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Fri, September 7th, 10:46 · Dan Sudi

Swaziland’s SPTC embarks on paralysing wireless services

Swaziland’s leading landline service provider Swaziland posts and telecommunications Corporation (SPTC) has started switching off all its fixed wireless services after losing a legal battle to provide services alongside the country's monopoly telecommunications operator MTN. → Read more
Fri, September 7th, 10:27 · Robin Okuthe

Higher broadband speed hinted would raise Egypt’s GDP

Egypt’s broadband speed, if quadrupled, has the potential to contribute an extra 0.6 percent to the country’s gross domestic product, GDP, according to a study. → Read more
Fri, September 7th, 09:58 · Dan Sudi

Kenya ICT board and KITOS partners with AITEC Africa

The Kenya’s information and technology pioneering group Kenya ICT Board and the latest Kenya IT and Outsourcing Services (KITOS) have partnered with the giant technology event organizer AITEC Africa to be in charge of East Africa ICT Summit with Kenya as the host country. → Read more
Fri, September 7th, 07:49 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya has come a long way in ICT development

The Kenyan government can pride itself on the gains made in ICT development. Since the introduction of a policy to enhance internet as a tool, the government has done much to enhance the sector. → Read more
Fri, September 7th, 07:26 · Vincent Matinde

Civil societies and the Internet freedom question in Africa

Most civil rights activists have not taken the freedoms online, according to Beryl Aidi from the Kenya Human Rights Commission. → Read more
Fri, September 7th, 06:30 · Gythan Munga

Angry Birds maker Rovio unveils Bad Piggies game

Rovio, the makers of the riveting addictive mobile and Web game Angry birds officially announced a new game Bad Piggies on Tuesday. → Read more
Fri, September 7th, 05:48 · HumanIPO

PayAfri launches email money transfer service

In 2007 Eric Muthama, 35, an entrepreneur and Tony Francis, 49, a former banker began on a journey to solve a problem they say hindered merchants in Kenya from receiving payments online. The two came up with PayAfric, a money transfer system that lets users transfer money using their emails. → Read more
Fri, September 7th, 04:00 · Robin Okuthe

IBM makes further expansions in North Africa

Technology giant IBM yesterday announced the expansion of its operations in Morocco following the launch of an expanded location in the capital Rabat. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 14:28 · Robin Okuthe

South Africa’s new social media scores show steady growth rate

The high number of South Africa’s older generation using social networking sites have significantly propelled the rise in the use of the social media platform in the country, a report released Tuesday by technology researcher World Wide Worx shows. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 13:43 · HumanIPO

Kenya may fine offenders US$59K for abusive SMS

Kenyans sending abusive text messages could be fined as much as KSh5 million (US$ 59,000), the government said yesterday during the weekly media briefing. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 12:56 · Dan Sudi

MTN to sponsor Highway Africa conference targeted at boosting media ICT

South African based and Africa’s leading mobile operators MTN will sponsor the Highway Africa conference next week at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 12:30 · Robin Okuthe

Facebook labors at restoring integrity of “Likes” for fair advertising

Facebook Inc is culling out the fake “Likes” on its giant social networking site reportedly used by blackmarketeers, spammers and malware even as it comes to terms with maintaining its credibility as an “authentic” advertising platform. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 10:38 · HumanIPO

Freedom Online conference urges for open ‘Internet for all’

Speaking at the conference, US Asst Sect Mike Posner said countries that try to limit the social aspects of Internet gain nothing in the end. He added that one cannot separate one kind of freedom from another saying there is a new race to connect and it is futile to try to talk about freedoms […] → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 09:37 · Dan Sudi

Uganda’s communications regulator wants to disconnect fake handsets

Uganda’s communications regulator the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) early this week promised to crack a whip and disconnect all fake mobile phones in the country. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 08:56 · Robin Okuthe

Twitter introduces tweet-stream feature

Microblogging site Twitter today introduced a new interactive feature that lets users insert customizable streams on tweets, or Twitter timelines, on their webpages. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 07:52 · Gythan Munga

Opinion: SMS services’ rivalry with WAP applications

A number of games nowadays, aside from gambling, demand the taste of money. Web and mobile apps, which were popular about 10 years ago, have now been eclipsed by SMS that rakes in 28 times the revenue in mobile commerce. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 07:32 · Dan Sudi

Vodacom Tanzania and Nokia partner to unveil Nokia 111

Leading mobile service provider Vodacom Tanzania and giant handset manufacturer Nokia have partnered to introduce Nokia 111 model in the country. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 07:04 · Robin Okuthe

Al-Jazeera’s English website hacked

Hackers calling themselves al-Rashedon, seemingly loyal to the Syrian regime, on Tuesday defaced Arabic news network Al-Jazeera’s English website. → Read more
Thu, September 6th, 04:00 · Dan Sudi

Vodacom Tanzania to celebrate 2 scores next week

Vodacom Tanzania will on Monday mark two major milestones namely two million M-pesa subscribers and close to 10 million customers since the year 2000. → Read more
Wed, September 5th, 14:09 · HumanIPO

IBM’s Global Entrepreneur Program launches to back startups in SA

This year the IBM Global Entrepreneur has expanded the SmartCamp initiative to new geographies, putting South Africa on the map. → Read more