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M-Pesa users will interact with ATM based service on PesaPoint ATMS very soon

M-Pesa users will interact with ATM based service on PesaPoint ATMS very soon

Thanks to an arrangement between Safaricom’s Mpesa product and PesaPoint, users Bank account holders will be able to interact with their bank accounts at PesaPoint ATMs. PesaPoint is close to launch the system that will enable this service to come to fruition, giving access to …

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Safaricom to venture into e-commerce, online shop to launch this month

Safaricom to venture into e-commerce, online shop to launch this month

Several of us have been wishing to get a chance to buy online, mostly electronics like phones, have a database that you can use to search for new arrivals, or whether a product is available in stock before you embark in the journey to the shops to …

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Safaricom 3G highspeed promo video and the future of Safaricom Data

Safaricom 3G highspeed promo video and the future of Safaricom Data

Safaricom recently announced the availability of 3G speeds upto 42MBps, amid alot of reaction from users after announcing at the same press conference that they have been throttling unlimited data speeds with their reasons well explained. Well, the excitement about the throttling and the eventual …

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ICT Board #Tandaa Grants Full List of Award Winners

ICT Board #Tandaa Grants Full List of Award Winners

Companies Project Title Company/Organization MTAA: A Uniquely Kenyan Mobile Game Series Afroes Company Limited ‘DISC’ – Digital Science Cloud Cyber School Technology Solutions Ltd Traffic Police And Inspection Mobile Phone Application E-Motion Technology Limited Mtracker Fomobi Solutions Onspot Stories – Mobile Audio Travel Guides Gruppo …

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Tandaa Grants Awards announcements Liveblog

11.30 #tandaa  There is a total of 30 Tandaa Grants to be awarded today  11.31 #Tandaa A total of 1.28 million dollars (ksh104,960,000) will be given out to Enterpreneutrial Kenyans 11.33 #tandaa 21 is the number of ICT Startups being awarded with a max of k …

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Safaricom discontinues Unlimited Internet Offing

Safaricom discontinues Unlimited Internet Offing

This is an announcement just made by Safaricom earlier this morning. From today midnight you wont be able to access the Safaricom unlimited data service introduced almost a year ago. This will be the case for those who wont have renewed by that time. If …

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State of the art Centre to be established in Kenya by KIE, Intel and Microsoft partnership

State of the art Centre to be established in Kenya by KIE, Intel and Microsoft partnership

A School Technology Innovation Centre will be established in a bid to advance the quality of education in Nairobi, Kenya. This follows a partnership by Intel, Microsoft and Kenya Institute of Education. This center Learning Program. The center will be dedicated to research on innovative …

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The Yellow ISP launches new website

The Yellow ISP launches new website

As an Internet Service Provider serving corporate and residential internet users, its optimal to ensure that a company serves the same connected customers on an online portal. And an interactive website is of very great importance for the image of a company. It also gives …

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PesaPoint Managing Director Richard Coate- (right) and MobiKash CEO Duncan OduorOtieno (left) sign the agreement documents at Paynet Group Offices in  Nairobi.

Mobikash joins the Pesapoint withdrawal bandwagon

Systems interoperability is one of the ways the end-user gains from adopting new technology, if its present the user can have freedom of choice and make informed decisions as to the best service that suits them. Previously we have had announcements of M-pesa and Airtel …

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Chance for Blackberry developers to win $25k worth of concert tickets

Chance for Blackberry developers to win $25k worth of concert tickets

If you’ve developed – or are currently developing – a BlackBerry® WebWorks™, Adobe® AIR®, or Native Gaming app for the BlackBerry® platform, bring your app to AppCircus at BlackBerry® 10 Jam and work with RIM experts on-site to port it to the BlackBerry 10 platform. You could win $25,000 to see your favorite bands! (Winners …

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Huawei Kenya gets a new CEO

Huawei Kenya gets a new CEO

Herman He has been Huawei Kenya CEO for a term of around five years. He has since been replaced by Mr Wind Li who moves from being the Director of Sales for the Nairobi office. Mr Li is the former MD for Huawei Zambia and …

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Nokia firing in the West, hiring in the East

Nokia firing in the West, hiring in the East

Nokia fired many workers globally last year, mostly in the west where most operations were done. That was a figure of around 3500 and 4 factories, one of them being the Cluj factory in Romania. It seems Steve Elop has plans to take operations to the …

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Nokia social auto-updates patent shows they want you to share more

Nokia social auto-updates patent shows they want you to share more

Nokia now has a patent in its wallet to have default sharing integration to most apps including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Android is one fluid OS and makes sharing so easy. Nokia must have felt the need to achieve that fluidity when they filed for …

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Doubletwist seeks to grow big, advertises for Android Software Engineers

Doubletwist seeks to grow big, advertises for Android Software Engineers

Feel like you can live up to the title Android Software Engineer at a startup? Doubletwist has an opening for the post. Call goes out to Software Engineers by training. The fact that Doubletwist is a stratup should not make you assume its a less …

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