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Nokia focuses on local apps, content in Kenya
Electronics manufacturer Nokia is planning to rollout handsets in Kenya embedded with local applications and content, in order to boost mobile sales in the local competitive market. Kenneth Oyolla, General Manager, Nokia East and Southern Africa says mobile application marketing…
Kenya Scoops CNN MultiChoice African Journalist of the Year
Fatuma Noor from Kenya has been awarded the overall winner at the 16th CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2011 Awards Ceremony. The awards, which rotate location each year in tribute to their pan-African credentials, were held at a Gala ceremony hosted…
Telkom SA reveals 2011 tariff adjustments
South Africa’s biggest fixed line operator, Telkom has revealed its 2011 telecommunication tariff adjustments. Telkom’s customers can look forward to an overall tariff decrease of 1.7% on basic voice and data services following the announcement of the Company’s 2011 tariff annual…
Top Tech stories of the week
It has been a rather exciting time in the telecommunications, digital and gadget world this week. As the week’s top stories will attest, we could start seeing very different web addresses, the iPhone 5 might launch in a couple of months and Mozambique…
Nokia’s first Windows phone secretly unveiled
During a highly-confidential media briefing, Nokia‘s CEO Stephen Elop showed off the company’s first Windows Phone 7 smartphone. During the briefing, attendees were asked not to take photos or record videos of the phone, but human nature resulted in some…
Winklevoss twins settle Facebook lawsuit
The Winklevoss twins, who helped Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg start the very successful social networking site, decided to end their legal proceedings against their former classmate and business partner. The on-going legal battle was the basis and inspiration for the…
Microsoft Office gets KiSwahili language pack
Microsoft’s Local Language Program recently launched the KiSwahili Language Interface Pack (LIP) for Windows 7. “We are now happy to be releasing the KiSwahili Microsoft Office Language Interface Pack 2010. There are between 5 and 10 million people in Africa…
Egyptian sexual harassment campaign utilises Twitter
It started slowly, but the Twitter hashtag #endSH quickly began to take hold of the online activism community, and by early afternoon thousands of women and women’s advocates began posting and joining the cause. The call to action was led…
Mozambique to get slice of SEACOM cable
SEACOM, the giant underwater broadband cable, has signed a Master Services Agreement with Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique (TDM), the leading telecommunications service provider in Mozambique. This agreement gives SEACOM and its customers access to the largest and most distributed fibre optic…
Scholars trial free MBA e-learning tool
Regenesys, South Africa’s business, management and leadership school, is offering global students an opportunity to try out their MBA degree for free. “Students often wonder if they are capable of doing an MBA and even if they think they are,…
South Africa’s 8ta demonstrates its mobile capability
Telkom’s mobile network 8ta recently hosted a network showcase and discussion panel in order to demonstrate its vast mobile network capability. 8ta is currently using its mobile platform to address some of its unique fixed line challenges. These include fighting…
Innovation Dinner takes to the clouds
IT News Africa (www.itnewsafrica.com), in partnership with Kaspersky Lab, Hewlett Packard, MTN and Ericsson, will be hosting another evening in their bi-monthly Innovation Dinner series. Bringing together Africa’s ICT professionals, entrepreneurs and senior business people, it serves as a great…
Essar Group won’t sell Yu
After a lot of wrangling in the media over Essar Group’s announcement that it plans to cut back on its investments in Africa, the company said that it has no intention of selling its stake in Yu, Kenya’s leading telecommunications…
Adobe Flash now enables iPad app development
Adobe has recently been pushing out an update for their application development software Flash Builder and the open source Flex framework, that will allow app developers to create various apps for the for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook. This comes…
ICANN approves the use of new domain suffixes
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted in favour of extending the website domain suffixes by private companies , which will allow them to replace .com with their own branding, such as .bank, .vegas, or .store. “This…
Safaricom, Orange ink infrastructure agreement
Safaricom, one of Kenya’s leading mobile providers and Orange, a France Telecom company recently announced a joint infrastructure management agreement. Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore says the new agreement will reduce operational costs and improve customer service. “The two companies have…
