TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY

You love local and regional news? Get NewsDrift

NewsDift, an Android app developed by our own Abel Masai, has been created to deliver daily news sourced from the major news publications including Daily Nation, The Star and Capital…

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TECHNOLOGY

African countries attracting international tech firms

With the tech industry in Africa growing exponentially and internet and cellular infrastructure expanding across the continent, the spotlight on African tech companies has become even brighter. Africa has become…

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STARTUPS TECHNOLOGY

Tech Start-ups Part1: What it takes to get better deals

The spotlight over Dimension Data’s acquisition of AccessKenya at Kshs 3 billion has demonstrated that contrary to the myth shared of tech in Kenya, there is monetary reward in our…

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TECHNOLOGY

A Simple Breakdown Of The Latest Facebook Page Insights For Newbies.

If you manage a page on Facebook, you have probably noticed that insights have changed. If not, then you shall behold this new “marvel’ when it is rolled out to…

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TECHNOLOGY

30 Minute Call Time Offer, As Microsoft’s Skype Celebrates 10 Years Of Existence.

If you Skype regularly then this should be great news for you. To celebrate the fact that Skype has been around for a decade, you get 30 mins if you…

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TECHNOLOGY

Twitter Finally Introduces “Report Tweet” To Curb Cyber Bullying.

According to The Telegraph, Twitter has now introduced a “report tweet” segment to its social network. This comes hot in the heels of debilitating threats, that were directed at women…

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TECHNOLOGY

Low cost high-speed Internet is now possible in rural areas

Bharti Aritel Limited and SoftBank Mobile Corp have been doing field trials on low-cost 3G Internet using satellite as a transmission line in Kenya. The trial was commissioned due to…

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TECHNOLOGY

Review of the new Nokia 515 and Price

Nokia has released a new feature phone, the Nokia 515. The phone comes in a contemporary design and is available in single SIM and dual SIM variants. The screen is…

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TECHNOLOGY

Deadly Facebook virus affects over 800,000 users

There’s a new password-swiping virus spreading on Facebook, and once again the malware preys on the social trust accrued by the network. Over 800,000 people have already been affected by…

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TECHNOLOGY

Guide to buying an affordable but useful smartphone

Let’s be honest, high end smartphones are damn expensive because of some not so useful features (if it is not useful it is useless, right?). Take S4 for example, who…

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TECHNOLOGY

He wants a million dollars to use Facebook

He makes extensive efforts to encrypt his communications, blocks out ads on his web browsers and maintains his own server. He uses a “dumb” mobile phone that does not transmit…

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TECHNOLOGY

Brain-Brain Interface for controlling another by mere thoughts

Recently Forbes.com reported that scientist can now read what you have been reading. In that article, it is explained how scientists can now read the exact letters that you recently…

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TECHNOLOGY

Ericsson Kenya champions Open Access for Kenya’s LTE deployment

Ericsson Kenya has called for the adoption of the open access mode for the Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks (generally known as 4G network) in Kenya. The Ericsson Kenya’s Business…

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TECHNOLOGY

Participate and win with Google’s ‘Africa Connected’ Initiative

Google has introduced a competition for entrepreneurs whose lives have been transformed by the web. The competition targets entrepreneurs who exhibit creativity, interest in web opportunities, and innovation potential from the fields of…

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TECHNOLOGY

Is TECNO a threat to Samsung in Africa

Today Robert Alai tweeted; Robert Alai ?@RobertAlai1h Brands like TECNO are disrupting the market with powerful but affordable handsets for consumers in Africa. #EricssonBroadband To this  oluSunYAh ?@oluSunYAh1h replied; @RobertAlai and that’s why…

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TECHNOLOGY

Are African Governments Facebook Illiterate?

Governments of 74 countries requested Facebook to provide them with Facebook’s users’ data to facilitate investigations on serious crimes such as kidnapping  and robberies. Facebook reported that the nature of…

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TECHNOLOGY

Ericsson and Zamtel to demonstrate 4G in Zambia

4G mobile communications technology (LTE) will be demonstrated for the first time in Zambia by Ericssson and Zamtel during the 20th General Assembly of the United National Tourism Organization (UNWTO)…

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TECHNOLOGY

Samsung Announces A Galaxy Tab Just For Kids

Samsung today confirmed its plans to launch a version of its Galaxy Tab designed for kids with the announcement of the Galaxy Tab 3 Kids tablet. The tablet will come pre-loaded with…

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TECHNOLOGY

It is not yet time for Internet.org

Last week Facebook in partnership with other big names announced the Internet.org project which is aimed at connecting the next 5 billion to the Internet. Many similar initiatives for increasing…

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TECHNOLOGY

Samsung’s trick of driving attention away from iPhone 5s

It’s only a few weeks to the launch of iPhone 5s and already there are reliable rumours about the features of the next Samsung’s flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S5….

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TECHNOLOGY

It’s not all bliss with startups when it comes to job creation

Someone has been following startups for the last thirty years. The findings from the follow up is interesting because it has significant implications on startups’ contribution to job creation. We…

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TECHNOLOGY

What The Latest Facebook Changes Mean For Content Creators.

Brands keep evolving, or tweaking their strategies in a bid to ensure that they maintain profitability. Some may see this as drifting from the original plan, but sometimes you have…

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TECHNOLOGY

Facebook users get a canon camera

Canon has  gift for Facebookers, a 12.1-megapixel and a DIGIC 5 processor PowerShot N Facebook Camera.  The camera let’s you take pictures and upload them to Facebook with a press of…

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TECHNOLOGY

Yahoo climbs to position one in US

Yahoo received the highest number of unique visitors at 196.6 million visits in the month of July 2013, against Google’s 192.3 million unique visits. The data released by ComScore places…

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TECHNOLOGY

M-Pesa should stop being dumb and go smart

[pullquote]Swiping plastic money is already a thing of the past. The next thing to swipe is a smartphone[/pullquote] Today M-Pesa is the default money transfer service in Kenya with over…

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TECHNOLOGY

Trouble over “please call me” invention

South Africans have been following a David-Goliath battle at the North Gauteng High Court for the past three weeks. This battle surrounds a claim by a former employee of Vodacom, Nkosana Makate…

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TECHNOLOGY

Your Facebook News Feed to be of better quality as Facebook addicts get a solution

Facebook has worked on how News Feed will appear on your Facebook homepage. From now on Facebook users will be able to receive, mostly, only the interesting updates from pages…

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TECHNOLOGY

Is Safaricom Being Greedy By Launching Services to Compete With Start-ups?

By now you must have heard or read about Safaricom’s new product Lipa Kodi na Mpesa. When the news came out, there were collective mourns by a number of people…

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TECHNOLOGY

Nigeria Saved N119 Billion with ICT Use

Nigeria saved 119 billion Niara by using technology to improve service delivery. The country which is ranked 113 out of 144 in World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Network Readiness Index (NRI) ,…

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TECHNOLOGY

Blocking unwanted ads is costing online businesses

There is a trend that is on the rise, a trend that will hit hard on websites that offer free content with hope to reap from online advertisements. The use…

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