Blackberry's new OS allows you to do more
For all the Blackberry loyalists, you can now get popular apps such as Spotify, Instagram and Candy Crush Saga in your smartphone, thanks to the new BlackBerry OS 10.2.1. The smartphone company...
View ArticleFacebook creates personalised videos for users
In honour of its 10th birthday, Facebook created 62-second, personalised videos for all its users. Facebook calls the video "A Look Back," and invites you to reminisce about your life since you joined...
View ArticleKenyan photographer for Sony Awards
Kenyan photographer Allan Gichigi is on the shortlist of the prestigious 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, one of the world’s leading photography competitions. The photographer has been shortlisted...
View ArticleKenyans can book flights using mobi site
Travelstart, Africa’s fastest growing global travel search site, will be the first website in Kenya to offer mobi-site bookings via mobile devices. The mobile website, available at...
View ArticleStudent creates online system to manage schools
Teacher Wilkister Makori carries her entire school records in her handbag every day. The principal of Bright Light Community School on Nairobi's Gitanga Road has done that daily for the last four...
View ArticleSamsung to host 6 Kenyan apps in store
Six Kenyan-made applications will be made available to the world in about a week’s time after their successful launch at the Strathmore University. The applications made by students of Strathmore’s IT...
View ArticleNokia apps for business travellers
Nokia is exceedingly reinventing their game by providing applications that are unique to the Windows Phone 8 platform. They have unveiled a new range of applications that can now be downloaded from the...
View ArticleApple to make 'solid case' for new iPhone
The iPhone is undoubtedly one of the hallmarks of innovation today. However while it is eye-candy, the iPhone falls short of all rounded praise as an unrivalled masterpiece. Anyone who has owned the...
View ArticleFacebook bets big on mobile with $19bn WhatsApp deal
Facebook is betting huge on mobile with an eye-popping cash-and-stock deal worth up to $19 billion (Sh1.63 trillion) for Internet Age smartphone messaging service WhatsApp . The surprise mega-deal...
View ArticleSamsung's smart watches hold promise of a fitter you
Samsung's next generation smart watches, the Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neo, released with the Samsung Galaxy S5 smart phone have been engineered with a health and fitness lifestyle in mind. The Gear 2 and...
View ArticleNew 'clean' Samsung S5 is water, dust resistant
Electronic appliances giant Samsung Electronics launched the much-anticipated Samsung S5, the newest member in the Galaxy rage of smartphones on Monday in Barcelona, Spain, during the Mobile World...
View ArticleApp developers get imaging software
Kenyan developers are set to benefit from the introduction of the latest version of the Nokia Imaging Software Development Kit (SDK) which will enable them to create imaging-based apps that will run...
View ArticleWorld's first Nokia Lumia skirt
Nokia will be upping the ante at this year's London Fashion Week 2014. They have teamed up with designers and Fashion Fringe winners, Fyodor Golan to create the world’s first interactive smart skirt...
View ArticleNokia Lumia 1320's screen makes things beautiful
The Nokia mobile phone brand’s resurgence is hard to ignore in the Kenyan market with the introduction of the Lumia line of handsets. This renewed presence couldn’t be more evident in the Lumia 1320, a...
View ArticleWorld Wide Web turns 25 years old
Twenty-five years ago, the World Wide Web was just an idea in a technical paper from an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab. That idea from Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN lab in...
View ArticleSocial Media Report Outlines Kenya's Growing Digital Landscape
The inaugural Nendo 2014/2015 Social Media Trend Report builds on the lessons from East Africa's most active Twitter city, Nairobi, and the social media landscape in 2013 to present predictions for the...
View Article'Little' HTC One Mini making Big noise
The HTC One Mini is an embodiment of what compact convenience mobile devices have been making attempts at achieving since their inception. Be it connectivity, clear crisp imaging and sound as well as...
View ArticleThe eye in the sky: drone journalism in Kenya
The field of audio-visual news and content presentation is ever-evolving. Internationally, news corporations spend generously towards the development of crowdsourcing news applications, high tech...
View ArticleWeb-based app measures brands' online sentiments
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. Steuart Henderson Britt In the world of business today, the successful...
View ArticleZetech nurtures high school tech innovations
Zetech College has started a mentorship programme that will see it nurture and sponsor technology innovations originating from high school students countrywide. It has began by sponsoring 66 students...
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