more