Author: Cyrus

Safaricom has won the first round of its battle with Porting Access. The two firms have been locked into a battle of accusations with Porting Access accusing Safaricom of sabotaging the Mobile Number Porting. Safaricom has hit back and questioned the competency of Porting Access in implementing the service and also the character of the chairman, Mr Patrick Musimba. Now Safaricom has made good its threat to go to court and has got its certificate certified as urgent by Nairobi High Court and porting Access barred from making any more accusations against Safaricom. Lets wait and see how this pans…

Okoa Jahazi is the Safaricom credit system which allows the subscribers to get credits in case they run out of air-time. The company has now made some changes to the Okoa Jahazi system with some improvements on loaning and again the restriction on who can borrow and how many times. Before today, you could borrow Ksh 45 and be charged a fee of ksh 5. That made it Ksh 50. You also had to recharge your account at-least once in the last 24 hours to be able to borrow. Some of the improvements Safaricom has made to the system are…

Kenyans Online are now feeling the heat. Many are attacking them for various reasons and it is mostly out of ignorance, fear, or just the need to control everybody and everything. Mzalendo Kibunja and his bunch of snoops have been bragging how they are watching Kenyans online. They are not only watching Kenyans in Kenya but also those living out of the country. I sought to know which laws have been broken and which ones are being used to target these vibrant communities. Mzalendo disappeared from his own office. Apparently someone warned him that I am not easy in an…

Samsung is promoting a major international press conference and Samsung Africa Forum to be held in Nairobi. The event will be at Kenyatta International Conference Centre on 11th May and it seems like many phones, tablets, TVs and even IT stuff will be launched at the event. After the press conference, Samsung will be be having what they call Samsung Forum which we believe is some kind of exhibition. Ooh I have just been informed that it is the turn of Kenya to eat. Last year’s event was hosted in Johannesburg in South Africa. The world forum was hosted in Vienna,…

Julian Assange has done a very thought provoking interview with RT, a 24-hour Russian satellite news channel,. The interview lasted not more than 15 Minutes but Juliane was revealing in his replies to various questions. Assange revealed that he has very damning information which will ruffle feathers further on very different matters. He touched on the North Africa and Middle East revolution, his philosophy and also pending extradition to Sweden. In the interview, the Wikileaks boss talks about Facebook calling it the “most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented”. When prodded further he says “Here we have the world’s…

With the International Workers’ Day just around the corner, computer users are concentrated mostly on celebrating, most of the times without exercising enough caution when choosing the site they visit. The bad news is that cybercriminals hardly take any days off and they really favor this kind of occasions to harm computer users. To add insult to injury, these crooks use more or less the same technique with constant good results, as computer users seem to fall for the same scams over and over again. Classic Phishing Scams   Phising scams are one of the favorites. A fake page is…

Regular note-taking is one of the most productive habits a person can practice. The ability to take notes online and access them anytime, from any location is priceless. The other great advantage of taking notes online is that it forces you to keep notes (decently) clear, (relatively) coherent, and (somewhat) systematic. Here are some applications that you can try for note taking. Listhings Listhings is an eco-friendly web app for storing notes. The notes are automatically saved to Listhings database servers. When you’re a registered user, you can access your notes from anywhere, share them with anyone and collaborate in…

We have seen it with our pastors, politicians and now even the citizens eye has chosen to prey on the misery of the Kenyan population. It is sad that whenever Kenyans are experiencing tough economic times, one party will come with avenues of making them rich QUICK. The media has seen that the gambling industry in Kenya is not regulated as it should be and so a standard one kid with a phone will be able to participate in the lotteries run by media houses which are acceptable to every household in Kenya. [youtube width=”580″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPQBW6mPk0k[/youtube] The latest culprit is…

Mobile phone operators, Safaricom and Airtel are locked in the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) wars again this month and the bone of contention this time is the neutrality of Porting Access which provides the porting services. Safaricom praises the “professionalism of CCK and its patience in the implementation of MNP”. The dominant mobile operator says that CCK has been more consultative in seeking to solve the problems. Airtel accuses Safaricom of being a hindrance to the implementation of MNP and alleges that CCK cannot act in this case because Safaricom has called its bluff. CCK cannot punish Safaricom which has…

Research In Motion has today unveiled BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones with some stunning and iconic designs. The new smartphones integrates the BlackBerry keyboard with a brilliant, high resolution, capacitive touch screen. The smartphones are powered by the BlackBerry 7 operating system. You can easily distinguish a BlackBerry by the iconic keyboard. The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones feature the premium materials and finishes that characterize the BlackBerry Bold line. Both models have a lustrous exterior with a brushed stainless steel frame and a high-gloss glass-weave backplate. They are also the thinnest BlackBerry smartphones yet, at only 10.5mm.…

Kenyans have heard threats from the police and the organisation in charge of ethnic cohesion that they will hold Kenyans online with any hate messages they post on Facebook or Twitter. Now, Wikileaks is making their work easier, through a tweet, the organisation has distributed this confidential law enforcement guideline and form. Check it out here

So I had the misfortune of being in the position of Uhuru Kenyatta when the Standard Group through half-baked journalism, mentioned how he had lost Ksh 840 Million at JKIA after arriving from the Hague. Then, I defended the Standard Group when I believed that the police was harassing their journalists in the investigations of the story. Then today, I get a tweet that I have been featured in some report in the Standard. I get someone to get for me a copy of the Standard and what I get is some write-up by James ratemo quoting some report done…

Huawei has filed lawsuits in Germany, France, and Hungary against ZTE Corporation (ZTE) for patent and trade mark infringement. The lawsuits were filed on the basis that ZTE is infringing a series of Huawei’s patents relating to data card and LTE (Long Term Evolution) technologies and illegally used a Huawei-registered trademark on some of its data card products. Huawei’s Chief Legal Officer, Dr. Song Liuping said that these lawsuits were commenced after ZTE failed to respond to cease and desist letters. Huawei CLO also say that the company had also actively invited ZTE on numerous occasions to enter into cross-patent…

I had the chance for the last 2 days to experience the Nokia E7. I know that the phone was made for a purpose, the communicator addicts. They demanded it and Nokia heard their cries. To get great raves, Nokia had to dish it to every layabout without much thought whether they will actually do reviews on it or no. But when you are given a phone which costs Ksh 53,000 for free, what do you do? You must just lick some ….mhhhh. Ok, what are the good, the bad and the ugly on the phone? Let me start by…

The picture above was taken by a blogger withdrawing money from Equity Bank’s ATMs. The question is whether Equity Bank is seriously running demo software on its ATMs.