IT News Africa: Top Stories of the Week

This week in tech has been another busy one. Not only has Sony introduced us to the Xperia E3 smartphone, but Nigerian tech firms have been given a financial boost from CcHUB (Co-creation Hub).

Also gracing the headlines this week was the eCommerce Conference 2014. uAfrica.com revealed the winners of the six award categories highlighting the best in the online retail space at the eCommerce Awards held at the event.

To top things off, we also saw Jumia respond to Africa’s growing mobile market.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend. If you are travelling out to the the I Heart Joburg music festival this week, be sure to drive safe and enjoy.

News

Sony introduces the cost conscious Xperia E3
Sony has announced its latest budget smartphone, the Xperia E3. According to Sony, the Xperia E3 provides unmatched entertainment with features including creative camera apps. It also allows consumers to experience all its features in full throttle. With a quality flagship design body to complement, Xperia E3 is the ultimate smartphone for consumers, without an expensive price tag. Read More.

Nigeria: Emerging tech firms to get financial boost
Start-up businesses are set to receive a major financial boost after CcHUB (Co-creation Hub) boosted its incubation programme with the launch of a $500 000 seed investment fund. The fund is intended to support early stage start-ups for a period of two years. Read More.

South Africa: uAfrica reveals 2014 eCommerce award winners
uAfrica.com has revealed the winners of the six award categories highlighting the best in the online retail space at the eCommerce Awards held at the eCommerce Conference 2014. Read More.

Jumia responds to Africa’s growing mobile market
The mobile internet sector in Africa is developing rapidly, with smartphones becoming much more affordable and growing in popularity. Jumia has taken advantage of this with a mobile app that allows an increasing number of Africans to access the e-commerce platform wherever they are. Read More.

Software AG sponsors Durban ICT Business Breakfast
Africa’s technology news leader ITNewsAfrica.com, today announced that Software AG will be sponsoring the IT News Africa: ICT Business Breakfast. Read More.

Opinions

Building smart cities through ICT Innovation
The concept of the ‘smart city’ has emerged as a term to describe a city that uses technology to address service delivery challenges. However, building a smart city is about more than just using technology – it is about ICT innovation and transformation that improves the quality of life of citizens. Read More.

Real-time business becomes a reality
or the past 20 years, readers and viewers of business and technology publications have repeatedly been told how business is increasingly looking to technology to drive the modern business transformation agenda, and not simply implement it. The good news is that for the first time, the technology actually has the tools to deliver on this promise. Read More.

Top Feature

Is Telkom’s fair usage policy really fair?
Telkom informed its customers that it will be enforcing its fair usage policy. According to the telecom giant, the reason behind the move was in the spirit of enhancing the Internet experience of all its users. Read More.

Gadgets and Gaming

This is what you get for pirating The Sims 4
EA has cracked down on piracy once again. Instead of enforcing the fact that users have to have an active internet connection to play The Sims 4, the company has now opted to pixelate the entire game. Read More.

Review: Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition
Diablo 3 was launched on PC back in 2012; however, since its launch it has been ported to the PlayStation 3 as well as the Xbox 360. Fast forward to 2014 and Diablo 3 has returned… only this time on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Since its launch, I have personally avoided playing Diablo 3… not because it is a bad title or anything, but more for the reason that I just couldn’t get into it. Read More.

Darryl Linington