[NIivashni Nair] Hundreds of South African Facebook profiles have been cloned in the past five days and used to solicit money from the victims' contacts.
28 May 2013 10:15
[Thabiso Mochiko] The growth of mobile money will continue at a rapid rate this year‚ global mobile industry body GSMA said in a recently released report entitled
The Economy of Mobile 2013.
20 Mar 2013 07:09
Hackers have claimed the scalp of the South African Ministry of State Security's Twitter account, underlining concerns that Africa may be the soft underbelly of global cyber security.
6 Mar 2013 09:15
[Helmo Preuss] Research in northern Ghana funded by SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) showed that mobile money can help foster a savings culture and address financial exclusion.
27 Feb 2013 07:33
MoneyGram remittance costs are 5% or less depending on the size of the transaction‚ MoneyGram's Vice President for Africa Hervé Chomel told a media roundtable on Thursday (7 February).
8 Feb 2013 10:45
Test pilots and flight test engineers from Denel Aviation are now taking their skills and experience to clients in countries across Africa.
1 Feb 2013 08:13BRAZZAVILLE, CONGO: A Congolese inventor has unveiled what he says is the first African-designed smartphone.
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1 Nov 2012 08:22
[Duncan McLeod: @mcleodd] TechCentral wraps up the week's major technology news from around the African continent.
21 Aug 2012 10:24
South Africa's technology publisher, ITWeb on wednesday, 9 May 2012, launched its new ITWeb Africa website which will provide news, insight and analysis for Africa's ICT sector, at the Hyatt Hotel in Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa.
9 May 2012 13:41
PARIS, FRANCE / DARMSTADT, GERMANY: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has launched its 2012 Mobile News Grants and Training Scheme, providing newspaper companies in Sub-Saharan Africa an opportunity to develop or expand their mobile platforms.
13 Mar 2012 10:17
SAN FRANCISCO, US: Apple has announced that the latest version of its hot-selling iPhones will be released in China and 21 other countries on 13 January. It is already available in South Africa.
6 Jan 2012 09:43
NEW YORK, US: Global online consumer confidence fell for the seventh consecutive quarter as confidence in 31 of 56 global markets measured declined, according to
from Nielsen, a leading global provider of insights and analytics into what consumers watch and buy.
9 Nov 2011 09:36