Orange Money customers will have access to a Visa prepaid account The service enables Orange, in partnership with financial institutions, to offer Visa prepaid account services on mobile phones to unbanked and under-banked consumers France Telecom-Orange (NYSE:FTE) and Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) today announced that Orange Money customers will soon have access to Visa [...]
The *iHub_ robotics initiative started last year as a way for members with interest in computer hardware and robotics to have a platform to share ideas and collaborate. Towards this end, [...] Related posts:iHub Robotics Initiative The *iHub_ Robot Initiative. Since its founding over a year… Green member with a Robotics Ardor 3 months ago, we introduced an iHub Robotics Initiative. We… Green Membership applications reopening soon It’s been slightly over a year since we had our…
In mega disputes the kind Econet Wireless International fights globally, you need neutral parties seeing things from your angle, and as many voices on your side as you can get. When you understand this the way Econet does, the logical decision to take is to go out there and tell your story; the whole story according to how you saw things unfold from the beginning. Either that or
I have to come clean about this – I review many phones, and normally when the review period is over I cannot wait to get my SIM card back into my iPhone. But when reviewing the Lumia 800 something very strange happened: I moved my SIM card back to my iPhone (currently a 4S), and then a few hours later I put it back into the Lumia. I don’t know what exactly it is about this
The Ministry of Education and KNEC is expected to release the KCSE 2011 results by 12 noon today. The Ministry is tying to use the technology in delivering the results to all stake-holders. The problems is that KNEC’s website always becomes inaccessible whenever the results are released. We do hope that it would be better this time. Just like the KCPE results, there are 3 ways in which you can get the KCSE results; SMS
Across Africa there is a vibrant culture of people creating things. Hardware products. It’s rarely glamorous as our inventors and micro-entrepreneurs innovate on products due to necessity — there simply aren’t enough jobs and they need to feed their families. Regardless of the reasons why they do it, what this has created is a culture of innovation. When you have a problem in Africa, there isn’t another option, you either improvise, adapt and overcome, or you
The median growth rate for an African leader’s Facebook following has slowed to 10% since October 2011, but is still very much positive. This post is an update of October 2011′s list of African leaders with a Facebook presence. The numbers and a couple of links have been adjusted. Stats from July 2010, December 2010, March 2011, and June 2011 are still available. As always, the challenge is determining what share of fans of these pages are diasporans. A solid number of nations – most
The Hub has launched Culture Shift is a 6-month ideation and support program for innovators from the creative, commercial and digital sectors. Its overall objective is to develop and realise practical solutions for sustainable impact. Starting off with a 3-day Innovation Weekend on March 23rd to 25th, Culture Shift provides: R50,000 seed funding and mentoring [...]
“These days you can crowd-map just about anything, from Hurricane Irene to what you eat for breakfast, as long as you either have a phone or a basic internet hook-up. One of the largest and most used platforms for crowd-sourced mapping is Ushahidi (Swahili for ‘witness’), an open-sourced platform has been used for tracking and mobilizing movement around more serious topics. Ushahidi was used in developing Syria Tracker, a crowd-sourcing of reported deaths in the conflict in Syria. Now the Ushahidi platform is putting technology
The iHub has in the past engaged with different stakeholders and communities outside the tech domain with a view to identify and take advantage of opportunities as well as tackle [...] Related posts:Applications are officially open for The Mentorship Program Today, we are proud to announce that applications are officially… Acumen Fund East Africa Fellows Program now accepting applications! Acumen Fund is proud to announce the East Africa Fellows… Apps4Africa Eastern Africa: Regional Opening The 2011 Apps4Africa:
The winning Inuka team with judge Kamal Budabhati (Craft Silicon) celebrating their first price. The first Startup Weekend Nairobi has been won by Inuka Kenya, an online platform to connect non-tech entrepreneurs in Kenya. They were chosen by a experienced jury from a total of 14 entries. Since Friday evening about 90 starting entrepreneurs worked hard to get a demo of the idea ready for Sunday. Who can best solve our problems in Kenya? The people who
Apps are the future. We all know that. Some even believe a new “app economy” may replace the web itself. But what about the app stores, the places we go to buy the apps? The Android Market and Apple’s App Store have hundreds of thousands of apps. Even smaller stores like Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace and BlackBerry’s App World have tens of thousands of apps. Does the sheer scale of OS-specific app stores mean there’s
According to statistics published by zoomsphere, a social media analytics platform ,Africa has 5 772 194 registered users on LinkedIn. The information is as of February 27 2012 and digs into each African country’s most active companies by members and activity. Zimbabwe is understood to have 103 400 registered members, making it the 11th biggest Linkedin user base in Africa. The top twenty countries on the continent are as follows [...]
ZTE might not be a name as familiar to many smartphone shoppers. On these shores it may lag behind Samsung and HTC but in its native China, ZTE is a telecoms giant. Its lack a major profile outside of its native country although this could be set to change with the launch of its latest device. It
Norwegian Internet firm Opera has introduced Opera Mini Next, a new mobile Web browser aimed at giving feature phone users a more social Internet experience. The Browser was Unveiled at Mobile World Congress less than 24 hours ago. Opera Mini Next is a developer beta of its popular Opera Mini browser. It is meant to give its users ‘fast and easy access to social networks from the browser home screen through its new tab called ‘Smart