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Ghana’s Tigo Launches Country’s First Unlimited Mobile Data Plans

Friday, May 11, 2012

Ghana’s second largest cellular operator, Tigo has announced unlimited mobile internet plans in the country; the first of its kind . Mobile phone users can access the internet with rates starting at GHS 0.99 [$0.53] daily and maxing at GHS 22.99 for an entire month. Laptop and tablet users get daily plans at GHS 1.99 a day and GHS39.99 monthly Tigo’s acting General Manager, Obafemi Banigbe says, with its unlimited internet plans, subscribers can read news, search the internet, stream music and videos without... 

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Even More Exclusive: Rocket Internet To Open Online Clothing Store In Lagos

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

We’ve got news that Rocket Internet, one of Europe’s largest incubator companies, is opening an online fashion goods store in Nigeria. The store will be called Sabunta and will allow users purchase designer branded goods online and have them delivered to a forwarding address. Sabunta’s website currently has a form accepting emails for it’s launch. It’s Facebook page is also live. Rocket Internet was founded in Germany by the Samwer brothers and has a large portfolio of companies around... 

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Samsung Galaxy S III Unveiled: Specs, Photos And Videos

Friday, May 4, 2012

Samsung has finally unveiled the Galaxy S III at its unpacked event in London. At 8.6mm thin, the Galaxy S III runs Android 4.0 and packs a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display powered by a quad-core 1.4 GHz Exynos Proessor, 1GB of RAM, 16/32GB of storage and a 2100 mAh battery. The Galaxy S III sports an 8 megapixel rear camera capable of taking 20 shots in a second and a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera. Connection options include Blutetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi and NFC. Samsung has spiced the original Android flavour a bit by... 

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RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10 OS [VIDEO]

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

RIM has officially unveiled the much anticipated BlackBerry 10 Operating System. The OS will run on upcoming BlackBerry devices which will hit stores later in the year. The BlackBerry 10 runs on a QNX platform much like the PlayBook‘s. The company acquired QNX last year so they could make use of its technologies. RIM also unveiled the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK with support for C/C++ and HTML5 via BlackBerry 10 WebWorks. The new BlackBerry 10 devices will be touch only and will miss RIM‘s great physical... 

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Mobile Web West Africa 2012: Top 10 Tweets

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

  If you missed the entire event that was Mobile Web West Africa and you also missed the hashtag #mwwa2012, here are the top 10 live tweets from the event. ‘Local content, simplicity and accessibility are the key to success.’ Read @samokocha‘s report from #MWWA2012: vc4afri.ca/vkn5y — Bertil van Vugt (@brutuz) April 30, 2012   “…when you showcase them, people do more …” by@otekbits #ictAfrica #mwwa2012 — jean-patrick ehouman (@jpehouman) April 26, 2012 “If RIM was... 

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Facebook to Launch App Centre

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Facebook recently announced that it will be launching “a place to find social web, desktop, and mobile apps” in form of its own App Centre. This App Centre will not be for only Facebook apps but will serve as a portal for meeting all your app needs – Desktop, Mobile and Web. Facebook seems to be attempting to solve the problem of App Discovery which seems to plague most platforms today. They plan to do this by recommending apps to you based on what you and your... Read More

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LGTNigeria Pulls Tweets and Pushes Them Into A Lagos Traffic Map

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LGTNigeria has launched a live traffic map for Lagos, Nigeria. LGT is an acronym for “Let’s Go There”. The service relies on Google Maps and pulls tweets from the prolific @Gidi_Traffic and @trafficbutter. The Lagos traffic map is data driven and uses the Twitter API to filter and cleverly interpret the tweets from both accounts. To view traffic reports on a certain road, you simply click on the road and a box showing the most recent updates from that road pops... Read More

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Mobile

Samsung Omnia M To Launch In Europe

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Samsung has announced an extension of its Windows Phone line: the Omnia M. The Omnia M is initially going to launch in Europe and features a 4-inch Super AMOLED display and 1GHz CPU. Its primary rear-facing camera is 5 megapixels while a secondary front-facing VGA camera is included. To connect with other Samsung users, Samsung [...]

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Gadgets

Samsung Omnia M To Launch In Europe

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Samsung has announced an extension of its Windows Phone line: the Omnia M. The Omnia M is initially going to launch in Europe and features a 4-inch Super AMOLED display and 1GHz CPU. Its primary rear-facing camera is 5 megapixels while a secondary front-facing VGA camera is included. To connect with other Samsung users, Samsung [...]

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Business

Ghana’s Tigo Launches Country’s First Unlimited Mobile Data Plans

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Ghana’s second largest cellular operator, Tigo has announced unlimited mobile internet plans in the country; the first of its kind . Mobile phone users can access the internet with rates starting at GHS 0.99 [$0.53] daily and maxing at GHS 22.99 for an entire month. Laptop and tablet users get daily plans at GHS 1.99 [...]

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Gaming

Angry Birds Space Gets 10 Million Downloads In Less Than 3 Days

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Angry Birds creators, Rovio have announced via Twitter than the recent sequel of Angry Birds – Angry Birds Space, has been downloaded over 10 million times across different platforms. 10 million Angry Birds Space downloads in less than 3 days! Thanks to our fans, stay tuned for more! #angrybirdsspace — Angry Birds (@AngryBirds) March 26, [...]

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