Security

VENTURES AFRICA – ADS SAS has partnered with NetClarity Inc., a leading security Solutions Company for mid-sized businesses, to serve as its leading distributor for NACwall in Africa. NetClarity’s NACwall appliances are designed to harden consumer’s network and provide immediate threat assessment and remediation capabilities. This ensures compliance to the most stringent regulatory guidelines while [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The Kenya Elections Hub has been launched by Google Kenya to facilitate the dissemination of information related to the country’s upcoming elections. The Hub operates via an online portal where all members of society, whether in a personal or official capacity, can access information regarding the elections, including news updates, information on [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - In 2012 developers produced a wide variety of new applications, with the African consumer base in particular gaining a range of new communications, professional and entertainment apps to freshen up the mobile user experience. Blackberry Messenger 7 Research in Motion (RIM) this year launched the latest version of the Blackberry messaging app, which [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – South Africa’s new satellite – ZA-ARMC1 – will have superior local design, be more robust and provide greater resolution than its predecessor SumbandilaSAT. This emerged at the weekend’s concluding workshop between the SA National Space Agency (Sansa) and local industry and academic experts, held to decide final specifications for South Africa’s next [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - MTN Business, a subsidiary of the MTN network, has launched a pilot project for its cloud bouquet of services that will provide a single point of contact for SMEs in Africa. MTN Cloud is targeted at SMEs in Africa to help reduce the cost of doing business by offering ICT solutions. MTN’s Executive [...]

VENTURES AFRICA- Nigerian Credit information service firm, Fagbadex Global Services Limited (FGSL) has secured franchise to represent GlobalCIS Credit Information Service of Australia in Nigeria. According to the company’s Managing Director, Friday Agbabule, the collaboration gives Fagbadex the mandate to further leverage on credit report, background check, verification, outsourcing and consultant services to its clients [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – A modest computer, few savings from the part time job in campus and a burning desire to provide people driven technological solutions all worked to birth Interpid Data Systems, a fast growing software and mobile payment solutions company that provide jobs to some 15 Kenyans and has a combined clientele of over [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – German semi conductor manufacturing company, Infineon Technologies will supply security chips for the largest government smart card project in South Africa. Through Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government body “SASSA” (South African Social Security Agency) is issuing biometrically secure EMV/UEPS debit chip cards for financial transactions of social grants across all of South Africa’s [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) has invested in VT iDirect’s new iDirect Series 15100 Universal Satellite hub, the investment is meant to facilitate the deployment of an Evolution-based service to capture the growing broadband market in Nigeria. This was announced by VT iDirect Incorporated on Monday. VT iDirect, a global leader in [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – As internet penetration gradually increases in Africa, world leading software security group, Kaspersky, is prepared to embark on aggressive marketing to strengthen its position in the African market.   The bid to increase its market penetration in providing anti-virus software and software security becomes pertinent as consumers are now going to be [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – On Tuesday, Symantec Corporation and Internet Solutions Kenya announced a partnership that will facilitate the marketing of Symantec.cloud’s hosted range of security services in Kenya and the East African region.   The partnership is similar to the successful model in South Africa.   According to the statement, the partnership will see Internet [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Mike Kivuva, Andrew Mutua and Jotham Nguri, are the three winners of “Nokia Hack” the mobile application competition hosted by Nokia. The two day event pitched developers against each other, in the search for rich, compelling apps for Nokia smartphones.   Mike Kivuva bagged the first prize for his app “Skinswap”, which [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Nigeria’s National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has revealed plans to commercialise imageries from the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X, the country’s two earth observation satellites launched into the orbit recently, starting June.   The Director General NARSDA Seidu Mohammed disclosed NASRDA image commercialisation plans during the industrial visit of members of the [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – More than sixty international high-powered speakers are set to address hundreds of delegates from around the world at Africa’s inaugural ICT conference that will formulate an African Agenda to promote the ICT sector to spur economic and social development throughout the continent.   The four-day event will also discuss various models on [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Eutelsat Communications (euronext paris:ETL) today announced the entry into service of its new ‘IP Easy’ broadband platform built to extend high-speed Internet access to residential and home office users as well as small and medium-sized enterprises across sub-Saharan Africa.   Combining the strengths of Ku-band capacity on the recently-launched EUTELSAT 16A satellite [...]