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Sat, October 13th, 08:32 · Tefo Mohapi

Samsung launches Galaxy S3 mini

With the aim of competing more strongly with Apple’s iPhone, Samsung Mobile has unveiled a smaller version of its popular Galaxy S3 smartphone, just months after the original S3 was launched and only a couple of weeks after the iPhone 5 debuted. → Read more
Sat, October 13th, 08:14 · Elly Okutoyi

Kenya’s mobile money worth half national budget

Mobile money deposits made by Kenyans between 2011 and 2012 were close to KSh672 billion (US$8 billion), almost equivalent to half of the country’s national budget approximated at KShs1.459 trillion, reveal recent statistics released by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 14:18 · Tefo Mohapi

Alan Knott-Craig wins “IT Person of the Year Award”

Alan Knott-Craig, CEO of mobile services provider Cell-C and father to Mxit CEO Alan Knott-Craig Jnr, was awarded the 2012 IT Personality of the Year award at the MyBroadband Awards held on October 10 during the MyBroadband Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 14:08 · Paul Adepoju

MTN Nigeria steps up fight against identity theft with new personal security number

Integrated telecommunications firm MTN Nigeria has started issuing 16-digit security numbers to its subscribers to prevent scammers and hackers from stealing customers' identities for fraud, the company announced at an event in Nigeria’s capital Lagos. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 13:47 · Paul Adepoju

Dutch social investor commissions new ICT centre in Gambia

NICE International, a Netherlands-based social venture, has constructed a full-fledged ICT centre in Tabokoto, Gambia, to offer basic training in computer skills. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 13:46 · Tefo Mohapi

Gijima appoint Eileen Wilton as interim CEO

Gijima, the large ICT company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, has announced it has appointed Eileen Wilton as interim CEO following the resignation of former CEO Jonas Bogoshi. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 12:43 · Tefo Mohapi

Garmin SA to offer free lifetime maps to South African customers

Garmin Southern Africa, a leader in GPS satellite navigation, announced yesterday that it will offer free lifetime maps to customers who buy a Garmin Personal Navigation Device preloaded with City Navigator Southern Africa. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 12:42 · Robert K'Odingo

Avanti fails to meet revenue targets, cites corporate caution

African satellite operators Avanti Communications has failed to meet its revenue targets, citing caution on the part of companies taking on bandwidth and new conservative accounting methods. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 12:37 · Vincent Matinde

Vodacom donates computer centre for SA children

Vodacom has unveiled a fully equipped computer centre for Mogoshi Primary School in Limpopo, northern South Africa, in the latest effort to tackle the lack of ICT education resources in the area. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 11:41 · Elly Okutoyi

MTN Ghana and Deutsche Welle take learning mobile

MTN Ghana has partnered with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) to provide its subscribers with a new means to access educational audio content on their mobile phones. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 09:38 · HumanIPO

INTERVIEW: HumanIPO meets Churchill Nanje Mambe, CEO of Njorku

Launched in March last year, Njorku is a career and recruitment platform for job seekers and employers in Africa, looking to become a tool that will serve millions of Africans as they go about their careers and business lives, says founder Churchill Nanje Mambe. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 09:18 · Paul Adepoju

Liberia gets first digital visitors’ map

Visitors to Liberia can now find their way around the capital Monrovia using the first digital visitors’ map, which was produced by John Sheehy of Emerging Business Lab and has several user-friendly features to help users locate important landmarks easily. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 08:54 · HumanIPO

SA’s new business accelerator Seed Engine to link startups to US, UK markets

Seed Engine, a venture capital fund and startup business accelerator, has launched in Johannesburg, South Africa to “bring a new class of venture capital to South Africa” and enable entrepreneurs to develop their ideas, skills and ambitions towards “successful and sustainable commercial realities.” → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 08:32 · Jesse Oguntimehin

J.P. Morgan invests in Africa’s Jumia and Zando

Africa’s fastest growing online retailer Jumia has, alongside South African online fashion retailer Zando, announced that U.S.-based J. P. Morgan Asset Management has injected funds into their operations. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 08:24 · Gabriella Mulligan

SKA telescope means SA has “made it”

South Africa has been chosen as the host for an unprecedented technological masterpiece, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, which will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 08:17 · Tefo Mohapi

Apple co-founder hosted by First National Bank in SA

FNB yesterday hosted Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers together with the late Steve Jobs and credited as the brain behind the Apple I and Apple II computers, at its annual Leadership Conference. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 05:59 · Elly Okutoyi

Tough rules on SIM cards by December, CCK says

Barely two weeks after switching off counterfeit handsets, the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has announced that new SIM card regulations will be introduced by December. → Read more
Fri, October 12th, 04:00 · Paul Adepoju

Cogniko, global digital intelligence company, opens Nigerian office

Cogniko, a leading global technology brand in analytic and digital intelligence, has expanded its business network to Nigeria to increase its clout as a digital solutions provider for local and international markets. → Read more
Thu, October 11th, 13:39 · Paul Adepoju

Nigerian hackers to represent Africa at world challenge

Nigeria will this year be Africa’s sole representative at a global hackers’ challenge dubbed CyberLympics, slated for Miami in the United States later this month. → Read more
Thu, October 11th, 13:27 · HumanIPO

LAGbook to launch Naija Arts, an online game maker, in 2013

Africa's top social networking website LAGbook will early next year launch its online game development arm Naija Arts, as the site hopes to hit the one million subscriber mark. → Read more