Africa

Television news broadcaster eNCA (formerly the eNews channel) has announced the launch of its online presence, a little over a year after Memeburn revealed that it was cooking up a digital strategy.The organisation, part of the multi-billion rand terrestrial broadcasting company Sabido, is one of the biggest players in ...

You don't often hear the words "social media" and "African Union" mentioned in the same breath. And if its latest press release is anything to go by, you can see why.The African Union Commission (AUC), which acts as the executive and administrative branch or secretariat of the African Union ...

Inspired by the recent successful launch of the Television White Spaces pilot in South Africa, I am once again tempted to engage in providing mostly unsolicited advice about what Google’s strategy in Africa ought to be. What I want to propose today is the launching of a Netflix-like streaming ...

African mobile social networking giant Mxit has launched the latest version of it J2ME app, which it says draws heavily, when it comes to looks at least, from its Android and BlackBerry 10 apps.In an official blog post, Mxit says that the updated app comes with a number of ...

Samsung recently launched its solar powered health centre model in Cape Town, marking the start of what it says will be a large-scale medical initiative across Africa. The mobile centres are built for use in remote rural areas, and intended to eliminate the economic and geographic barriers that prevent people ...

The people of Kenya will today start voting in a presidential election. Things have been tense in the lead up to polling day and mobile will play a critical role in both the monitoring and reporting of the situation on the ground.The poll is set up to be ...

Kenyan small business directory Mocality is calling it quits after four years of operation, saying "all good things must come to an end". The announcement came via the company's blog and gave very little detail around the shut down.According to the post, the company will be operational for just another ...

Yes we know there was a time when a cloud was something that floated through the sky and tablets were something you swallowed when you had the sniffles. There was also a time when we thought the sun went round the earth.The point is, the cloud isn't an abstract ...

A few years ago, there was a lot of hype in emerging markets technology was around the US$100 laptop. Getting laptops down to that low cost-point proved tricky but a number of programmes providing people with affordable laptops in emerging markets did roll out. These days, the ambition is the ...

Social networking stalwart Facebook claims one-billion users. That’s around a seventh of the population of the planet. Sometimes it’s easy to believe the internet is comprised solely of Google, Wikipedia and Facebook. But what about more regional social networks, mobile social networks and specifically those with a strong foothold in ...