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East Africa Data Centre opens new floor with expanded capacity in Nairobi

April 20, 2018 0

Africa Data Centres, part of telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has opened a new floor at East Africa Data Centre (EADC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The additional floor will provide 500 square metres of rack space for major […]

Visa opens up its developer program to young innovators at Nairobi Tech Week

April 20, 2018 0

Visa has announced that it will be opening up the first Visa Everywhere Initiative for Sub Saharan Africa to young developers at this year’s Nairobi Tech Week (NTW) taking place from April 19 – 21, 2018. […]

IT managers want better protection, visibility from current firewall – Sophos

April 20, 2018 0

Sophos, a global provider of network and endpoint security solutions, has announced the findings of its global survey, The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls, which revealed that IT managers cannot identify 45 percent of their organization’s […]

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Samsung Galaxy A8+ smartphone now available in Kenya for Kshs 60,000

Samsung Electronics has introduced the Galaxy A8+ smartphone to the Kenya market. Charles Kimari, Head of Internet and Mobile at Samsung Electronics East Africa said the release of the Galaxy A8+ brings high-end features from the flagship [...]
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Sony MEA introduces new addition to full-frame mirrorless camera range

Sony Africa and Middle East (MEA) has introduced an addition to its full-frame mirrorless camera line-up, the α7 III, model ILCE-7M3. Sony’s innovation within the image sensor space is at the forefront of the new α7 III, as [...]
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Nokia 1, a dual SIM phone, to be unveiled locally in mid April, cost Kshs 9,500

HMD Global has announces that the Nokia 1 smartphone, running on Android Oreo (Go edition) will be available for purchase from retail stores in the country at an estimated price of Kshs 9,500 from April [...]
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Samsung’s 2018 QLED TVs blend with owner’s interior décor, set for Kenyan launch

Samsung launched its 2018 QLED TVs globally on March 7 2018, ushering a new era of intelligent display while the new TVs are set to be launched in Kenya in July 2018. The company’s 2018 [...]
Reviews

VIDEO: Here are 9 of the Galaxy S9’s most exciting features

Featuring refined designs and Samsung’s most advanced cameras yet, the Galaxy S9 and S9+ offer powerful tools to transform how users capture special moments, express themselves and enjoy immersive entertainment. Both devices offer a smartphone [...]
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Samsung Max, a new mobile app, unveiled to help users save data, enhance privacy

Samsung has from today – February 23, 2018 – introduced Samsung Max, a new and free Android app designed to promote mobile data savings and app privacy management, with data usage monitoring and enhanced Wi-Fi [...]
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Nokia N6: Continuing in the footsteps of its predecessors’ design heritage

By Siddhartha Chudasama Nokia was one of the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturers but it fell behind with the advent of iPhone and Android smartphones. In 2014, Microsoft came knocking in the form of a saviour [...]
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CES 2018: Five trends to watch and new Windows 10 devices that power them

By Terry Myerson It’s exciting to kick off the new year with our incredible partners at CES, the world’s gathering place for people who love consumer technology. As I walked the floor and met with [...]

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East Africa Data Centre opens new floor with expanded capacity in Nairobi

Africa Data Centres, part of telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has opened a new floor at East Africa Data Centre (EADC) in Nairobi, Kenya. The additional floor will provide 500 square metres of rack space for major [...]
News

Visa opens up its developer program to young innovators at Nairobi Tech Week

Visa has announced that it will be opening up the first Visa Everywhere Initiative for Sub Saharan Africa to young developers at this year’s Nairobi Tech Week (NTW) taking place from April 19 – 21, 2018. [...]
Analysis & Features

IT managers want better protection, visibility from current firewall – Sophos

Sophos, a global provider of network and endpoint security solutions, has announced the findings of its global survey, The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls, which revealed that IT managers cannot identify 45 percent of their organization’s [...]
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Brian Rono wins second season of BYOB TV show, takes home Kshs 5 million prize

The second season of the BLAZE B.Y.O.B. TV Show came to an end on Sunday April 14, 2018, with Brian Rono walking away with the grand prize of Kshs 5 million following 10 weeks of intense [...]
Events Noticeboard

Third Education Innovation Summit set for May in Johannesburg, South Africa

The Education Innovation Summit is set to take place on May 31, 2018 at the Hilton, Sandton in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hosted by IT News Africa, the summit is designed to bring together innovation leaders and the academic community [...]
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China’s LUN Partners leads $4.5 million funding round in MSF Africa

MFS Africa, a pan-African FinTech company, has announced a US $4.5 million Series B funding round led by LUN Partners Group, a China-based global investment management group. Goodwell Investments, an Amsterdam-based investment firm focused on financial inclusion, [...]
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OPPO set to unveil its latest model, the OPPO F7, in local market

After launching a wide range of devices in the country in the first quarter of 2018, OPPO is at it again, anouncing plans to carry forward the legacy of its selfie-camera centric F series with its latest [...]
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IBM’s blockchain solution enables Twiga Foods to extend loans to 220 retailers

IBM Research and Twiga Foods, a business-to-business logistics platform for kiosks and food stalls in Africa, have announced that they have extended access to microloans to 220 food stall retailers across Kenya using a blockchain-based financing [...]

Analysis & Features

IT managers want better protection, visibility from current firewall – Sophos

Sophos, a global provider of network and endpoint security solutions, has announced the findings of its global survey, The Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls, which revealed that IT managers cannot identify 45 percent of their organization’s [...]
Analysis & Features

To get more people to shop online, Jumia now opens offline experiential zones

It is said that getting to the top is not the difficult part, but staying there is. Being in the top position means that apart from always checking your shoulders to see who’s breathing down [...]
Analysis & Features

Lori Systems, Jamii showcase innovations at Afrikonnect in Morocco

The first edition of Afrikonnect took place from March 22 to 23, 2018 at LaFactory, located at Technopark Casablanca in Morocco. The event was organized by StartupYourLife and LaFactory in partnership with Outlierz Ventures with support from the US [...]
Analysis & Features

With Gurib-Fakim’s ouster, PIE has claimed it’s first major casualty

Somethings, and people for that matter, are best kept away from. For associating with and being associated with such things and people eventually makes one become guilty by association, hurting their careers as well as [...]
Analysis & Features

AI-based apps will increase vulnerability of firms to cyber-attacks – Allianz report

Chatbots, autonomous vehicles, and connected machines in digital factories foreshadow what the future will look like: The widespread implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications brings many advantages for businesses such as increased efficiencies, fewer repetitive [...]
Analysis & Features

Sophos makes it to 2018 Superbrands annual report, for second time in a row

Sophos, the network and endpoint security solutions provider, has been included in the UK Superbrands 2018 Annual Report. This is the second year the IT security firm has qualified as a Superbrand, which is voted on by [...]
Analysis & Features

Kshs 420 million of Universal Service and Access Funds unused in Kenya – report

New research from the Web Foundation, the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4Ai) and UN Women, released at the 62nd UN Commission on the Status of Women, calls on governments to invest at least 50% of funds [...]
Analysis & Features

Data is king: Demystifying the power of Big Data and Analytics

In an age where information gathering is no longer a process that goes to complete waste, the onset of the Internet of Things, Big Data and the Cloud have given revived hope and presented endless [...]