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Zimbabwe Gets Cashless Transactions for the First Time

Zimbabwe has received its first ever Universal Electronic Payment System (UEPS) thanks to a local firm, SmartPay. This will now put Zimbabwe among the nations with cashless transaction systems. Most…

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Worldreader and FC Barcelona team up to send e-books to Africa

Worldreader, the non-profit company that hopes to increase literacy through the distribution of digital books to children has kicked off a campaign with support from FC Barcelona (Barça) asking people to help…

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Globa's SMS Money Transfer Service Targets Africa’s Unbanked

Started just five years ago in South Africa, Globa is now an international money transfer and mobile payment platform. It continues to grow rapidly, and the firm is now looking…

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Namibia is Africa's Second Country to Launch 4G LTE

Namibia’s Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) has launched 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in the country’s capital city, Windhoek. This puts Namibia among the few countries in the world to…

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19 Year Old Invents Rocket Propulsion Device

A 19-year-old Egyptian university student called Aisha Mustafa has invented a propulsion device intended to offer spacecrafts a new method and cheaper means of energy consumption. The propulsion device promises…

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Nigeria to Ban Use of Foreign IT Products

The Nigeria government yesterday announced a comprehensive ban on foreign computers and technology products use in public institutions in a move aimed at promoting the local industry. The government said…

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SMS Monitoring System Aims to Cut African Childbirth Mortality

With recent statistics showing Kenya’s maternal mortality ratio at 488 per 100,000 live births, a new monitoring system for expectant mothers is set to ease the number of deaths during…

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Spoof App Highlights Oil Pollution in Africa

It looks like oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has come up with a novel solution to the pollution it is widely blamed for in the Niger Delta, Africa. The Live…

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Charge Your Phone with Your Shoe? New Tech Makes It Possible

Kenya’s Anthony Mutua, 24, has developed an ultra-thin chip of crystals that can charge mobile phones when placed in shoe soles. The technology can generate electricity when put under pressure….

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Kenyan Farmers to Receive Storm Alerts via SMS

More than 7,500 coffee farmers in Kenya could start receiving message prompts with warnings on storms and plagues by the end of the year, says the International Institute for Communication and…

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Apple's New iPad Launching in 30 Territories This Weekend

The new iPad is coming to 30 additional territories on May 11th and May 12th, Apple announced on its site today. While we already knew that the tablet would become…

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Twitter Updates Its Mobile Web Version

Twitter has just updated its mobile web version, mobile.twitter.com, the startup announced on its blog today. According to the post, the purpose of this update is to improve Twitter experience for users…

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Turn Addresses into Tags with Waytag

As we check in on Foursquare, Facebook, and Path, share our exact location with our Twitter followers, and generally let the entire world know where we are every minute of…

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Canal+ and Orange Partner for Mobile TV Bill Payments

The French telco Orange and the pay TV operator Canal+ Afrique have signed a partnership to let users pay their subscription fees with their mobile phones, the companies announced today….

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RIM is Opening its First Africa-Based Development Centre

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced that it will be opening its first development centre in Africa, based in Egypt’s Smart Village, just outside of Cairo, local daily Al Ahram…