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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, 07:38 · Vincent Matinde

Hardware innovation the next frontier in Kenya’s ICT sector

Kenya has covered quite some strides in terms of software developments, typically mobile-based apps. Hardware developments however fail to replicate the trend, although this is bound to change. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 13:05 · Nanine Steenkamp

Kenya’s 2-yeard-old startup MoDe keen on global expansion

Kenya’s Mobile Decisioning (MoDe), an emergency prepaid airtime startup, has announced plans to expand across Europe and South America. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 12:00 · Gythan Munga

Chris Rock’s video on Obama a sensation in Africa

Stand up comedian Chris Rock’s video message recorded for the Jimmy Kimmel Live show is currently trending in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria on Youtube. → 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
Wed, November 7th, 07:08 · Gythan Munga

Swedish game maker Mojang to launch urbanization tool in Nairobi

Swedish Indie game maker Mojang in partnership with the UN-Habitat will today at the iHub, a coworking space and business incubator, in Kenya's capital Nairobi unveil a new gaming tool dubbed Block by Block, targeted at mobilizing the youth to participate in urbanization. → Read more
Wed, November 7th, 07:07 · Vincent Matinde

OPINION: Hard copy book publishing on its deathbed in Africa

Book publishing could soon become "a nostalgic process" rather than a main business process, just like producing mix tapes in a CD-ROM world. → Read more
Tue, November 6th, 13:09 · Nanine Steenkamp

Kenyan MoDe wins IBM award

Kenya’s Mobile Decisioning (MoDe), a mobile nano credit startup, is this year’s overall winner of the IBM Africa SmartCamp contest at Tech4Africa. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 11:49 · Vincent Matinde

New audio service streams top Kenyan Music Awards

Waabeh, a new audio streaming service, made a splash entry to the market with the streaming of the tenth edition of the Kisima Awards held on November 2. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 10:50 · Kamau Mbote

Kenyan government’s treasury resource management headed for automation

Kenya’s government has issued bids for the setting up of the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) communication agency under the Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure Project, hoped to ensure planning, budgeting, procurement, payments and revenue receipting are automated. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 09:29 · Gythan Munga

Kabarak University debuts its Android bootcamp for Nakuru County

Kabarak University, in underlining the important role of ICT, held its first Android mobile boot camp for Nakuru County on Nov 1 to 3, 2012 under the theme “Innovation & Solutions through Mobile“. → Read more
Mon, November 5th, 09:22 · Kamau Mbote

Nairobi and Mombasa now big Wi-Fi hotspots

Internet users in Kenya’s Nairobi and Mombasa cities can now enjoy Wi-Fi Internet connection free of interruptions following the roll out of Wazi Wi-Fi initiative by search engine giant Google. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 12:45 · Tom Jackson

CCK grants licenses to new set-top box dealers

The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has given licenses to 54 new digital decoder dealers in a bid to create competition and cut the prices of set-top boxes as the company seeks to meet the digital switchover deadline. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 10:00 · Tom Jackson

Kenya rolls out ICT departments in rural schools

The Kenyan government has launched an ICT programme in rural schools in an effort to facilitate easy learning of ICTs, enhance competitiveness in the job market and meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on education. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 08:54 · Kamau Mbote

Kenya proves might in ICT use in East Africa’s universities survey

Six Kenyan universities have scooped top ten slots in ICT usage in a survey of ICT use in 100 East African institutions of higher learning, a report released yesterday reveals. → Read more
Fri, November 2nd, 06:32 · Gythan Munga

Kenyan daily deals website pinning to make sales

Zetu Deals, a Kenyan daily deals website, is one the country's first businesses to have endorsed Pinterest, which uses standard social networking features to share content by pinning images, videos and other objects on its user interface known as Pinboards, for a monthly discount fair. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 12:24 · Kamau Mbote

REVIEW: Exploring E-commerce Kenyan style

Kenyan e-commerce exhibits how social media has opened up opportunities for the youth in the country, and how access to the Internet can uplift the population. The names Soko Kuu and Soko Nyeusi may not resound as much as eBay, but to some 34,200 Facebook users, mostly in Kenya, they are the local equivalent. → Read more
Thu, November 1st, 09:59 · Tefo Mohapi

Is M-Pesa really Kenyan or British?

Hailed as the “Kenyan technology success story”, many have claimed M-Pesa to be testimony to the greatness of the East African country’s technology scene, producing world-class technology companies that rival those in South Africa. But, is the acclaimed mobile money service really Kenyan at all? → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 13:28 · Elly Okutoyi

Nokia partners with Kenya’s government to encourage creation of social apps

Finnish mobile phone-maker Nokia has partnered with the Government of Kenya through the Kenya ICT Board to work towards ensuring tech startups specialising in agricultural, health and educational apps benefit from technical and monetary support. → Read more
Wed, October 31st, 09:52 · HumanIPO

The HumanIPO Debate: Does Kenya need Konza Tech City?

In the second installment of the HumanIPO debate series, where reporters and guest writers debate important issues within the African tech sector and invite readers to join in the discussion on Twitter and Facebook, we discuss the positives and negatives of the multi-billion shilling Konza Tech City project. → Read more