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Wed, December 24th, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju

Q&A: Erick Kande, CEO and co-Founder, Escola Online

Kande is the CEO and co-Founder of Escola Online. In this interview, he spoke to HumanIPO about the startup and the startup community in Mozambique. → Read more
Sat, November 22nd, 21:38 · Paul Adepoju

Review: Cyberoam’s CR10iNG Unified Threat Management appliance

Cyberoam Technologies has launched CR10iNG which it described as the fastest and most affordable Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliance for SOHO/ROBO markets. → Read more
Tue, October 28th, 13:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Cyberoam launches CR10iNG for small offices

Leading network security appliances provider Cyberoam, has launched CR10iNG, “the fastest & most affordable UTM (Unified Threat Management)” appliance for SOHO/ROBO markets that is expected to extend enterprise level network security to small and branch offices, making them future ready for security needs. → Read more
Tue, October 14th, 13:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Water.org to invest over Shs178million in Kenya and Uganda

Water.org has announced plans to invest over Shs178million (US$2million) in WaterCredit programs in the next one year to ensure accessibility to safe water and sanitation in Kenya and Uganda. → Read more
Tue, October 14th, 12:00 · Susan Mwenesi

IT Services Providers should address requirements of African Market when Implementing Global Best Practices-IDC

African countries such as Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, and Nigeria, in cooperation with international developmental agencies, academia, and ICT vendors, are making considerable investments in ICT infrastructure, presenting attractive opportunities for IT service providers in the process. → Read more
Fri, October 3rd, 14:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Cyberoam partners Kenya’s BusinessIT Afrika to market its products

India’s Network Security appliances provider, Cyberoam -has today announced its partnership with BusinessIT Afrika Ltd, a Kenyan based company that offers IT solutions to private and public businesses. The partnership will see BusinessIT market Cyberoam’s IT security solutions of Cyberoam. → Read more
Thu, October 2nd, 16:00 · Susan Mwenesi

IT services spending to increase in SA

IT services spending in South Africa is expected to increase 10.5% year on year in 2015 to total $5.7 billion, according to the latest forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). → Read more
Mon, September 29th, 11:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Oracle Launches Capacity-Building Programme to Close IT Skills Gap in Africa

Oracle Corporation has announced a four-pronged program devised as a response to the rapid adoption of new technologies by governments and businesses in Africa, exacerbating the shortage of suitably skilled practitioners to use the systems to best advantage. → Read more
Fri, September 26th, 17:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Matiangi decries High-end ICT skills gap in public sector

Kenya’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiangi has decried the lack of high-end ICT skills in the public sector needed to compliment the laid down infrastructure and automated process as the country’s migrates its programs to the digital platform. → Read more
Thu, September 11th, 14:00 · Susan Mwenesi

Merck adopts e-learning solutions to fight diabetes

Medical students of Makerere University, Uganda and University of Namibia and Univeristy of Nairobi will be included in Merck’s five year project to provide European Accredited Clinical Diabetes Management course for medical and pharmacy students in African Universities through E-Learning. → Read more
Mon, September 8th, 16:00 · Susan Mwenesi

John Muthee appointed GeoPoll VP of Business Development in Africa

John Muthee is the new Vice President of Business development in Africa for GeoPoll, the world’s largest real-time mobile survey platform. → Read more
Tue, September 2nd, 08:51 · Paul Adepoju

Bank of Khartoum, Zain launch first mobile money service in Sudan

Bank of Khartoum and telecoms company Zain have launched Sudan's first mobile money service called Hassa. The bank said the service is available to all registered Hassa mobile account customers in Sudan. → Read more
Fri, May 30th, 16:30 · Paul Adepoju

Microsoft partners AfDB to boost African ICT access

Microsoft has partnered the African Development Bank (AfDB) in a move that will see the bank invest US$20 million to develop technologies designed to boost ICT access in Africa. → Read more
Fri, May 30th, 14:30 · Paul Adepoju

NCC launches Service Charter for service delivery optimisation

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has launched a Service Charter aimed at ensuring the commission effectively and efficiently delivers its mandates and programmes. → Read more
Fri, May 23rd, 12:30 · Susan Mwenesi

Malawi electronic vote counting system breaks down

This week’s elections in Malawi were disrupted after the country’s expensive electronic vote counting system broke down in spite of heavy investment, with election officials resorting to fax and email to tally the votes, causing delays in the release of the results. → Read more
Mon, May 19th, 10:00 · Susan Mwenesi

East African banks launch payment system

Central bank governors drawn from the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania on Friday launched the East African Payment System (EAPS), allowing for faster cross-border transfers. → Read more
Mon, May 5th, 09:30 · Agatha Nduku

Facebook introduces anonymous login

Facebook has announced the availability of an anonymous login feature, allowing users to log into apps without sharing any personal information, along with a new version of Facebook Login with better privacy controls. → Read more
Thu, April 17th, 18:30 · Paul Adepoju

Africa lagging behind in technology acquisition – Woherem

Africa is lagging behind in technology acquisition compared to other continents, Dr Evans Woherem, chairman of Digital Africa Global Consults, told a press conference marking the launch of the 2nd Annual Digital Africa Conference. → Read more
Wed, April 16th, 18:30 · Agatha Nduku

Business Connexion targets ‘sustainable’ return on total equity

JSE-listed Business Connexion (BCX) is set to achieve its plans of reaching a sustainable return on total equity of 17 per cent as it targets African expansion and continues merger and acquisition activity. → Read more
Fri, April 11th, 19:30 · Abdirizaq Hussein

Microsoft, University of Nairobi launch cloud computing academic research

The University of Nairobi (UoN) with the support of Microsoft and the Kenya ICT Authority has released a baseline survey on cloud computing and its impact in Kenya, showing 57 per cent of respondents adopted cloud technology in either 2010 or 2011. → Read more