Articles by Kamau Mbote

Articles by Kamau Mbote, Page 40

Wed, November 14th, 12:42 · Kamau Mbote

MultiChoice extends free DStv access to Kenyan schools

DStv Satellite Television services provider MultiChoice Kenya will establish 25 resource centres in public schools in 2012, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 150. The company hopes this will ease access to educational material in Kenya. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 12:32 · Kamau Mbote

Online advertising yet to catch up in Kenya

Kenya’s advertising revenue grew exponentially over the past decade from 3.2 billion shillings in 1999 to 49.2 billion in 2009, fuelled by a fragmented audience in the country created particularly by vernacular radio station, a study by research firm Ipsos Synovate indicates. → Read more
Wed, November 14th, 09:08 · Kamau Mbote

42 slain policemen to be honoured via social media

Social media users in Kenya will today at 1p.m. (Kenyan time) honour 42 policemen who were last weekend slain in Baragoi’s Suguta valley, after the government failed to fly flags countrywide at half-mast. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 12:50 · Kamau Mbote

Antivirus innovator being sought for murder

The founder of McAfee antivirus John McAfee, 67, is a wanted man in Belize for the murder of an American expatriate on Saturday night. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 12:20 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan mobile users more interested in Androids than iPhones

Smartphone users in Kenya are seemingly less attracted to Apple’s iPhones, survey of Internet search trends reveals. → Read more
Tue, November 13th, 08:37 · Kamau Mbote

AccessKenya to invest 120 million shillings to enhance corporate connectivity

AccessKenya, a leading Internet services provider (ISP) in Kenya, has said it will in 2013 inject KSh120 million ($1.17 million) into fiber-optic infrastructure expansion across the country, as it targets more corporate and high-end customers with fixed Internet connections. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 13:44 · Kamau Mbote

Opinion: Focus on Kenya – Raila, Uhuru, Ruto dominate Internet

Looking at Internet searches in the last 3 months to the U.S general election, steady dominance by the overall winner Barack Obama compared to few for Mitt Romney pointed to the relevance of searches in indicating political superiority. With this in mind, my focus shifts to Kenya just 3 months before the general elections. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 12:09 · Kamau Mbote

Is Safaricom finally winning the price war?

Intergrated telecommunications giant Safaricom posted a 113 percent growth in its pre-tax profit largely attributed to the company’s upward revision on its calling charges. → Read more
Mon, November 12th, 08:00 · Kamau Mbote

Aviation industry to establish cyber security force

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has announced its intention to have an aviation cyber security force created, as the industry’s technology systems remain vulnerable. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 12:31 · Kamau Mbote

Online piracy on the decrease

There is increased use of legitimately acquired data globally, with streaming service providers such as Netflix helping tackle the illegal P2P file sharing promoted by services such as BitTorrent that allow users running software that utilize peer 2 peer protocol to share data, according to a new report by Sandvine. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 10:06 · Kamau Mbote

Constable to be charged for instigating officers’ go slow via social media

A police officer in Kenya accused of using the social media to incite the law enforcement to a go-slow is due to be arraigned in court Friday morning. → Read more
Fri, November 9th, 07:42 · Kamau Mbote

Majority of CEO’s lacking necessary ICT expertise for investment

Majority of chief executive officers especially in the developing countries lack the necessary background to make informed decisions, experts from Google said yesterday. → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 12:02 · Kamau Mbote

Drop in talk time sends Kenya’s telecom sector to drawing board

Kenya’s mobile telephony voice traffic reduced in the period between April and June 2012 by 6.9 percent to record 6.3 billion minutes, as compared to 6.8 billion minutes in the previous quarter, according to the fourth quarter telecommunications report by the industry regulator Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). → Read more
Thu, November 8th, 08:27 · Kamau Mbote

US Quarter 3 retail e-Commerce up 15% than year ago

Online retail spending soared to $41.9 billion compared to the same period last year, the twelfth consecutive quarter year on year growth, a study by comScore reveals. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:27 · Kamau Mbote

Kaspersky Lab named best anti-malware vendor

Kaspersky Lab is now the world’s leading anti-malware vendor, a survey carried out by Info-tech research group shows. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:46 · Kamau Mbote

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 to help you find Wi-Fi

Software giant Microsoft has received a license from Wi-Fi software vendor Devicescape allowing it to access a database hosting 11 million hotspots -- 1 percent of global hotspots -- and to provide its Windows Phone 8 OS users with the locations to find the Net. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 09:05 · Kamau Mbote

Google event to sharpen business, tech entrepreneurs’ skills

Over 500 key players from various sectors including ICT, publishing, advertising as well as Swahili linguists are held up at the Think With Google event in Kenya’s capital Nairobi discussing the role of technology in the country’s growing economy. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 11:53 · Kamau Mbote

Retrogressive laws inhibiting Ethiopian Internet penetration

In the last one decade, Ethiopia has experienced the least Internet growth in Africa, statistics from Internetworldstats.com shows. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 07:28 · Kamau Mbote

Coca-Cola silent despite hacking ahead of acquisition

A group of Chinese hackers over three years ago reportedly penetrated Coca Cola’s computer systems ahead of its $2.4 billion acquisition of Chinese beverage company China Huiyan Juice Co., even as the takeover deal collapsed three days later. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 12:22 · Kamau Mbote

Publishers across the globe in arms against Google News

More And more publishers around the world are joining hands to fight search engine and apps giant Google, accusing it of “eating into their revenues”. Already, over 150 newspapers in Brazil have pulled out of Google while punishing legislation is underway in France and Germany. → Read more