Articles by Nick Sato, Page 4
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Mon, December 16th, 10:00 · Nick Sato
Shutterstock goes Android
Shutterstock, a leading provider of commercial digital imagery including licenced photographs, vectors, illustrations and videos, has announced the launch of an Android mobile app. → Read more
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Thu, December 12th, 06:00 · Nick Sato
Kenya’s energy ministry launches journalism awards
Kenya’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has launched its Journalism Excellence Awards (EJEA), aimed at promoting accurate and comprehensive coverage of energy matters in the country. → Read more
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Wed, December 11th, 15:30 · Nick Sato
Kenyatta unveils Nairobi CCTV command centre
Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto has officially opened Nairobi’s new command centre that will coordinate traffic operations and crime management using CCTV cameras. → Read more
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Wed, December 11th, 13:00 · Nick Sato
UBA partners MTN Uganda for money transfer service
Uganda’s United Bank for Africa (UBA) has partnered with MTN to become the country’s first mobile money agent in the financial services industry. → Read more
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Wed, December 11th, 11:30 · Nick Sato
Ugandans transferred $640m using mobile money in 2013
The Bank of Uganda (BOU) has revealed its financial report for January to November 2013 shows mobile money transfers in the country reached US$640 million. → Read more
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Wed, December 11th, 09:30 · Nick Sato
Kenya suspends digital migration date
Kenya’s High Court has issued a ruling temporarily suspending Nairobi’s planned digital migration from analogue broadcasting to December 23, 2013, to allow the determination of a suit filed by three media houses challenging the migration. → Read more
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Wed, December 11th, 08:00 · Nick Sato
Google launches DIY Street View
Google has launched a new Google Maps feature that lets users create and share their own Street View paths from photos and location data. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 16:30 · Nick Sato
91% of organisations hit by cyberattacks in 2013
Research by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International has shown that 91 per cent of organisations globally experienced cyberattacks at least once in the last year, with nine per cent victims of targeted attacks. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 13:00 · Nick Sato
Kenyan government launches bandwidth service for universities
The Kenyan government through the ICT Authority and the Kenya Education Network Trust (KENET) has officially launched the KENET Network, a US$22.5 million basic internet bandwidth service that connects member institutions at competitive and sustainable prices. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 10:30 · Nick Sato
Mobile money use in Kenya double that of commercial banks
More than twice the amount of Kenyans use mobile money services than commercial banks, according to a new study. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 06:00 · Nick Sato
Kenya’s Kiss TV relaunches
Kenyan free-to-air entertainment television channel Kiss TV has relaunched, four months after it shut down most of its broadcasting departments after a series of losses. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 17:30 · Nick Sato
Kenyan court orders submissions over digital migration case
Kenya’s High Court has ordered the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), the attorney general and all interested parties to file their submissions as soon as possible as to why they are opposed to the constitution of a three-judge bench that is set to hear a petition against them by media companies. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 16:00 · Nick Sato
Kenya in partnership with South Korea to improve ICT sector
The Kenyan and South Korean governments have announced a partnership to develop an e-government masterplan in Kenya, looking to develop ICT to stimulate socio-economic development in the country. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 13:00 · Nick Sato
Barclays Bank of Kenya launches money transfer service
Barclays Bank of Kenya has unveiled a new cardless money transfer service that allows customers to send and receive money at any Barclays ATM. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 11:30 · Nick Sato
GOtv, K24 in partnership to provide free decoders
Kenyan pay-TV company GOtv and K24 have launched a digital migration partnership that will mean K24 viewers are rewarded with decoders daily in a bid to cushion its viewers ahead of the analogue switch-off . → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 10:00 · Nick Sato
Airtel bags Africa operator of the year 2013
Bharti Airtel, a telecommunications service provider with operations in over 20 countries across South Asia and Africa, has won this year’s Africa operator of the year awards at CommsMEA Awards gala dinner, held in Dubai. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 08:00 · Nick Sato
Kenyan companies urged to test IT products and solutions before going live
Kenyan companies have been urged to ensure their products and solutions meet the quality analysis test before unveiling them to the market by following new application development methodologies and working with software testing firms. → Read more
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Mon, December 9th, 06:00 · Nick Sato
Tanzania declares Vodacom 2013 Employer of the Year
Vodacom Tanzania has been declared by the Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) the 2013 Employer of the Year. → Read more
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Fri, December 6th, 19:00 · Nick Sato
Startups pitch for investment at Nairobi Demo Day
Startups pitched to local and foreign investors at the 88mph Nairobi Demo Day event yesterday (Thursday), with some making a commitment to invest. → Read more
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Fri, December 6th, 08:30 · Nick Sato
Intel Kenya showcases future in technology innovations
Intel hosted chief information officers (CIOs) from the Kenyan IT ecosystem last week, in a bid to shed light on how the company is preparing the country’s enterprise market to fit into the future of dynamic IT and shared its next generation technology vision to its partners. → Read more
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