Mon, April 30th, 12:40 · Elly Okutoyi
In one of the rarest partnerships among stiff competitors, Kenya’s Safaricom and Airtel are set to lay a multi-million shilling fiber network, in a bid to reduce expenses incurred in paying third party companies for wholesale internet. → Read more
Fri, April 27th, 12:03 · Elly Okutoyi
Kenya has dropped in world ICT ranking by 14 places to position 93 following this year’s survey by World Economic Forum and INSEAD School of Business. → Read more
Thu, April 26th, 15:32 · Elly Okutoyi
Following MobApplic’s findings on the issues affecting Kenyan health care system, the mobile application developer has developed three applications in response, including M-Patient, M-Aware and M-Rx. → Read more
Mon, April 23rd, 10:10 · Elly Okutoyi
Application developers and mobile service providers in Africa have neglected the health sectors, according to the continents major health service providers and mobile developers. → Read more
Fri, April 20th, 14:26 · Elly Okutoyi
The information gap between African businesses and the customers, a trend caused by high advertising costs, could be reduced significantly if the companies embrace blogging and form partnership with bloggers. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 13:23 · Elly Okutoyi
Mobile money leads to outsourcing development of key financial systems without looking at the inherent risks responsible for increased internal fraud cases, top mobile money service providers say. → Read more
Mon, April 16th, 16:00 · Elly Okutoyi
Internet users including East African businesses can now sigh with relief following Telkom Kenya’s announcement last week of the region’s fourth undersea fibre optic player. → Read more
Mon, April 16th, 08:53 · Elly Okutoyi
Medisoft East Africa Ltd has come up with a teleworking health solution named Teleradiology that enables medical specialists to read radiology results and give their opinions remotely. → Read more
Fri, April 13th, 12:51 · Elly Okutoyi
A Kenyan startup has developed a fully automated system dubbed M-Pepea set to revolutionize country’s credit system by offering instant loans to workers at a fee via their mobile phones. → Read more
Wed, April 11th, 08:01 · Elly Okutoyi
For as little as US$5, lovers of African movies can now watch a variety of the films online thanks to African Film Library (AFL), an initiative started by South Africa’s M-Net to bring African films online. → Read more
Tue, April 10th, 15:21 · Elly Okutoyi
A Ghanaian startup has come with a web-messaging platform dubbed Dropifi that will see a shift in the way companies handle their contact page thus allowing, easy communication with prospective customers. → Read more
Mon, April 2nd, 15:19 · Elly Okutoyi
6ix Degrees, a Kenyan start up, has come up with a mobile phone application that allows for phonebook contact backup. The application also allows users to restore the contacts in case of loss. → Read more
Sat, March 31st, 17:10 · Elly Okutoyi
The second edition of Pivot25 is set to take place on 5th and 6th June 2012, in Nairobi Kenya. → Read more
Fri, March 30th, 10:30 · Elly Okutoyi
M-changa, a Kenyan Startup, has come up with a fundraising solution that uses mobile phones to fast-track and make fundraising drives more manageable. → Read more
Tue, March 27th, 13:16 · Elly Okutoyi
The word monitoring sends a chilling effect in the spines of many people, especially concerning their privacy. This is what Internet users in Kenya will be dealing with, after Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) announced last week of its plans to monitor Internet activity in a bid to fight rising cases of cyber crime in the country. → Read more
Wed, March 21st, 10:29 · Elly Okutoyi
The world’s giant in social networking service, Facebook, is launching mobile advertisements soon. This is an effort to tap into its more than 425 million user market worldwide, who log into Facebook from a mobile device. This figure represents more than half if the company’s worldwide users. → Read more
Tue, March 20th, 13:05 · Elly Okutoyi
Google’s social networking site Google+ has slowly but steadily been experiencing a growth in its user base, with over 90 million users worldwide as by January 2012. This is can be termed as a very small figure, as compared to Facebook’s 800 million and Twitter’s 500 million users worldwide. → Read more
Fri, March 16th, 07:43 · Elly Okutoyi
The number of websites being hacked to in Africa has been increasing at an alarming rate. The question that everyone is asking themselves is; where has Africa gone wrong when it comes to cyber security? This trend very worrying, since most transactions are now moving onto online platforms. → Read more
Wed, March 14th, 12:47 · Elly Okutoyi
Netpage from Gambia launched its 4G device last week, which had gone into sales even before the official launch. Netpage said its towers can carry 40 times more bandwidth than the normal 3G networks. → Read more
Tue, March 13th, 08:34 · Elly Okutoyi
Have you ever received an international call, whose quality was very poor, a lot of delays, and most importantly, the number calling you appeared as a local call instead of the international format? Well, you might as well as been a victim of SIM box Fraud. → Read more
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