Author: Cyrus

Engadget has these pics of the supposedly Nokia E6 spotted in the wild. The pictures reveal an 8 megapixel camera on the back with LED flash. The phone also doesnt have much change in the form factor from the E71 and E72 but with a little play on the navigation keya. The phone also might come out with VGA display though that cant be confirmed because no one got to test the phone. The E6 might be slated for debut at the Mobile World Congress which always happens in Barcelona. The event will be next week from 14th to 17th…

InMobi has announced the appointment of Isis Nyong’o (Formerly of Google Africa’s Business Development Lead specialising in Mobile partnerships) as Vice President and Managing Director, Africa. She is said to be tipped to drive InMobi’s African business strategy while InMobi is looking to expand in the continent. The position was formerly held by Stephen Newton who has since left.   Google is also one of the key partners of InMobi. InMobi has continued to witnessed the growth of mobile advertising and that is an opportunity which is still not well exploited. The company released a finding in mid January which showed…

Jamii Telecom is said to be in the process of launching a Fibre-to-Home network. According to a blog post on Balancing Act, the company will team up with Wananchi to launch the GPON network in the near future. The company looks to tap the high bandwidth market with VOIP, Video, Security and social media applications services. We know that most of the big Telecos and mostly the onest offering cellular services have grabbed much of the Wireless spectrum, John Kamau who is the GM of Jamii Telecom told Balancing Act, ”We asked ourselves what is the next big application? We…

Google ‘s Android Market is now alive after so much promises. We remember when we were promised that we will be able to access it sometimes back last year at G-Kenya conference. This completes the Android Market and Android App ecosystem. Google though should do much to correct the errors currently being experienced in the market. I don’t know if it is my connection or that the market is just not working right.

Rupert Murdoch has this morning at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, in collaboration with his News Corporation’s media empire launched the first digital newspaper meant for the iPad. Dubbed The Daily, the paper has launched with a full media team of 100s of journalists and editorial team some from formerly respected positions in The Atlantic, AOL and New York Times. The Daily will feature news, photos, graphics and videos with the iPad’s touchscreen. It will cost just $ 0.14 per day, $1 a week, $40 per year and will be sold exclusively via Apple’s iTunes store. The first two weeks…

Orange Kenya has launched a Valentine’s Day targeted offer. Starting Thursday, February 3, 2011, it will be offering a range of Alcatel handsets at subsidized prices throughout the country. The offer that runs until the end of February according to the CEO. “Orange would like to be part of our customer’s lives and give them an option of a gift that they would consider to give their loved ones”, he said. Ghossein added that the offer is part of the telecommunications initiatives, informed by the forms ongoing research into customer needs and preferences, and meeting them effectively by introducing the…

Google Insights is a great tool of ranking which search tools made it more in Google for a specific period. It can also help you see just how much a particular keyword is used in a given period in a specific region or the whole world. Google reveals the internet “Zeitgeist” through an exploration of the billions of search queries the search engine giant receives each year. Google has revealed which queries were more prevelent from Kenyan Web users in the month of January. Google talks of KCPE and KNEC being used more “because of concern over the…

Today Google unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.   Over the last 18 months Google has worked with 17 art museums including the Tate and National Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The results of this partnership, which can be explored at www.googleartproject.com involved taking a selection of super high resolution images of famous artworks, as well as collating more than…

You might be interested in this if you have great passion for web development and design. Its the new competition by Ericsson and it expects to see developers develop widgets which can solve real problems. The Prize money is a cool 15,000 Euros (Ksh 1.8 Million). The award judges will comprise of the following;

The Kenya ICT Board announced the Digital Villages (Pasha) Loans Calls for Applications on 24th January. I was still procrastinating and I am just posting the info today because everyone is asking how to go about it. The Loan is a revolving fund for those who qualify and the applicants must be in their or in a constituency where the Pasha Centre or Digital Village is much needed. Applicants have 30 days  from 24th January 2011 to submit their business plans.All applicants MUST submit their business plans directly to their nearest Family Bank and not the Kenya ICT Board. Note…

Press Release PCCW Global Limited, a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications provider, PCCW Limited, and Kenya Data Networks (KDN), Kenya’s leading full service data communications carrier, have successfully conducted the first High-Definition Video Conferencing (HDVC) connecting the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Kenya. The link-up is the first HDVC live demonstration connecting Kenya to multiple destinations outside of Africa. The demonstration has been made possible by the interconnected MPLS VPN networks between PCCW Global and KDN. High-level executives from key industries in Kenya are invited to the demonstration to witness the benefits that HDVC solutions can…

SONY just unveiled the much leaked, rumoured and reviewed-without-being-seen PSP2. It very much confirms that the leaks were not far away from the real product. The PSP2 comes with many features including the touch sensitive back panel, a high-resolution and touch-sensitive OLED screen larger than the original PSP screen, Six-axis motion sensing system, dual analog sticks, front and back-facing cameras and 3G capabilities for WLAN.

It was interesting watching Orange Kenya Corporate Communication head, Angela Mumo give us ultimatums and opinions apparently flanked by a Mr Stephen Mutoro who represents nobody. The two were at a press conference to disagree with CCK boss on matters touching on the latest Price Wars. You can read what they were saying here. Mr Mutoro was there in his capacity as the head of some organisation called Consumer Federation or whatever. The same guy heads another funny body called KARA (apparently it stands for Kenya Alliance residence Association). Both KARA and COFEK are very irrelevant entities in this sector…

If you didn’t use the Free servers, Geocities and the likes of Friendster, then you might feel that its Facebook, Twitter and MySpace which started social networking. We used to have forums which made us share and keep in touch with each other. Websites like Graduates also came along but disappeared the moment Facebook appeared on the scene. I had a Geocities site. The service was eventually discontinued by Yahoo but it was great while it existed. Yahoo even had a service called My Briefcase. Mhhhh!!! Those were the good old days. How would you feel if you go all…

Pasha Centres were suppose to be the internet access centres set up in all regions throughout Kenya. The projects was to be funded by donors and the government and the initiatives was to be run by the entreprenuers. It has had many setbacks but after much complaints and noise in various fora, the government is now determined to have the project running. The Pasha Centres were to be in three categories depending on services offered and number of computers as envisioned by the applicants. The categories are Basic, Standard and Advanced and the services offered were to be as diverse…