Slot Nigeria adds new celebrity ambassador

The Nigerian online retail store for mobile phones today, added DBanj - You read that right - as its new ambassador at their Ikeja office and gifted him with a red glossy Porsche car. Marketing at its best? You definitely guessed right.

Vodafone Internet Help hits Sunyani

Vodafone Ghana continues to wow the Ghanaian internet community with their ever friendly customer-oriented services and the current wave of "internet helps" hitting the country from all regions is no exception. Today the train is hitting the Brong-Ahafo capital:::Sunyani and aim still remains the same - To boost the internet experience of users on the Vodafone platform. Continue reading to see more photos.

iWeek 2015 opens at AITI-KACE Discussing Electronic Payments and Ecommerce

Events in the tech industry in Ghana have been growing in popularity over the past few months. Obviously, a lot more talk, and hopefully action, is going on about tech as the major stakeholders begin to appreciate the way tech is changing lives and making life easier generally. Just about 6 weeks ago, the Africa Mobile & ICT Expo came off in Accra, showcasing tech in a spectacular way, and bringing stakeholders to discuss the mobile device as a tool for economic empowerment.

DEMOAfrica Series: InsureAfrika is how insurance should work

Insurance, not just in Kenya but the entire continent is a pretty hard one. The niche is ruled by brokers and agents most of whom are anything but transparent. The companies themselves are out of touch with the end users who rely on these brokers for product details and trends thus increasing their vulnerabilities. Now, InsureAfrika is out to change that.

DEMOAfrica Series: Koomzo takes 'boring' out of school processes

One area which has seen a few improvements in related software products is education, although education is a major driving force of any thriving economy.
Koomzo is one of the few SaaS school ERP systems that automate all the core school processes. Most of the existing SaaS school ERP systems have placed a lot of emphasis on targeting schools, while Koomzo on the other hand has gone the long mile to ensure that its system can be easily deployed in universities with minimal need for customization. The user interface of Koomzo is highly intuitive, allowing users to fully navigate the system with minimal ICT skills.

Fanboysim? Read Man Utd's Commentaries in pidgin english

Well, I don't know how that sounds but the guy behind the twitter handle @ManUtdInPidgin is definitely 'different shades of witty'. The account sprouted sometime in August and is defintely making waves in its own rights.

Google, Twitter, Publishers aim for a faster web

In a world where many people read everything on mobile phones, a few seconds of load time can mean the gain or loss of millions of readers and advertising dollars.

Now Google wants to help publishers — and itself — by speeding things up.

Google is working with the social media service Twitter and major news publishers like The Guardian and The New York Times to create a new kind of web link and article storage system that would load online news articles and digital magazine pieces in a few milliseconds, according to several people involved in the project. That is a fraction of the five to 10 seconds it can take to load a typical website.

SageSoft brings your favorite quotes to desktop

Just when you thought the heydays of desktop apps were (almost) over, SageSoft is trying to revive your interests in them again. Although quotes may not necessarily be something you spend the whole day looking over, you could be refreshed by that chilling breeze of motivation as an Eistein quote peeks over on your desktop while you are ramming up that boring MSExcel dataset.

TechSQUAD launches for digital project work

Nigerian incubator Co-Creation Hub Nigeria (CcHub) is set to launch TechSQUAD, a platform connecting local businesses and organisations without technical teams to local technologists to work on their digital projects.

CcHub will launch TechSQUAD at an event at its offices tomorrow, having piloted the platform in the runup to this year’s Nigerian elections, during which it supported civil society organisations in building technology platforms.

DEMOAfrica Series: CarParts is IMDB for Auto

Carparts is an online platform that aggregates everything your car will ever need to give that smooth-sailing ride to and fro. From new and used spare parts to experts and real time service vendors and even car auctionings. Hear them in their words...

Microsoft Office 2016 gets release date

Microsoft announced this morning the official launch date for the long-anticipated new version of Microsoft Office: Office 2016 will be broadly available starting on September 22, the company says. Meanwhile, Office Customers with volume licensing agreements will be able to download the software on October 1st.

Nigeria, Kenya tops Facebook mobile users in Africa

Facebook has ranked Nigerian and Kenya top among the countries in Africa as the number one frontier-market for the medium in terms of mobiles to like, share and upload content on the social network.

Fans react to Apple's huge iPad Pro

Yesterday, Apple announced their new line of tablets, the iPad pro along with other luxury devices such as the iPhone 6s and 6s plus as well as a range of smartwatches.
The huge iPad actually generated alot of funny memes from fans as expected...

DEMOAfrica Series: LocName is your address simplified

Everyone gets tired of the informal, unstructured and most times, no-existent addressing system in the continent. Without relying on government systems, LocName helps people to create their own personal LocName containing their location, and most importantly, put it under a unique name that would act as a postcode and a new address.

DEMOAfrica Series: Feem Wifi is Dropbox minus the internet

Feem is a file transfer service that accelerates the speed of file sharing by a factor of about 50. Isn't that awesome? Hear them in their teams' own words.