The Kenyan federal government has claimed it will certainly be overseeing users of social networks and taking action against anybody found provoking violence or utilizing ethnic or unfriendly foreign language in the build-up to the March 4 general election. Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Information and Communication, has said fines...
Kenyan Chief of state Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday praised United States Commander in chief Barack Obama for his re-election. In his message President Kibaki stated the re-election was a re-affirmation of the self-confidence the American people have in Chief of state Obama’s leadership capabilities. Kibaki wished United States President...
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The Kenyan government is looking at doubling existing fines to be levied against telecommunications operators in the country if low quality service continue, the federal government stated on Tuesday. The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) thinks the present fines in position enforced for poor service from telecom operators are “too lenient”. Based...
A brand new report released now states that mobile money transaction cost is likely to rise by 10 % in Kenya following the country’s Treasury makeing a number of moves to levy taxes around the enterprise. Kenyans are frustrated in the announcement and also have advised the federal government to reconsider the transfer service costs to be able to enable customers...
A Kenyan mobile startup is searching to enhance the country’s photo voltaic energy systems by providing credit to low-earnings people to buy more energy-efficient electricity models that will normally they wont be able to afford M-Kopa Controlling Director Jesse Moore stated in a statement to reporters. Based on the organization, they’ve offered some 1,000...
4G technology or Long Term Evolution (LTE) connectivity will serve as replacement technology for many regions or counties in Kenya as the government pushes for national coverage before 2013. The Kenyan government is pushing for national LTE coverage before 2013. A report in The Star in Nairobi quotes government representatives as saying that county authorities must...
Samsung Now Allowing Paid Apps in Kenya : Mobile application developers can now receive payments for apps downloaded from the Samsung Apps market place in Kenya. This new development increases monetization options for developers in East Africa whose applications target the Kenyan Market. In our earlier article titled “Samsung Apps-Diversifying local App Distribution Options” in January, we noted the inability for developers to configure their apps for consumer to pay for downloads. In June 2012, the paid downloads feature improving...
Now Available in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana: If you want to be notified in real time whenever you get an email, then Gmail SMS is for you. This feature will allow you to access your Gmail account via your phone. This comes after certain Gmail subscribers complained that they could not check their mail through their older generation phones. Also read: Uproar Grows...
As part of its Africa-wide expansion plans, Nigeria’s premier content aggregation site, Sturvs has just been launched in Ghana and is expected to launch in Kenya in a few weeks. The new Ghana site aggregates content from news sources such as OMG Ghana, Modern Ghana and Ghana Business News. Sturvs launched back in 2007 as a social bookmarking site, but later...
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