Articles by Vincent Matinde

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Fri, April 20th, 15:57 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya unveils e-health

The Kenyan government has shown yet another move in efforts to use the ICT industry to push for service delivery in key sectors following the launching of e-health yesterday in Nairobi. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 13:27 · Vincent Matinde

ForgetMeNot and Econet Wireless launch SMS service in Burundi

Burundi’s Econet Wireless and Zimbabwe’s ForgetMeNot Africa companies have announced a new SMS service called ‘eco-msg‘ set to give any mobile phone access to Internet services. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 11:49 · Vincent Matinde

Google Does More with Maps and Graphs in Kenya

Google has improved the content on Kenya’s Open Date initiative allowing over 31,000 primary and 6,900 secondary schools to be searchable via Google Maps for Kenya. → Read more
Thu, April 19th, 11:04 · Vincent Matinde

Africa’s first ever puppet satire TV show introduces online TV

Buni Media, the production team behind Kenya’s first ever satire TV program yesterday launched an online TV called Buni TV set to show exclusively innovative and visually arresting Pan-African content. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 15:33 · Vincent Matinde

Google+ redesigns as competition hots up

For Google+ enthusiasts, the social site redesigned its pages last week. The new look is aimed at giving an easier user experience, says Google. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 15:30 · Vincent Matinde

E-learning site to fill in for syllabus flaws

BriteSkills, a Kenyan startup, aims to enable students and interested learners to acquire and share new skills anytime anywhere through lessons shared by specialists in a domain field. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 15:20 · Vincent Matinde

Africa Web space stirred by SA’s newly unveiled mimiboard

Mimiboard, South Africa’s digital equivalent of a community noticeboard, has sparked an interest in the African Web space with top sites including Capitalfm.co.ke already integrating its services one month after launching. → Read more
Wed, April 18th, 10:10 · Vincent Matinde

More African Celebrities taking to Google+

Google’s report indicates that more and more African artistes are trooping to social networking sites to launch their latest videos and singles online. → Read more
Tue, April 17th, 14:41 · Vincent Matinde

Orange Kenya to launch country’s first 3G Wi-Fi Device

Orange Kenya, one of the East Africa’s leading telecom companies could launch the country’s first ever 3G Wi-Fi router before the end of the year. → Read more
Fri, April 13th, 13:02 · Vincent Matinde

Goodbuzz’s intent could set high advertising standards for Africa

A social media-marketing tool that expects to reach out its influence in Africa once it establishes headquarters in Kenya has vowed to change the continent’s online marketing trends by replicating its model for success in UK. → Read more
Thu, April 12th, 10:20 · Vincent Matinde

Twinpine considers East African presence

Twinpine, Nigerian phone-based advertising network, is at present assembling a remarkable list of East African clients following an expansion to Nairobi, Kenya, late last month. → Read more
Thu, April 12th, 10:15 · Vincent Matinde

Google’s nod braces South African arts up for global scenery

Google has announced inclusion of South African rock paintings in its Google Art Project, an online product set to allow users to view works of art from across the world. → Read more
Wed, April 11th, 11:52 · Vincent Matinde

!WayTag in a rare opportunity to showcase at TNW conference

The company, accredited for its online product named !WayTag, an application that lets people share their location using GPS coordinates, will have a chance to attract worldwide media interests, heavyweight business investors, developers, entrepreneurs, tech companies and social media strategists in one of the world’s major Web and mobile conference. → Read more
Wed, April 11th, 10:44 · Vincent Matinde

After Successful Kenyan stint, NikoHapa now eyes more African Frontiers

After a signup of an estimated 4,000 users and 70 businesses within a span of just eight months, NikoHapa, a Kenyan phone-based customer-loyalty card is now focusing on frontier markets in Nigeria and Uganda. → Read more
Mon, April 9th, 14:05 · Vincent Matinde

Hotels.com.ng wants to bring all hotels in Nigeria online

Hotels in Nigeria have gotten a boost. A new company is offering an opportunity for hotels in Nigeria to put their information online. And this trend is catching on quite fast. Hotels.com.ng is the site that wants to bring all hotels in Nigeria, online. → Read more
Fri, April 6th, 14:31 · Vincent Matinde

$55.1 million grant a boost to Kenyan ICT, says World Bank

The World Bank has served Kenya a grant of US$55.1 million (Ksh4 billion) to scale up the sprawling mobile and web development sector. → Read more
Mon, April 2nd, 10:51 · Vincent Matinde

!WayTag Lets You Share Your Location

Location based services are becoming quite the norm in the IT sector. Services like Foursquare and Facebook Places have picked up in recent years. !WayTag, a South African company has its aim set on being one of the big players in location based service. → Read more
Thu, March 29th, 08:41 · Vincent Matinde

ForgetMeNot: Bringing Internet to the Data-less

Internet penetration in Africa has not been as fast as expected. In rural Africa, internet connectivity still becomes a dream. Telecommunication companies in Africa including Safaricom and Yu have in the recent past tried to get non-data means of reaching their subscribers. One company behind the successes of dataless internet is Zimbabwe/UK company ForgetMeNot Africa. → Read more
Wed, March 28th, 14:10 · Vincent Matinde

Obami Aims to Make Education Social

The success of social media in Africa has led many to opt to start one. The power that lies beneath engaging users at a social level, still remains the reason why giants like Facebook and Google+ will dominate the social scene. Obami, an educational social network in South Africa, aims to harness the power of social media and deliver much needed relationship between teachers and students, online. → Read more
Mon, March 26th, 16:51 · Vincent Matinde

Whive.com: Kenyan SMS Based Social Network

When they started in 2008, they expected to be one of the driving forces in social networking in Kenya. But with the Facebook wave growing at the time, they had to change their tact: swim or sink. Now Whive.com has over 100,000 users and growing. → Read more