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Mon, June 25th, 05:00 · HumanIPO

Airtel Money branches out to Sierra Leone

Airtel has launched its mobile money, the Airtel money, in Sierra Leone in a bid to make it possible for the people in the country to send and receive money using their phones and without the need for a bank account. → Read more
Sat, June 23rd, 05:00 · Tefo Mohapi

Inaugural Software Week to be launched in Cape Town

The first ever awards for the software industry in South Africa will be presented at the inaugural Software Week in Cape Town. The annual event will be hosted from October 13 to 19, 2012 in Cape Town at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 13:37 · Tefo Mohapi

Silicon Cape continues to nest supportive ecosystem for startups in South Africa

The Silicon Cape Initiative, also the Silicon Cape, has grown to become a champion for technology startups not only in the Western Cape but also in the whole of South Africa since its launch on October 8, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 13:14 · HumanIPO

Facebook’s new feature allows users to edit comments

Facebook has introduced an “edit option” on their site to allow its users to edit or delete a comment they post. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 13:08 · Elly Okutoyi

SIM swop fraud cases on the increase, Vodacom warns subscribers

Vodacom has noted with concern the increasing number of SIM swop fraud attempts to its subscribers by fraudsters. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 12:16 · Tefo Mohapi

SA’s Exclusive Books pioneers gamification and social bookselling

South African retailer Exclusive Books has launched a new feature on its website tagged “Stickers” that brings social business and gamification to online book sale. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 10:00 · Dan Sudi

Airtel Kenya slashes modem prices in a rare promotional offer

Mobile telephone operator Airtel Kenya has reduced its modem prices to KSh1,999 for the 21 megabytes from KSh4,500, and the 7.2 megabytes at KSh999 from the previous KSh1,999. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 09:13 · Vincent Matinde

GSMA begins a data roaming initiative

GSMA, short for Global System Mobile Association, has announced its new initiative to have mobile users know how much they spend whenever they move across regions. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 07:40 · Elly Okutoyi

Uganda to host Africa’s first ever ITSO meeting

The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization's (ITSO) Assembly of Parties meeting is set to come to Africa for the first time. Uganda has been granted the honour of playing the host. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 07:12 · Tefo Mohapi

Google launches YouTube in Ghana

Google announced on Thursday that the people of Ghana will now be able to post videos and also view local videos on the new YouTube Ghana website. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 06:58 · Tefo Mohapi

Twitter goes down for an hour, uses Tumblr to update users

Micro-blogging site Twitter experienced an outage at around 16h30 GMT making access to the website, mobile site and mobile apps intermittent for a period of approximately one hour. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 05:00 · Robin Okuthe

Africa lags in adopting social networking sites

Africa is one of the least dominant regions to have adopted the social networking giant Facebook as the preferred platform. → Read more
Fri, June 22nd, 04:00 · HumanIPO

Huawei says it needs a base in Nigeria to broaden global clout

China's leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider Huawei Technologies has announced it would set up a base in Nigeria. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 14:22 · HumanIPO

Nigeria reverses ban on Foreign PCs

Major PC brands including MAC, Dell , Compaq, HP, Samsung, and IBM and all the other foreign manufactured ones were early last month reported as banned in Nigeria. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 14:17 · Vincent Matinde

South Africa’s FNB, the best in online Banking

A recent survey by All Media and Products Survey (AMPS) showed First National Bank South Africa as leading in online banking. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 12:46 · Tefo Mohapi

Google steps in to save 3,000 plus languages from extinction

Search engine giant Google has launched an initiative to save 3,054 endangered languages worldwide through its philanthropic arm the Google.Org. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 12:23 · Elly Okutoyi

Tunisia takes in a new mobile phone maker, ZTE

A leading Chinese mobile phone maker ZTE has made a dive into the Tunisian mobile phone market making the North African country its newest major outlet. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 12:15 · Vincent Matinde

Wi-Fi to be used to deploy health care devices

Soon, manufacturers will unveil wearable devices to measure your blood pressure, illness and register findings via Wi-Fi. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 11:45 · HumanIPO

Nigeria’s first ever solar powered broadband network expected this year

Nigeria would soon benefit from a solar powered telecommunications network dubbed WorldGSM through a company under the Shyam Group, VNL. → Read more
Thu, June 21st, 09:13 · Elly Okutoyi

Mozambique launches Fax2mobile service

Mozambique’s fixed line operator, Mozambique Telecom or Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TDM), has launched a new service that will enable its subscribers receive faxes on [their] mobile phones from landlines. → Read more