Ndemo: Internet fanned Kenya post-election violence
The Internet played a role in the post-election violence that engulfed Kenya early this year, said Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communications.
Bluekey rebrands, launches SAP business one
Kenya's software market got a competitive boost recently when Bluekey, a South African software vendor, rebranded and launched SAP Business One for SMEs (small and medium enterprises).
Three plead guilty to online sale of pirated software
Three Texas men pleaded guilty Friday to charges related to selling counterfeit computer software on the Internet, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Android apps might not feature Bluetooth
While developers have been hard at work building Android applications that can use GPS (Global Positioning System), Wi-Fi and cameras, they just discovered they likely won't be able to offer applications that use one common mobile phone feature: Bluetooth.
Disruption-tolerant nets set for large-scale test
Scientists have begun readying a large-scale field test of a mobile network designed to keep working despite failures, glitches and long delays.
News anchor admits to hacking, leaking e-mail's content
A Philadelphia TV news anchor pleaded guilty today to breaking into his co-anchor's e-mail accounts more than 500 times and feeding information he found there to a local newspaper.
Scammers using Verizon’s name to bilk consumers
Verizon today released a statement warning consumers to be on the lookout for shady letters telling them that they have won a special sweepstakes and that a firm named “Verizon Financial” has authorized a payment to them of $750,000.
Microsoft admits posting flawed update
Microsoft re-released one of its Aug. 11 security updates yesterday, explaining that it had posted an incomplete version to its own download center last week.
E-voting vendor: Programming errors caused dropped votes
An major electronic voting system vendor has changed its story in an attempt to explain how its machines dropped hundreds of votes in Ohio's March primary elections, saying it was a programming error, not the fault of antivirus software.
Intel: WiMax to slash device time-to-market
The certification process for WiMax devices will allow vendors to get new products out to mobile broadband users in one-third the time it takes to put a phone on a carrier's 3G network, Intel said Thursday at its developer conference.
Nigeria donates to IT training center to Sierra Leone
The Nigerian government yesterday donated a multipurpose skills training center to the Waterloo area of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with one of three blocks earmarked for ICT training.
Sierratel starts voice testing on wireless system
Sierratel is now running a test transmission on its wireless phone system, equipment for which arrived from China in June, said Sierra Leone Information and Communication Minister Alhaji I. B. Kargbo yesterday.
Red Hat says its servers, Fedora Project's systems, breached
Red Hat confirmed Friday that hackers compromised infrastructure servers belonging to the company and the Fedora Project, including systems used to sign Fedora packages.
The Coke/Pepsi brain scan and other cool experiments at Human Neuroimaging Lab
The Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine performs groundbreaking research using fMRI scanners. Here's a look at some of the lab's major experiments conducted since it opened in 2003.
Political conventions will be abuzz with wireless data
U.S. presidential nominating conventions used to be criticized as "smoke-filled rooms" because of the cigars that party politicians smoked while they decided on a candidate. Now the delegates are toting Blackberries instead of Cohibas, and the air is thick with radio signals.