New product seeks to seize mobile handset thieves

The Connected Farmer Alliance (CFA) — a public-private partnership for Vodafone Group, the US Agency for International Development (Usaid) and TechnoServe — has announced its first commercial agreement on the use of mobile technology to increase the productivity of low-income farmers in Tanzania.

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Mobile elearning startup Sterio.me seeks partners, set to launch in Nigeria
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StartupBus Africa was great fun and brought about some really exciting ventures. Some of them, however, have crept off the radar since the startup competition slash hackathon concluded last year November. Sterio.me isn't one of them. The energetic mobile ...

Africa’s N°1 Hotel Booking website, Jovago.com has released its first mobile application in order to facilitate the hotel booking process for its customers and push the ‘mobile first’ initiative of the Africa Internet Group.

Africa’s leading hotel-booking website Jovago announced the launch of a new mobile application which allows customers access their vast inventory of 25,000 hotels in Africa on and offline.

The self-developed Jovago.com Hotels Booking is a free mobile application for the...

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Chama Cha Mapinduzi Presidential flag bearer Dr John Magufuli says if elected for the country’s top job, he would deal vigorously with those who steal medicines from public hospitals in Katavi and Rukwa regions.

>The thriving market for stolen smart phones in Tanzania and elsewhere around the globe is well on track to be a thing of the past, The Citizen has learnt. In just nine months or so, stealing a phone will be a deadly business in the face of advances in technology.

Jewellery store thieves arrested
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Four Tanzanian nationals have been arrested for allegedly robbing a high-end CT jewellery store. Microsoft shows off real-time Skype translator · Tsvangirai hospitalised after 'breakdown' · Snowden: I was trained as a spy · Venezuelan prisoner begins ...

State punishes proven thieves
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MORE than 1,000 local government employees have either been sacked or faced other disciplinary actions for embezzlement of funds between 2010/11 and 2014/15, the House was told. Deputy Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Regional ...

Thieves have stolen nearly $250m of petrol from a single pipeline this year, Nigeria's state oil company says.