Pay Television Company StarTimes media has launched the brand’s Direct to Home (DTH) digital television satellite service. The brand, to be known as StarSat will offer over 98 premium local and international channels to Kenyan subscribers ...
So Samsung finally did it yesterday at the IFA in Berlin and by ‘it’ I mean unveiled the latest phablet contender from its innovation corner, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4; and to the surprise of many; ...
Unilever recently launched the 3rd Edition of the ‘Idea Trophy’ Competition, a inter-university innovation contest that will run for a month and include about 500 students aged 25 and below in teams of 3 from ...
Unilever Kenya today launched the 3rd Edition of the ‘Idea Trophy’, an inter-university innovation competition that focuses on the development of personal and entrepreneurial/business competencies amongst Kenyan undergraduates. This initiative is expected to be open ...
Barclays Africa has announced a new Pan-African brand campaign named PROPER which aims to capture how the bank is helping people achieve their ambitions – in the right way by creating prosperity for customers, colleagues ...
Ovum and Informa Telecoms and Media (ITM) Research, both divisions of Informa plc, today have announced their intention to combine under the Ovum brand, to create the world’s largest telecoms industry research firm. This new ...
“Samsung’s network infrastructure team has again used MWC to announce a new operator contract. Last year the win was with Telefonica in Chile for LTE; this year Verizon Wireless has selected Samsung to provide it ...
Opinion Piece by @OvumTechnologies: PayPal and Samsung have extended their collaboration with a new biometric feature that will allow users of the new Galaxy S5 smartphone to use fingerprint authentication for mobile payments with PayPal ...
Samsung Electronics East Africa yesterday together with the iLab Africa team at Strathmore University unveiled 6 androids apps developed locally by Strathmore IT students, following a partnership research project with the University. These newly launched ...
A Kenyan photographer, Allan Gichigi, has today, 4th Feb 2014, been announced on the shortlist of the prestigious 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, one of the world’s leading photography competitions. The photographer has been shortlisted ...
Following the High court ruling yesterday on the switch-off dates from analog to digital broadcasting, the Digital Television Committee (DTC) has this morning, 24th December 2013, arrived at a date, to commence phase one of ...
I recently had an interview with Fred Odhiambo from Intel East Africa. He is a developer and his work is to help developers come up with software applications that can successfully run on Intel architecture ...
Airtel, the mobile services provider that took over Warid Telkom in Uganda earlier this year, has been recognized as the African Operator of the Year at the CommsMEA Awards 2013. Executives including telecoms CEOs, vendors, ...
The Appwiz Challenge, designed to help identify and develop successful early stage mobile technology companies in Kenya, is an initiative by Kenya’s leading mobile services’ provider, Safaricom. It was launched to help local developers with ...
The Urban Dictionary defines “fat finger syndrome” as a specific kind of typo that occurs when a writer strikes two keys instead of the intended one when putting down a word. For most people, adapting ...
Computer lab practical lessons for computer science students and other related disciplines have more often than not been deemed a nightmare by most lecturers and trainers in our learning institutions. This is attributed mostly to ...
Microsoft on Monday announced the expansion of the Microsoft Ventures partnership program into Africa. But what is Microsoft Ventures? Microsoft Ventures was introduced in June of 2013 as a coordinated global effort to offer tools, resources, expertise and routes to ...
Photography and film is a dying tradition. Since the release of the first mobile phone with a digital camera back in 2006, we have been on a fast trend to digitalization in photography which has ...
