Techweez: Samsung Galaxy S 4 gets TCO Certified, a first among smartphones 16 May 2013 - Samsung Galaxy S 4 today won the TCO Certification from TCO which is the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees. TCO thus is a Swedish abbreviation. The certification that Samsung Galaxy S 4 got is for the packaging of the Galaxy S 4 for it’s eco-...
Techweez: Nokia Launches Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 in Kenya 16 May 2013 - Kingori Gitahi, Left, Nokia East Africa Product Marketing Manager and right Bruce Howe, Nokia East Africa GM at the media launch.
Nokia today launched the Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 that were announced on February at Mobile World Congress. India got a local launch...
IT News Africa: Tigo Rwanda launches BlackBerry Z10 16 May 2013 - Rwanda mobile service provider Tigo has announced that BlackBerry’s latest smartphone, the Z10, is now available for mobile subscribers in the country, and added that the Z10 is fully supported by...
IT News Africa: Uganda forms ICT Association of Uganda 16 May 2013 - Uganda has officially launched the ICT Association of Uganda (ICTAU), a sector lobby group which aims to bring together ICT professionals and policy makers to share ideas on how to further the...
Ushahidi: Ushahidi Android App v3.1.6 Is Here 16 May 2013 - Today we are happy to release version 3.1.6 of Ushahidi Android app to the Google Playstore. This release includes
Integration of the Ushahidi Java SDK
Updates to user navigation menus – including admin dashboard access from the app
Support for Google...
TechMoran: Orange Inaugurates A New Campus In Senegal For Managerial Development 16 May 2013 - The new Orange Campus site in Senegal will help develop managerial capacity of Orange Group managers present in 20 African countries says France Telecom-Orange Group. The Orange Campus is located in the Dakar technology park and is set to offer development...
IT News Africa: Orange Campus set up in Senegal 16 May 2013 - With the creation of a new Orange Campus site in Senegal, the France Telecom-Orange Group, which is present in some 20 African countries, reaffirms its commitment to strengthening its worldwide...
CIO: Ericsson profiled among the top 5 telecom operations management vendors 16 May 2013 - In further confirmation of its market leadership, Ericsson was named the worldwide leader in telecom operations management by leading industry analyst firm Gartner (Market Share Analysis: Telecom Operations Management – BSS, OSS and SDP, Worldwide, 2011-2012,...
iHub: FIRE Programme Awards 2013: Submit your applications by May 31st 16 May 2013 - Due to immense interest in the FIRE Programme Awards 2013, we are extending the deadline. We don’t want you to miss out, so here is your last opportunity to apply for the awards. The deadline for submission is now 31 May 2013! The Fund for Internet Research and...
CIO: Sony Cyber-shot HX300, improved performance with high-speed autofocus 16 May 2013 - If you are true rangefinder, then the Sony Cyber-Shot HX300 is well constructed for you with a 50X Optical zoom range. This still camera has DSLR-like capabilities allowing ease of travel without the need to tag along extra lenses.
TechMoran: Nigeria’s Zanfia.com Wants To Link Shoppers With Online Retailers Countrywide 16 May 2013 - Set to be launched in beta soon Zanfia.com is an online resource for shoppers and retailers in Nigeria to help them navigate across the several online retailers in Nigeria to help them save money and time. Zanfia aims to give customers access to different online...
IT News Africa: SA’s PriceCheck wins BlackBerry App of the Year 16 May 2013 - South African mobile shopping app, PriceCheck, has won the coveted BlackBerry App of the Year category in the BlackBerry Achievement Awards, beating off competition from more than 100 000 world-class...
IT News Africa: Nigeria’s daily EFT value in the billions 16 May 2013 - Nigeria’s Daily Trust reports that according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) the total value of electronic funds transfer now stands at N80 billion (approximately $508 million) per day. Tunde...
Nation Tech: Google debuts music service for mobile gadgets 15 May 2013 - Google on Wednesday rolled out a music service for smartphones and tablets powered by its free Android software, in a challenge to streaming radio firms such as Pandora and Spotify
Techweez: Galaxy S4 Google Edition Announced at Google I/O 15 May 2013 - Google will be releasing the Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Edition in June 26th. The device will run on the same Android platform as the Nexus smartphone therefore there’ll be no Samsung skin on top of the OS. Other features include an unlocked bootloader,...
Techweez: Hands on Review: A Week with the Galaxy S4 15 May 2013 - The Galaxy S4, they got it right and they also got it wrong. Dive into the review to discover the good, the bad, and the ugly about this great product.
THE GOOD!!!
The screen… 5′ is brilliant (any way you read this). 441 ppi packs a punch…I...
Techweez: 75% of Smartphones Sold in Q1 2012 Were Android Devices 15 May 2013 - More than 210 million smartphones during the first quarter of 2013. 74.4 percent of these run the Android operating system. This is a rise from 56.9 percent during the first quarter of 2012. Apple’s iOS comes second at 18.2 percent, down from 22.5 percent...
CIO: ‘Freight Train’ of added traffic to hit ICT networks globally 15 May 2013 - Two recently published white papers have projected large increases in ICT network traffic over the next five years. Each points to a different source of growth, which impacts different parts of the corporate network. Mobile data (of which video will form an...
Ushahidi: Weekly: Iscram update, Art and Gifs 15 May 2013 - While we are pushing code left, right and center, we’ve been know to have a few smiles with our own Gif Star. It makes for fun reading on github.
Evan Sims – gif star
Our team was also drooling a bit this week over the shout out on a favourite...
IT News Africa: Sony announces Gran Turismo 6 15 May 2013 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has today announced that Gran Turismo 6 (GT6), the latest version of PlayStation’s best-selling franchise, will be released in Holiday, 2013. The news was revealed by...
Techweez: Olo Cloud Case for Samsung Galaxy S4 Review 15 May 2013 - I was quite eager to get my Galaxy S4 a case as soon as it arrived in my hands that as soon as cases were available online I made my request from Mobile Fun. The one I found to strike a balance between fit, sleekness and care for my device was the Olo Cloud case...
iHub: Tech Meets Conservation Meetup: 15 May 2013 - Save the date: Tuesday 21st May, 5 – 6 pm By Evans Campbell iHub Consulting is proud to invite you all to the second Tech Meets Conservation meetup, to be held on Tuesday, 21st May 2013. The event will be a follow-up of our first meetup and will now...
Techweez: Blue Arctic Galaxy S4 Gets Outed 15 May 2013 - Remember this?
It is real!
We have known for a while now that Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will be available in a third colour option i.e. Blue Arctic. It came as no surprise when news trickled in this morning that indeed the Black Mist and White Frost Galaxy S4’s will...
Techweez: Android 4.3 pops up in searches on Google developer site 15 May 2013 - Google I/O is expected to start in a few hours, and speculation is rife. Many people expected that Google will finally unveil the next version of Google’s OS, Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie.
These hopes are diminishing by the minute with talks of releasing of...
