Author: Cyrus

So AccessKenya has been touted as this great company which was built by David and Jonathan Somen who happened to be such great minds. They managed to pull the move and together with strong connections in the CMA and the Kibaki’s government, had this great IPO which resulted in the more than 300% over-subscription of the shares. The share details were as follows; Offer Dates: April 19th – April 30th 2007 IPO price: Ksh. 10.00 30% of the Company or 80 Million shares on offer. 28 Million to Retail Investors 4 Million to Employees 48 Million to Institutions …

There are shopping addicts like me. I will see a unique computer or accessory or even a book and wont hesitate to ship it to Kenya without much thought over the cost. I also grab opportunities to buy things online and then bring them to Kenya and sell. WeyaHse is one online shop run by Ben Weya. He brings in computers, phones and other electronics to Kenya and sell them at very throwaway prices. Shops like Kalahari came with much hype there has been a problem that it has turned out to be very exploitative to shop on Kalahari. Why…

If you are in Kenya, Raspberry Wedding Magazines, The Junction Shopping Centre, Samsung Electronics, Majestic Events, Flowers by Cathy 4 and Multichoice are bringing you the event live. Tomorrow there will b what has been called the wedding of the year, between British Royalty Prince William and Kate Middleton in London. But right here in Kenya, the six leading local firms have joined forces to host a public screening of the golden event at the Junction Shopping Mall. The event will be beamed on the latest Samsung LED TV screens at the venue between 10:30 am and 4pm tomorrow courtesy of DSTV…

Last year, SA got the chance to experience the iPad 1 almost two months to the release of the iPad 2 internationally. The situation has changed and now the iPad 2 is set to arrive in South Africa on Friday. The Apple Press release say that 8 countries would see the launch of the iPad 2 in their locations. The other countries where the launch will occur on 28th and 29th April are Hong Kong, India, Israel, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Turkey and UAE. Core, the Apple’s official distributor in SA has listed the pricing as follows; MODEL Pricing iPad…

Airtel and Safaricom are still into this back-n-forth over Mobile Number Portability. Airtel claims that Safaricom is blocking clients who want to port to Airtel from doing so and even those who have ported are not getting calls or even SMSes from Safaricom network. Porting Access chairman, Patrick Musimba, was yesterday quoted to have viciously attacked even the person of Safaricom’s CEO, Bob Collymore, and the mobile phone operator is not happy with the way porting access is handling issues. So what are the claims from Safaricom, Porting Access and Airtel? Complaints from Airtel Against Safaricom; Safaricom is not allowing…

SONY is said to be in plans to launch 2 Android powered tablets. The two tablets are codenamed S1 and S2 and are expected to go on sale sometimes before the end of this year. Sony says that the tablets would come in a conventional 9.4 inch touchscreen and dual 5.5 inch displays form factors. The tablets would be integrated into the Playstation Network and will run on the Android Honeycomb OS. Sony says that it will add several of its own features like the ability to transmit video and music to TVs and stereos using the DLNA wireless streaming standard. The…

Considering that all cables which have changed the internet access landscape in Kenya pass through Mombasa, it is sad that we have not fully utilised the potential of the Fiber at the coast. Internet connection remains very rare and expensive at the coast. That though would not deter techies from charting the way forward and brainstorming on what they should do to change the situation. Watch the video below; [youtube width=”580″ height=”420″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62HfUcjWPrI[/youtube] So Mombasa tech community started by calling an android developer meeting. It was well attended compared to the initial stages of the Nairobi developer community meetings. The meeting…

AFSAT Communications has sent more than a quarter of its Kenyan workforce home in a move which sources at MWEB say are meant to strengthen the company. MWEB is the subsidiary of Telkom South Africa which bought AFSAT Communication Ltd. The VSAT network operator is also feeling the effects of the fibre penetration and the new South African owners are doing lots of cost-cutting including staff layoffs and merger of competing business unites from Africa Online and AFSAT. More than 25 employees from AFSAT communications have already been handed letters informing them that their services would not be needed from…

When Amazon Cloud Services developed technical problems and brought down large social media products like Quora and Hootesuite, we thought that we will be safe at home. The truth is that Nation Media Group uses Amazon Cloud services hosting now after the harsh reviews we gave them. Nation Media Group’s hosting were fully transfered to Amazon Cloud Services. Upto now, most of the media groups sites are not loading fast enough. The most affected service is the Daily Nation.

HP showcased lost of PCs and Servers this week in Nairobi. The company also launched a some new printers in the market. HP is looking at the future and it is seeing a situation where most of the users of printers would want something portable. The company announced new business inkjet solutions designed for productivity as telecommuting, branch offices and mobile workforces proliferate. The HP Officejet Pro 8000 Enterprise Printer and HP Officejet 100 Mobile Printer allow business customers and mobile professionals to produce professional-quality documents in the office and on the go. Impressive features bundled in one mobile product…

As the Kenyan top government officials are attending the connected Kenya summit ….or is it a conference, in Mombasa, another Kenyan Government ministry’s website has been hacked by “HEXBOOT3R” which seems to have a serious problem with Israel and Zionists. Hackers leave a stamp of recognition and this attack seems to have emanated from Turkey. The hacked website belongs to national Disaster’s department in the Ministry of Special programs. Video from a Turkish TV documenting HEXBOOT3R attacks; [vimeo width=”580″ height=”420″]http://vimeo.com/22136448[/vimeo] The hacker, HEXBOOT3R, has been featured in videos like below and runs even a blog to document his hacking sojourns. What…

The fight throught the media, CCK and social media between Safaricom and Airtel Kenya is getting dirty. The issues here might be real or not real but as long as we dont get a chance to be in the technical know, we might never get to know the real truth. The fight has gotten dirty now that Kenyans have been given the freedom to move from one network to another without loosing their original number including the prefix. The mobile network honchos have been sending all media houses full communciations between the CCK, Airtel and Safaricom. But the issues seems…

Zeitgeist has released a list of 12 Young Minds from all over the world for the Google Young Minds 2011 award. The winning entries are from Namibia, Kenya, South Africa, United Kingdom and Nigeria. They are set to benefit from an all expence paid trip to the Google’s Zeitgeist event. Some of the previous speakers to have graced the event are Will.i.am, Tims Berns-Lee, Prince of Wales, Queen Rania of Jordan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Bill Clinton, and Sir Richard Branson. Some of the selected winners are; Brian Magwaro Mogaka – KenyaGrace Ihejiamaizu – Michael Mulunga – Namibia Karabo Thosa – South Africa…

Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry® solution, has today listed the top 20 most popular BlackBerry Apps in Kenya. The applications are available through the SmartPhone maker’s BlackBerry App World. The list shows just the domiannce of social media in the clients interaction with their handsets. The 20 top most downloaded and used apps are; Facebook BlackBerry Messenger WhatsApp Messenger Hangman Dictionary and Thesaurus – Dictionary com DriveSafely Player For YouTube Chat for Facebook – Free Facebook Chat App TuneIn Radio Snaptu Caller ID Reader DriveCarefully FaceChat – Free Facebook Chat App Bible Who Is It – LED…

Nelson Mandela Foundation is in a jovial mood. They asked for the Twitter handle which was created in August 2008 by Richard Millington. Millington agreed without much problems to hand-over the handle to the Nelson Mandela foundation. The foundation is asking other people holding Twitter accounts with Nelson Mandela’s name to hand them over. “We are extremely pleased with Mr Millington’s response and we would like to encourage others who hold domains using Nelson Mandela’s name to hand them over to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. Please contact us on nmf@nelsonmandela.org should you be the administrator of such a page,” said Sello…