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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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