Author: Cyrus

Microsoft troubled web-based email service, Hotmail, which was introduced to the world more than a decade and half ago, has been officially retired by the software giant. All the users of the service have been migrated to Outlook.com. According to Microsoft, the migration to Outlook.Com involved moving more than 150 million gigabits of data. Hotmail email account owners will however be able to keep their old @Hotmail addresses. Microsoft has also announced that all settings on Hotmail mobile and Web apps will automatically be updated. Through Outlook.Com, Microsoft hopes to fully integrate its mailing service with the newly launched touch-focused Windows…

  By Proudly Kenyan Kenyan politics are personality based. The talk of a great leader losing their dignity because of taking an elective position is just hot air being blown by political enemies of one Raila Odinga. The strategy has been executed so well that many of Raila’s supporters have adopted the version. The truth is Kenyans elevate or lower a position depending on who is seated there. If a criminal is in a position that was hitherto held in high regard, the seat becomes less significant. Raila has always had the ability to transform the positions occupied in…

It’s two months after the March 4th, 2013 elections in Kenya. It’s about sixty nine days since the Independent Electoral and Boundaries’ Commission (the IEBC) declared both Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto duly elected president and deputy president, respectively. Fourteen days after that, the Supreme Court of Kenya confirmed the IEBC’s declaration in a unanimous verdict that sent the principal petitioner and Uhuru’s main challenger in the presidential election,Raila Odinga, into a psychological spin whose reverberations are still being felt to this day. Will Odinga finally accept the democratic will of the Kenyan people? Apparently not. In numerous incoherent, inconsistent and contradictory utterances since the Supreme…

Two Kenyan budding app developing teams – Tokelezea and Easy Parking – emerged winners in the just concluded Ericsson “Apps for African City Life” awards. They were recently feted by the company. The five software developers – two from Tokelezea and three from Easy Parking – were each handed an “ASUS Transformer Pad” tablet. The Tokelezea app was voted the second prize while Easy Parking took the third position. At the ceremony, Ericsson Kenya managing director Robert Rudin said that the company is set to have more significant impact in both Kenya and the region by developing solutions that can…

Daniel Owira, family members and teacher meeting President Uhuru So Daniel Owira is now famous and according to his family (especially his elder sister), he neither needs his Principal at Highway Secondary School nor the drama teacher who literally dragged him from being a football player to drama which he never liked. Clifford Ouma is a trained secondary school teacher who is jobless. He is gets contracted to write scripts for plays and has been training the students of Highway Secondary school for sometime. When he saw the talent in Daniel Owira (he was never in drama), Clifford thought that…

Our MPs are making lots of noise about the “low salaries” they claim that have been gazetted by the Sarah Serem led Salaries and Remunerations Commission. But the funny bit is that Sarah is currently touring the USA and is so very deaf to whatever insults the MPs are directing her way. See her in the picture above with our ambassador, Elkanah Odembo.

We are being informed by Nyeri residents that the governor, Nderitu Gachagua, has decided to demolish the Health Centre and build his offices in its current place. This is something which should be opposed. I guess that he is getting lessons from Mwai Kibaki who want to have an Hospital in Westlands demolished so that he can have his private offices in its place. How do our leaders think? PATHETIC!!!

Uhuru Kenyatta vowed yesterday that he will protect media freedom. We doubt that he will. Uhuru Kenyatta is known to be high tempered and rarely stomach criticism from the media. Uhuru Kenyatta has sued the media and taken some to the media council for just making casual comments about him Again photo journalist, Boniface Mwangi, was assaulted right in front of Uhuru Kenyatta by a private army of thugs hired by COTU secretary General, Francis Atwoli. You wonder how Uhuru can convince Kenyans that he will protect media freedom when he didn’t stand and stop the assault of a journalist…

Ory Okolloh, famously known as KenyanPundit and one of the founders of Ushahidi, has today tweeted as below. Today is my last day at Google.Been an amazing ride. Time for the next big thing. — Ory Okolloh (@kenyanpundit) May 3, 2013 With Uhuru Kenyatta tapping young people to join his government, it seems like the Harvard trained lawyer is joining Uhuru’s government. We will keep sniffing around for more on this.

Daniel Owira of the Otonglo Time fame is making real Otonglo now. The high school student who became famous during the last schools and colleges drama festivals has just earned more than Ksh 200,000 from a Naivas advert. Things are looking good for Daniel Owira. We are proud of his achievements in the last few days.  Watch the advert below. FYI, Daniel Owira had his Twitter profile reserved for him by NTV.

Daniel Owira of the Otonglo Time fame is making real Otonglo now. The high school student who became famous during the last schools and colleges drama festivals has just earned more than Ksh 200,000 from a Naivas advert. Things are looking good for Daniel Owira. We are proud of his achievements in the last few days.  Watch the advert below. [youtube FYI, Daniel Owira had his Twitter profile reserved for him by NTV.

It has been said that Jaguar bought an aircraft and a Bentley. That is not true. Jaguar neither owns the Bentley nor the aircraft. Both machines are owned by the owner of Subru Motors, John Nderitu. Jaguar rented the machines for a video shoot

A Facebook user is not so amused with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s “PR stunts”. President Uhuru was in Mombasa to watch the performance of the finalists in the Kenya Drama Festival. He was so impressed with the performance of one artist, Daniel Owira of Otonglo Time fame, that he invited the poor young man for a tour of the State House. The President also promised to adopt the young talented kid as his own and so pay his fees to University. The sad bit is that the student will still continue studying at Highway Secondary School. You wonder if Uhuru’s kids…

A Facebook user is not so amused with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s “PR stunts”. President Uhuru was in Mombasa to watch the performance of the finalists in the Kenya Drama Festival. He was so impressed with the performance of one artist, Daniel Owira of Otonglo Time fame, that he invited the poor young man for a tour of the State House. The President also promised to adopt the young talented kid as his own and so pay his fees to University. The sad bit is that the student will still continue studying at Highway Secondary School. You wonder if Uhuru’s kids…

Safaricom has launched a very well thought out means to con Kenyans off their Bonga Points. Bonga Points are Safaricom loyalty rewards to users for every Ksh10 spent on the network. So Safaricom say that you can buy a one way ticket to selected local destinations by just redeeming 28,000 Bonga Points. The service provider goes further to claim that with 40,000 Bonga Points you can purchase a domestic return ticket in Kenya Airways. Let me explain to you the scheme. For you to accumulate 28,000, you would have spent around 280,000 on Safaricom network. How long will that one…