The National University of Singapore (NUS) has collaborated with Cisco and a leading ICT provider in Singapore, NCS to build a scalable high-speed wireless network in its campuses. The network addresses the mobility needs of its students and staffs in Kent Ridge and Bukit Timah campuses. The project consists 3,200 wireless access point across both campuses. Mobile...
SSH 1.x inventor, Tatu Ylonen has been updating the secure shell standard for automated key management. An IETF draft document, “Managing SSH Keys for Automated Access – Current Recommended Practice” is already up for public review. The draft has been co-authored by Murugiah Souppaya from NIST and Greg Kent from SecureIT and will be available until...
If you thought the 2012 Galaxy S III commercials bashing the iPhone were the best, think again. Even before the Galaxy S4 goes on sale, the stage is set for the next round of media spotlight on the best that OEMs have to offer. Samsung is set to start shipping the Galaxy S4 in a few days’ time. In anticipation of the impending global release, it has released 3 ads...
Human trafficking generates more than $32 billion dollars taking a toll of over 21 million victims each year. The proceeds go into supporting conflict and repression in different parts of the world. Google is planning to spend $14.5 million dollars in fighting this vice. Today, the search giant donated $3 million to Polaris Project, Liberty Asia and La Strada International...
evriPay, a merchant account provider that has been serving the South African market has since spread it’s wings into Kenya in the quest to roll out to the whole of Africa. evriPay owned by Iveri currently only available in Kenya will soon be taking on the vibrant technology sector in Kenya and promises to deliver world class service with industry leading fraud...
In this age of mobile computing, almost everything we do is expected to occupy as little space as possible, while at the same time ensuring the essentials are catered for. The uptake of the Ultrabook as main PC is quite enough evidence of this. The average passport holder is a long sheath that covers the boarding ticket in it’s wholeness. Well, that does it’s...
The conversation about what method of digital goods works best for the Kenyan e-commerce scene goes on. There are quite many providers, local and international and there always seems to be a gap, particularly in consumption of international digital products. This situation arises mostly due to the low adoption of Credit cards in this region that makes walls where...
Microsoft has announced that the famous version of Windows from year 2001 has reached End of Life. Microsoft stopped production of Windows XP on June 30, 2008 and as of 9th April 2013 they have since announced the gradual end of support. This will be a phase of 1 year and by the end of this period they will no-longer offer support or security fixes for users. Microsoft...
Last December IBM opened a facility in Beijing to promote adoption of open source virtualization technology in the financial sector. The company is planning to do the same in New York with the KVM Center of Excellence. Interested parties will get training and hands-on experience on building enterprise KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) solutions. IBM Business Partners...
Intel announced a new generation of its Thunderbolt interface at the National Association of Broadcasters conference today. Code-named Falcon Ridge, it allows 4K video file transfer and display at the same time. The data rate has also been increased to 20 Gbps in both directions. Falcon Ridge will be compatible with previous generations of Thunderbolt cables and...
Google Play Store has been updated to version 4.0 with a new design and goes on digital distribution from today. The redesign features bigger images and items with similar themes are grouped together. Android users will also get new recommendations as they scroll down the Google Play Store page. The check-out process has been simplified and you can now purchase...
The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium has been working for 17 months on a global standard that will greatly improve computing memory. The finished specification provides an advanced short-reach (SR) and ultra short-reach (USR) interconnection across physical layers (PHYs) for applications requiring close-proximity memory support for FPGAs, ASICs and ASSPs, such as high...
The Compute Engine is Google’s initiative to offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The product will be competing with Amazon Web Services which has been in the market for a while. Google officials announced the availability of the product to the public at Google’s I/O conference in 2012. Google Compute Engine will be available at $400 a month for...
Huawei yesterday posted the year 2012 Annual Report which all showed steady improvement on the score card globally. Sales revenues of CNY 220.19 billion (Approx $35 million) with a net profit of CNY 15.38 billion (Approx $2.5 million). This has led to Huawei projecting a 10% Compound Annual growth rate over the next 5 years. (Exchange Rates: US$1.00 = CNY 6.2285...
Unveiled last month at Samsung Africa Forum, the Samsung Galaxy Star and Galaxy Pocket Neo are entry level devices for emerging markets. The two are Dual SIM devices running Android 4.1 Jelly bean in the small form factor, bringing Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to the entry level. This is quite a fete considering low end devices come running a version of Android two generations...
Windows 7.8 is currently rolling out to first generation Nokia Lumias in East Africa. These are Lumia 900, Lumia 800, Lumia 710, Lumia 610 and Lumia 510. Beyond adding the Windows 7.8 features, this upgrade comes with some camera add-ons only previously experienced on the Windows phone 8 Lumias. The camera features include Cinemagraph camera lens that enables one...
Samsung’s Galaxy Camera is a work of art, from being the Android Jelly Bean Powered device to the sleekness it elicits. It’s lovable. That could explain why the judges at GSMA couldn’t keep their eyes off it and tagging it world’s most mobile enabled consumer electronics device. Well, seems Samsung shares the same love and intends to release...
Facebook Home integrates major features of the social network into the Android platform. The suite was announced last week and will be built on the HTC First phone. Ahead of the April 12th release date, gadget blog MoDaCo received leaks of the new device. The build is based on a pre-release HTC First ROM. MoDaCo has re-signed the three applications and uploaded them...
This is a funny experience that one would love to go through for the thrill or just watch as it happens as long as things don’t get nasty in the process. This photographer hosted a party at his place where he had random people attend, mostly groupies with their friends. There is always a mix of types of individuals and you wouldn’t go long into your...
Samsung will be announcing first quarter results on the 26th of April and has since posted profit guide indicating that this quarter is just like the previous four. Profits! Samsung has estimates of 8.7 trillion won operating profit ($7.7 billion) marking a 53% rise from previous quarter. This coming in a period just before the 2013 flagship device the Samsung Galaxy...
Nokia has made their music app Nokia Music App available on the wider Windows 8 ecosystem and not just on Nokia phones. I guess the money is always welcome. It will now be available on both Windows 8 and Windows RT, basically the PC, Convertibles and tablets. Beauty of it is what you have on one device sync onto the other on connecting to the internet. See here in...
