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Uganda’s telecommunications companies seem to be on a hunt for new revenue streams. Competition has driven down the margins from traditional voice, data and text services; As a result telecom companies have been pushing value added services that ran on top of the traditional services... Read More

After its IPO last month, Rocket Internet, German headquartered e-commerce magnate, venture and startup incubator has announced the grand plan for the next decade. Fronting their proven winners as the benchmark of success, their future is somewhat bullish. In Rocket Internet speak, a proven winner... Read More

AFNOG (African Network Operators Group) held a UNIX system administration and networking workshop for women engineers in East Africa called AFNOG Chix. AFNOG Chix is an annual event under AFNOG that is held in a different African country every year with a goal of training... Read More

Today, at AfricaCom in Cape Town, South Africa, Facebook’s Vice President of Internet.org, Chris Daniels announced the availability of Facebook’s Internet.org app for Airtel subscribers in Kenya later this week. Facebook and partners through the initiative internet.org, launched the internet.org app targeted at providing free internet... Read More

Infocom, now owned by Liquid Telecom, the leading independent data, voice and IP provider in eastern, central and southern Africa, today unveiled a major upgrade of its international Internet gateway in Kampala - with the installation of technology to provide 16 times more international Internet... Read More

Even though a bit late to the wearable party relative to the competition, Microsoft has finally released its long-rumored fitness band that also doubles as a smartwatch -- kind of. The Windows Phone-based 10-sensor fitness tracker isn't shy of features that existing devices already have.... Read More

A weekend to remember is surely an understatement. Close to 70 innovators assembled in 10 teams comprising of developers, designers, marketers and entrepreneurs who worked tirelessly over the weekend to launch their products (prototypes) on Sunday evening. In a record 48 hours; a flurry of code was... Read More

MTN Nigeria, the largest telco in Nigeria with a subscriber base of about 58 million is building (and yet to launch) a gigantic 100GBps data network. It's reported that this network is being built in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, the French global telecommunications equipment giant. In... Read More

If there are bigwigs on the internet landscape, Nigerian celebrity gossip and lifestyle blogger, Linda Ikeiji sure has a defined position. Her blog lindaikeji.blogspot.com was taken down on Wednesday by Google following several copyright infringement cases. Her nemesis, Mr.Mukhtar Dan’Iyan, the Editor-in-Chief of US-based The 15... Read More