Author: Cyrus

KNEC is currently announcing the results of KCPE 2011. The ministry has for the first time implemented online registration of new candidates and the compiled result will are still being delivered on a CD. The Ministry is implementing smart IT in curbing wastage in areas like the use of paper or by parents travelling to Nairobi and other provincial headquarters to register students. There are 3 ways in which you can get the KCPE results, 2 ways online and one way for offline checking. SMS Index Number to 5052 to get 2011 KCPE Results on SMS Visit this link and…

A man former employee of Phonedog is being sued for keeping Twitter followers that he attracted while working for the mobile news site. Formerly tweeting as @Phonedog_Noah, Noah Kravitz later changed his username when he left the company having amassed more than 17,000 followers. The company is now valuing every follower at around $2.50, demanding a total of $370,000. Noah argues that Phonedog gave him permission to continue using the account after he left. In an interview he gave to the New York Times, Noah says that Phonedog had allowed him to keep the account as long as he agreed to “tweet…

As we close the year 2011 and look forward to the year 2012, we thought that we could get a feeling of what we should expect in the Kenyan communications industry. We would be looking to speak to other key players in the industry. We found it only great to get the initial feel of what to expect in 2012 from East and Central Africa’s most profitable company’s CEO, Bob Collymore. Enjoy!! What are some of your most wonderful experience? Which experience gave you the worst nightmare? The best experience was to see how Kenyans rallied around the Kenyans for…

He is currently the highest paid footballer in the world and he is African. Cameroon’s Samuel Etoo is reported to have launched a mobile network called Set’Mobile in his home country. “Set” stands for Samuel Eto’o and the mobile network becomes the third in the country with a mobile penetration still under 20% (estimated at around 14.8%). Samuel Etoo has launched the network with a capital base of Cameroon’s CFA franc 100 Million (US $195,000), a general manager and an associate partner – Charles Gueret. Etoo hopes that the network with help lower the cost of calls, while offering services such as calls,…

Facebook acquired Snaptu and then removed support for various apps and the one affected most was Twitter. More than 26 million users in emerging markets depended on Snaptu for feature phones, mainly Nokia and Samsung, as the only way to get Facebook, Twitter and others services. With Facebook stopping to support Twitter and other services on Snaptu, we found a very good work around which impressed even the Snaptu Chief technology Officer (CTO), Barak Naveh. Now snaptu did a smart thing and made it almost impossible to use the workaround after the discovery. So Snaptu has announced that it is…

  BY KALYA TEAM In his epistle to the Galatians, the apostle Paul in his letter (Gal 5:6) shocked the early church by declaring that “For in Christ, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth anything but faith which worketh by love!” This declaration had been occasioned by falsehoods and seditious teachings that had crept into the church through certain factions that emphasized a puritanian approach to salvation. Paul, seeing that this approach would cause anarchy in the entire gentile world, sought to straighten things out. Indeed, this teaching has been the foundation of the doctrine of salvation by faith throughout Christendom. This…

Google has announced the 2012 version of the Africa Android Challenge. Google looks to discover the best Android apps developers in Africa. The apps should be able to serve the interest of the local content generators. Participants can also submit lectures related to Android on the Android Platform via the Google University Consortium Program. The competition will run in two round process, semi-finals and finals, and consists of 2 sections: Android Apps Android Courses Section I: Android Apps driven by and for local content  (one winner by section) : Education/Reference Games: Arcade/Action Social Networking Lifestyle Productivity/Tools Media Entertainment Travel Misc Section II: Android Courses (one winner by section) : Android Business view Business…

Apparently Safaricom has tried through its mother company, Vodafone UK, to get Apple to consider shifting the exclusive iPhone deal from France telcom to itself. This has failed. Orange Kenya still has the exclusivity in the market if not the region. In the meantime, Orange Kenya is not selling the iPhone 4 to any individual client as from about July 2011. The device is being sold exclusively to only selected corporate clients. Now you understand why since launch, Orange Kenya has not sold more than 1,000 pieces of iPhone in Kenyan yet this is one of the most sought after device…

His names are Moses Gichanga Mwaura and he is a Phd research student at Warwick University in the UK. It is a really captivating though not so unique considering that this is an existing innovation. The main unique point is that Moses is trying to use locally available raw materials to realise his dream. Moses is researching on Agricultural robotics at the university. Moses was formerly employed by Nation Media and Zain Kenya as a software engineer before founding the KenyaBit company. His project is well featured on University of Warwick’s website as well as on Metanomy which has promised to…

Could you do Twitter via postal mail, Facebook via faxt and or YouTube via SMS? Those are some of the questions posed by  Giles Turnbull on Twitter. Giles then went ahead and sent tweets via snail mail. In an article on The Morning News, Giles gave reasons why he decided to try the project called “Twitter-by-post”: Tweeting by post made me appreciate the online and the offline. Brevity is a good thing, but there’s no reason we should only be brief on Twitter. The internet is a marvelous thing, but so is cheese, so are close friends who know your opinions and…

Microsoft announced the launch of its “first-ever ‘Africa Pack’” on Wednesday 14th December. The pack is nothing but a collection off some freely available, rejected and lousy software which can also be downloaded from microsoft.com. While making the announcement, Microsoft claims that many Africans cannot afford the cost of downloading the software hence the reason why it is making the “Africa Pack” collection. That is one of the most stupid argument I have ever heard. How well spread out is Microsoft distribution? From what I know, the poor distribution of Microsoft is one of the main reason why piracy of…

CCK seems not to be in safe hands now. The information and communication regulator has chickened out in almost every directive they initially issued in the recent past. First it was the issue of the Mobile termination rates then the digital signal distributions and broadcast licenses, followed by the number portability and now counterfeit phones. All arguments fronted by CCK Director General, Francis Wamukota Wangusi, looks both foolish and trivial in all the cases. On mobile termination rates and under pressure from Safaricom and Orange, CCK had no excuse at all but to act on orders from baba (President Kibaki)…

A new study has revealed that those on Facebook “friend” those they know and unfriend those who offend them. The survey by NM Incite, a Nielsen McKinsey company specializing on social media data, polled over 1,800 social media users finding that 82 percent of Facebookers “friend” people they know in real life and 60 percent connect with mutual friends. Only 8% of the respondents friend others because of looks, while 7% friend people to increase their number of Facebook  “friends”. 7% of the respondents said they “friend everyone”. See the infographic on the findings below

Google is activating around 700k Android devices every single day. Some laud the achievement while a good number of online commentators believe that the growth of Android is declining. Andy Rubin, Google’s SVP of Mobile, tweeted  and posted the stats on his Google Plus profile last night. This means that some 4,900,000 new Android devices are activated each week and 255,500,000 devices each year. Google’s Eric Schmidt revealed at LeWeb last week that Android activations was at 550,000 devices per day. Rubin tweeted in June that there were 500,000 activations per day and that the figure was increasing by 4.4% per…

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) was such a great thing Kenyans expected to stop their over dependence on networks which don’t serve their connectivity needs since they feared losing their popular lines. It never solved much. We hear that Porting Access Kenya is going to complain to the new Chief Justice over abuse of court process as the porting case has been left hanging without any dates or specific gag order. “The blanket order is really bad for the industry”, a source in the industry intimates. Now according to Pakistan Today, Pakistan has banned Mobile Number Portability because of terrorism fears.…