Articles by Gythan Munga

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Thu, February 16th, 13:21 · Gythan Munga

Vodacom Smart Tab Launched in South Africa

Vodacom, South Africa’s 1st cellular network, quietly launched a range of 7 and 10 inch screen tablets to be used with the mobile operator’s contract and pre-paid plans. → Read more
Thu, February 16th, 10:28 · Gythan Munga

134 Million African Internet Users in a Decade

A decade ago, the number of African Internet users stood at 4.5 million. Today the figure has risen close to 140 million users which is a 2 988.4% growth according to a research by the Internet World Stats. → Read more
Mon, February 13th, 09:59 · Gythan Munga

iCow Introduced Livestock Trading on Mobile

ICow, the winning application in the Apps for Africa Competition in 2010 introduced a new feature the iCow Soko, allowing small- scale dairy farmers to trade livestock on their mobile phones in Kenya. → Read more
Fri, February 10th, 21:31 · Gythan Munga

Kenyan Businesses Going Online with Payment Aggregators

Just 8 years ago in Kenya, online businesses had to contend with international payment and money transfer services such as Paypal that offered little or no option of withdrawing money locally. Today, the invent of mobile money has businesses using the mobile payment to transact online via payment gateways. → Read more
Tue, February 7th, 12:34 · Gythan Munga

Way-C: New African Tablet Goes on Sale

Apple’s iPad just got rivaled in the African market after the launch of Way-C, an Android tablet which came on sale last week in Congo. The African tablet is currently sold in Airtel stores in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire at $300. → Read more
Fri, January 27th, 10:52 · Gythan Munga

Top Tweeters in Africa Revealed

According to results of recent study “How Africa Tweets”, South Africans are by far the most active tweeters of the continent (5.3 mill tweets in Q4), followed by Kenya (2,476,800) Nigeria (1,646,212), Egypt (1,214,062) and Morocco (745,620) in the top five. → Read more
Tue, January 24th, 17:14 · Gythan Munga

InMobi Pursues Mobile Advertising in Africa

InMobi, largest independent mobile advertising network with offices on 4 continents, is pushing its mobile and web content advertising in Africa. → Read more
Tue, January 24th, 14:44 · Gythan Munga

Tech-In-Education Focusing on Kids in Nigeria

You hardly find a tech event focused on improving learning of technology in primary and secondary schools in Africa without the agenda being to only equip the kids with computers and laptops. → Read more
Sun, January 22nd, 20:26 · Gythan Munga

Professional Certification for Kenyan Developers

Kenyan developers will help test drive an initiative by Computer Scientists at the Carnegie Mellon University that aims at formulating a professional certification for Software Developers. → Read more
Sun, January 22nd, 20:08 · Gythan Munga

Facebook Launches 60 Timeline Apps

Facebook announced in a recent press conference the integration of 60 apps to the timeline. They also hinted at allowing developers to build applications that enable users to add just about anything to their timelines. → Read more
Fri, January 20th, 10:06 · Gythan Munga

Kenyans Now Dialing Doctor Services 24h

Kenyans can now receive medical advice from qualified health professionals by dialing a service from their Safaricom line. → Read more
Thu, January 19th, 14:55 · Gythan Munga

Afghanistan Emulating Africa with M-Paisa

War infested third world country Afghanistan in 2008 became the first country after Kenya to launch mobile money transfer service in the country. The service, dubbed M-Paisa, was initially adopted as a service for the Afghan police force to pay salaries securely via mobile rather than in cash. → Read more
Thu, January 19th, 14:23 · Gythan Munga

103 Kenyan Government Websites Hacked

Hacking is a malicious practice that comes to no good involved parties. At best, you can only hope that a hacker is some guy just trying to prove his expertise rather than one trying access and destroy your data. → Read more
Tue, January 17th, 16:50 · Gythan Munga

Kenyan E-Commerce Site Accepting Installments

Ravenzo is an online shopping website launched in November 2008 where Kenyan consumers can purchase laptops, computers, accessories and gadgets at an affordable price. They deal in brands that include HP, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung, Acer, APC, Mecer, Epson, Canon, Microsoft, Kaspersky and many more. → Read more
Tue, January 17th, 15:43 · Gythan Munga

Mobile Web East Africa Returns to Nairobi

Mobile Web East Africa 2012 (#MWEA2012) is part of a series of Mobile technology events that include Mobile Web Africa 2009, 2010 and 2011, Mobile Web West Africa 2011 and Mobile Entertainment Africa 2011. → Read more
Tue, January 17th, 15:36 · Gythan Munga

New Android Africa Challenge with Courses Competition

The Africa Android Challenge (AAC) is an opportunity to discover the best developers and Android experts on the African continent. The contestants have an opportunity to create innovative applications and produce local "African" content. In addition, they can submit lectures related to Android on the Android Platform via the Google University Consortium Program. → Read more
Tue, January 17th, 13:10 · Gythan Munga

Wikipedia Blacks Out in Protest of Internet Censorship

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced through a tweet today that Wikipedia’s English Version would on Wednesday, 18th January go offline for 24hrs in Protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). → Read more
Tue, January 17th, 12:32 · Gythan Munga

Gathering of African Tech Entreprenuers in Kampala

The African Gathering is an annual conference that brings together thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs who inspire development in technology, health, social networking and good governance in the African Continent. → Read more
Mon, January 16th, 14:31 · Gythan Munga

Kenyan Football Site Futaa Redesigned

Futaa.com, a football website in Kenya covering local leagues and live score updates yesterday unveiled a new website design that enhances the look and readability of news content on the site. → Read more
Mon, January 16th, 13:29 · Gythan Munga

Android App Monitoring M-PESA Transactions

Android users can now download an app from the Android market that lets them track their MPESA transactions from one location. M-Pesa is an award winning mobile money transfer service launched in Kenya, Tanzania and Afghanistan. In Kenya alone, the service had over 16 million subscribers as of November last year. → Read more