NO VAT ON MOBILE DEVICES

I know a few guys who are particularly happy with Kenya Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta. One of them is my good friend Dorothy Ooko of Nokia.While many people in the industry wanted a tax reduction on airtime, the minister decided to use the question ‘which came first the egg or the chicken?’
Well as you try [...]

BANKS STOP WHINING…INNOVATE

I remember when and why I opened my bank account. It was a very well worded treat from the accounts department. It had exactly five lines, but the last one was the one that impressed upon me.
It said ‘failure to do this will result to no salary’.
So I went to the bank. The experience was [...]

SAFARICOM PROFITS BETTER…..

Almost all the people I know in Kenya have Safaricom mobile phone number. Most of the guys I know queued for some hours with the intention of owning a piece of this cash cow. The smart ones bought the shares online.
With slightly over a third of the population of Kenya (according to Safaricom), being a [...]

PRE-ORDER NOKIA YOUR N97

One thing I love about London is its centrality. Where as the weather sucks (no wonder all Brits have puckered brows), London has the enviable stature of having many first.
If you launch it in London then people will take it seriously. Well guys in Helsinki have been keeping most gadget guys and enthusiasts waiting for [...]

UJAJA WIRELESS TRACKING SERVICES

I hate Mondays; in fact I have come to loath every thing associated with this day. It’s the day that the football review is done and for a while now I hated my coach. Its also the day that I have find a way to repay that loaner from dude friend when an old flame [...]

FARMERS GO E!

It’s always interesting to watch someone use some technology for the very first time. It may be the use of a simple cooker that can easily harness the rays of the sun or sophisticated vehicle that can transform itself into a robot (touché).
 
What is always amazing is the adoption of the technology. Whereas the creator [...]

LIPUA AND REWARDZ TIME

Its Easter season and the cities of East Africa are experiencing the usual exodus. It’s a pilgrimage that many folks in the region tend to. The roads are filled by scores of people who are traveling up country or their rural homes for some time out from the fast pace of the city life.

For those [...]

ZAP,MPESA NOW NFC PAYMENTS

Trust Kenyans to change invent new ways of using stuff. Eunice my local grocer has just put up a new notice just at the door of her shop. For a while now she has been having a re-stocking problem due to the many unpaid bills that her close clients have accumulated.
 
So to avert a sudden [...]

*131# AND SAFARICOM

I remember some years ago while I was in primary school, the Daily Nation newspaper (I do not remember which year) had a story about how Kenya became the first country in Africa to put a person on the moon.
I was very elated and the emotions were overwhelming. Little did I know that the story [...]

LADIES,GADGETS AND SOCIAL SITES

The cliché has been that women hate gadgets and the fear for many ICT companies was how they would excite our lady folk. Well as it is now, it’s the lady folk that is exciting the tech firms.
 
Am from Mars and am yet to understand and know my mother. She is a sweet lady but [...]