Barely a week after the start of shipping, Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 already has a feather in the cap in the name of Pentagon Security approval. This means the Galaxy S 4 is approved for use by the US Defence Agencies, a position only previously reserved for the fruity devices from Blackberry, formerly RIM. Samsung had previously promised to eat into Blackberry’s...
In whatever industry you can think of, competition for market-share is cut-throat. Blue-chip companies are hounding the smaller fish out of the market place and the multinationals are closing in from every angle with the liberalized world trade. In all this push and shove, startups, small, medium and micro-enterprises have to tap on their advantages now more than...
Samsung will be having a two week promotion for the Galaxy S 4 users that will be called Gameloft Galaxy S 4 launch Celebration. The promo will see users get huge discounts off premium Gameloft apps. Promoted applications will be offered at low prices in this promo that will target Galaxy S 4 users. It will also be available for other Samsung Android devices like...
Core Security has published several critical issues with 16 D-Link IP camera models. This includes a hardcoded password — “?*” — which provides administrative access to the devices giving attackers to access live RTSP video stream from the camera. The bulletin contains details on five vulnerabilities discovered in the firmware deployed on...
Bharti Airtel acquisition Warid Telecom has put Warid customers on edge as some are concerned that they won’t be able to maintain their numbers. The deal which is Airtel’s first in-market acquisitin in history, has seen customers suggest that they may end up missing out on popular products currently offered on the Warid network. Head of Communications...
The GSMA Mobile Asia Expo, planned for 26-28 June, will feature the NFC experience through which exhibitors, vendors and attendees will be able to use mobile Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for retail transactions and information exchange. The event will be hosted in China at the Shanghai New International Exhibition Centre (SNIEC). The NFC Experience...
Instead of creating the ultimate cloud solution for everybody, Oracle has a better idea. Build your own domestic cloud storage rig and the company has published a recipe to that effect. Included in the list are many Oracle (VirtualBox, Solaris 11.1 and ZFS) and Non-Oracle (Apache and the free AjaXplorer tool) products alike. AjaXplorer allows you to connect iOS...
Cloud vendors have put a lot of effort into marketing their products. Some of the results of these efforts are quite remarkable with Microsoft and OpenStack opting for rappers to represent their products. And Oracle choosing to feature a long monologue where the Stark industries CIO finds out about the benefits of Oracle’s cloud. The Oracle campaing is modelled on the movie, IronMan 3. From the script, part of the conversation examines the benefits of Oracle’s cloud. “So as you can see, Stark Industries’ commitment...
A Boy and His Atom, this is the title of the smallest movie ever made. The movie was conceived by IBM researchers to get people interested in science. The researchers used a copper surface over which they created their story using carbon monoxide molecules. The molecules were moved by hand, one at a time, with help of a scanning tunneling electron microscope. This...
Security tools firm, AlienVault has been investigating the US Department of Labor’s Site Exposure Matrices (SEM) website. The site is said to have been injected with malicious code. Since yesterday, every request to the site has included code from a malicious server, the code collects information from the user’s machine and uploads it to the server. According...
The past week saw Google open up Google Glass for developers. This was done quietly on April 27th. The code is available as a Linux tarball under the GPLv2 license. Based on Android 4.04, the code is expected to be kept next to all other android kernel source trees. Google had already released technical details on the hardware support for the new kernel with the first...
Sony hasn’t gotten out of that position between the rock and a hard place where profits and losses are concerned. This marks the second year straight of no profits. The Next Web reports that Sony Executives have since yielded to a proposal by their CEO Kazuo Hirai backed that the Sony Board to forgo bonuses in this fiscal year. A sum that would take the annual...
Nokia is holding a media event in New Delhi, India on the 9th of May. They have already sent an invite according to BGR and other bloggers. This is separate from the event that is set for the 14th of May in London where Nokia is expected to unveil a high end Nokia Lumia. The India event, with a tag “Time to shift Gears” is highly expected to be an Asha...
Are smart watches becoming the in thing? Every mobile phone vendor seems to be working on their version. Many are made to compliment the smartphone they built while others are independent. Smartwatches that have already hit the market run a variety of operating systems with Android being used in many of these miniature devices. One of them, the Leikr runs Linux. There are also two open source smartwatches, backed by Kickstarter which run hooks of the Linux and Android systems. Here is a summary of several smart watches that run Android...
Samsung has unveiled the newest of their cameras off the NX range, the NX2000 which takes after the success of the NX1000 which got great reviews. The NX2000 doesn’t come with Android on board but comes laden with features that will make that a minor thing. Camera professionals had issue with the part where Galaxy camera takes long to boot from off. This one,...
Some very many months ago, Safaricom announced that a brand new Safaricom App Store will be up in a few months. In the same breath, came in the promise to open up the M-Pesa API to enable developers interact with Mpesa in monetization of their online commodities. Well, at-least going by a URL I landed on a few days ago, we have the App Store ready. Safaricom...
Huawei on Friday partnered with Khulisani-an enterprise development company that focuses on the ongoing upliftment of individuals with disabilities-in South of Johannesburg, South Africa in a move to support people with disabilities in the area. This move seeks to eliminate illiteracy among communities that result from some limiting situations like disability. The...
The Safaricom Academy is a 2 year Masters degree program established to meet the emerging needs of global telecommunications. Since its inception, the Academy has admitted 142 students with 112 of them receiving full sponsorships from Safaricom. The first group of 89 students have successfully completed the course and will be awarded a Masters of Science in Mobile...
The nerd is always the guy on the losing end, ask Dexter. He is the guy who sits uncomfortably while others get the girls. The macho man, the body builder are the guys who strike the kill all the time. Not in this ad. And this is not about nerd dating tips. Safaricom last night uploaded a video to promote their internet sharing service “Sambaza Internet”,...
Nokia’s most recent ad for the Lumia 920 range is a poke of fun at Samsung Apple rivalry. If you have been following the mobile scene you are pretty much aware of the rivalry between Apple and Samsung, and how successful Samsung was at painting iPhone and iPhone users in a bad light as some brainwashed lot. Well, seems Nokia wants in on the pie and has decided...
Samsung yesterday announced their newest tablet, this time from the 7 inch range, the Galaxy Tab 3 7 inch. The design on the device seems to have taken from the Galaxy Note 8 which was announced earlier in the year at Mobile World Congress. The Galaxy tab 3 7 inch has the following specifications: 3G and Wi-Fi only options, 3G with 21Mbps HSDPA 1.2GHz Dual Core processor 7″...
