TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY

Workshop-Demystifying Social Media for Business

When comes to social media in Kenya, many businesses are still on the dark. Well here is something for you Workshop on Demystifying Social Media for Business When: June 22nd…

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TECHNOLOGY

Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos Review

Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos can not really be called budget smartphone in Kenya although in some parts of the world it is. The price range is around Ksh.20k.  It…

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STARTUPS TECHNOLOGY

Samsung Kenya is Ready to Support Local Startups developing for Android Platform

Samsung Electronics, has reiterated its corporate plans to support local Mobile Web Application developers to access the global market. Samsung will provide support to local developers deploying their applications on…

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TECHNOLOGY

Mobile payment and Banking system- The case of “Kenyan success ” vs Disappointment in Haiti

I  have followed closely how the aid agencies including US Government and and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have struggled to get the mobile money ticking in Haiti in…

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TECHNOLOGY

StarTimes- The new PayTv Launched in Kenya

Here comes competition for both Zuku and Dstv. The paytv space in Kenya has gotten a new entrance in the name of StarTimes. StarTimes Media announced the launch of its…

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TECHNOLOGY

Ugandans on Twitter outraged by Spain Prime Minister’s SMS to Finance Minister..

Ugandans on Twitter reacted angrily to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy after he reportedly texeted the Finance Minister “We’re the number four power in Europe, Spain is not Uganda”. It…

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TECHNOLOGY

AccessKenya Group to issue and list additional 10 million ordinary shares

Capital Markets Authority has approved AccessKenya’s Bonus Share issue to shareholders. The approval will enable the Group to issue and list an additional 10,382,785 ordinary shares of a par value…

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TECHNOLOGY

Google Student Africa Summit Kicks off Today

The Google Student Africa Summit starts today in Nairobi to 13th June at Chandaria Auditorium, Visa Oshwal, Westlands for 3 days of learning, creativity, networking. The summit will bring together…

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TECHNOLOGY

Windows Azure Officially Launched in Kenya

Microsoft yesterday officially launched Windows Azure Platform in Kenya. Windows Azure is Microsoft cloud computing platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers.  But there…

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TECHNOLOGY

XYZ Show Season 6 Back on KissTV

It seems  XYZ is coming back reloaded with Season 6. The popular political satire program returns on June 10th at 9pm on Kiss TV for 6thseason. The show will then…

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TECHNOLOGY

Pivot East 2012 and the Winner Is: Ma3Racer (KE)

And the overall winner of Pivot East 2012 is Ma3Racer (KE)… Ma3Racer is a racing game set on the busy Nairobi highways. It is the first in a series of…

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TECHNOLOGY

Savannah Fund – An accelerator program designed to help emerging entrepreneurs Launched

One of the most discussed topics around Africa is how hard it is  to get a VC firm  to invest on the new and early stage Startup/s. The issue is…

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TECHNOLOGY

StorySpaces Disqualified from Pivot East Competition

Just in is the news that Storyspaces is disqualified from the Pivot East Competition. According the Pivot East blog, they had no idea  how deeply engaged the founder of Kuyu…

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TECHNOLOGY

Ipv6 Launch Day- The only way to fix the broken Internet

Today, the June 6th is ipv6 World launch day and I have been impressed with the number of companies in Kenya which have taken the lead to migrate from ipv4…

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TECHNOLOGY

DotAfrica partners with AfriNIC to drive technical training and policy discussions

UniForum SA, the organisation selected by the African Union to run the DotAfrica Top Level Domain registry has partnered with AfriNIC to support training and policy discussions within Africa’s tech…

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TECHNOLOGY

Safaricom SDP to be available in A week’s time

As we have said many times before, Telcos need to do more to help with growth of ICT sector. The good news is Safaricom has announced that their SDP will…

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TECHNOLOGY

Epson opens Regional Office in Nairobi and intends to launch over 140 new products

Epson known for printers and scanners is making the long overdue entrance to Kenyan market.  Epson is already in the process of establishing an office in Nairobi. The office will…

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TECHNOLOGY

Mfarm and Samsung Kenya to Launch M-Farm price application

Mfarm limited, an award winning software solutions and agribusiness company  is to launch M-Farm price application in partnership with Samsung.  The app  is available on both Android and Samsung’s Bada…

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TECHNOLOGY

Rwanda is the only country in the world that does not manage its own top-level domain

Yeah, Rwanda a country determined to become the regional ICT hub by 2020, is the only country in the world that does not  manage its own top-level domain.  Rwanda’s country-code…

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TECHNOLOGY

Pivot East 2012 Part2- Mobile Society Category Finalists

Pivot East regional mobile apps. developer competition which will culminate in a pitching conference on 5th and 6th June 2012. The competition has five categories with each having  finalists pitching to…

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TECHNOLOGY

Google Translate now allows website owners and visitors to improve translated text

You probably have used Google Translate, a tool which has the ability to amaze you and frustrate you at the same measure. Sometime the translation is right but the order…

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TECHNOLOGY

The Creativez Meetup This Sunday at iHub– “Intellectual Property”

Here comes an event which we highly  recommend that you all attend “The Creativez Meet-up – Intellectual Property” taking place this Sunday 3rd June from 14h00 to 17h00 at iHub.

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TECHNOLOGY

Pivot East 2012 Part1: Business and Resource Category Finalists

So Pivot East is around the corner and I have been going through the final list of those who will pitch for their ideas. I will profile each of the…

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TECHNOLOGY

NEPTUNE Advanced Subsea Flow Assurance Insulation System

I have no idea how subsea oil production works but with me is the news that Dow Oil & Gas has launched the NEPTUNE™ Advanced Subsea Flow Assurance Insulation System. …

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TECHNOLOGY

Airtel to invest USD 100 million in Rwanda

Airtel was awarded a license by the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) late last year to operate 2G and 3G GSM mobile services in Rwanda.  And now it plans to …

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TECHNOLOGY

The reasons why it is time to dump dumb phones and develop for Smartphones

Recently I came to the conclusion that we should be realistic when talking about innovation in Kenya, and I blogged about the problem of developing for feature phones. Yesterday ,…

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TECHNOLOGY

Paysure Online Payment System

Paysure Limited in partnership with Kenswitch and Chase Bank today launched online payments platform. Paysure Limited one of the recipients of the 2012/2013 Tandaa Kenya grant developed a web application…

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TECHNOLOGY

Orange announced second edition of its Orange African Social Venture Prize

Orange has today announced the launch of the second edition of its Orange African Social Venture Prize whose goal is to promote social innovation that supports development through Information and…

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TECHNOLOGY

Paysure Limited to Launch local internet payments platform

Paysure is local start-up that has developed a internet payments service that will tap into the growing need for secure and flexible online payment solutions. Paysure Limited is to launch…

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TECHNOLOGY

VC4Africa to Hold Nairobi Meet-up

VC4Africa, Africa’s largest entrepreneur and investor network this Thursday 31 May hold its second meet-up in Nairobi at the Hilton Hotel’s Jockey Pub from 7.00PM till 10.00PM. The event is…

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