Google now allows android developers in 9 new countries to submit paid apps to the Google Play Store and charge money for them. Before today, developers in these 9 new countries (and other countries not supported) could only upload free apps to the Google Play Store; android users in these

A programmer in Cape Town, South Africa has developed a simplified and interractive load shedding map for his city. Load shedding, or rolling blackout, is an intentionally-engineered electrical power outage . Delivery is stopped for non-overlapping periods of time over geographical regions. Johann Du Toit, the developer says his load

Diamond bank Nigeria Plc has partnered with Nigerian mobile app GidiMo to serve Nigerians the first ever Diamond Bank National Prep Challenge. The challenge will run on the GidiMo app and will feature examination questions for both students and job hunters. Students can practice questions designed for JAMB which contain

Egypt, in terms of particulate matter is one of the most polluted countries in the world; and according to a recent report by WHO, the daily share of pollution for a person living in Cairo is equivalent to smoking one pack of cigarettes a day. This motivated a group of

Image: Guardianlv.com A group of teenage girls from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya have won the first ever Technovation Challenge award by creating a mobile application which repels mosquitoes by emitting a 15KHz ultrasonic sound. The app, called Quit Mosquito works by playing an ultrasonic

Good news for Wi-Fi lovers. Vodacom has opened up several WiFi hotspots across the country for public use. These hotspots are located in various public locations like pubs, restaurants, parks and cafes. [wonda]Great, now I can download the complete season 3 of Sherlock.[/wonda] Hold on, access to the hotspots is