Archive for September, 2011
Barclays launches new ATM screens
Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd has launched a new interface across the Bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) network comprising of more than 230 plus machines. The new and friendly interface features dynamic video content which promotes the Bank’s various products and services. Barclays Consumer Banking Director, Abdi Mohamed, said the change was in an effort [...]
Cisco, Microsoft to collaborate in data centre virtualization
Cisco has announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver data center virtualization solutions designed to provide improved scalability and operational control of Microsoft Windows Server “8” virtual environments. Through the partnership, Cisco’s Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch and the Cisco Unified Computing System with Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) capabilities will work [...]
Facebook’s Richard Allan @ UN IGF in Nairobi
“Content’s still king and is going to be hosted in domains that people control entirely. Our network’s global but most of out content’s local,” said Richard Allan, Facebook’s Director of Policy in Europe at UN IGF on September 27.
Kenya to host “WordCamp” conference at Naivasha’s Crayfish Camp
Kenya is set to host a conference about the world’s most popular blogging software WordPress, an event that will bring together developers, designers and users for talks and workshops related to publishing on the web. The event, dubbed WordCamp Kenya 2011, is scheduled for November 12 and 13. To attend participants will have to pay $ [...]
Anti-counterfeit Authority, Kenya Police begin raids on fake devices
After the announcement that no new fake mobile handsets would successfully connect to SIM cards by end of September by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) and industry stakeholders, the anti-counterfeit agency (ACA) has in partnership with the Kenya Police now enhanced its raids on outlets selling devices with fakes IMEIs. In August, Nokia in [...]
Temenos, SAP and Nokia Siemens representatives to attend AITEC’s November ICT Summit in Nairobi
The world’s leader in packaged banking software, Temenos, headquartered in Switzerland, is among six European giant technology firms that have confirmed participation at the AITEC ICT Summit to be convened in Nairobi on November 2 to 3. Other delegations that have confirmed participation are drawn from Senegal, Sri Lanka and Egypt. Temenos, which entered the [...]
Kenyans have more viewing choice with launch of GOtv
A new Digital Terrestrial Television service, GOtv has been launched in Nairobi and its environs. The launch represents an advanced digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcast system and infrastructure established in Africa and the rest of the world to date and leapfrogs the outdated T1 systems which were utilized by first movers in the Digital Migration. [...]
Huawei showcases mobile broadband solutions in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
China’s Huawei Technologies has embarked on a journey to showcase its latest mobile broadband (MBB) solutions. The roadshow, to be carried out through a demo truck, began from South Africa through Kenya then Tanzania, before ending in Uganda. The road show comes at time when mobile broadband (MBB) is playing a key role in driving [...]
G4S supports CCK’s Universal service fund to courier firms
Courier firm G4S Courier has supported the push by the industry’s regulator, Communications Commission of Kenya’s (CCK) new regulation requiring courier companies to contribute 0.5 per cent of their annual turnover towards a postal Universal Service Fund (USF). The postal fund is a requirement of the law having been created under the Kenya Communications Amendment [...]
At TECNO phone launch
“These phones, whether made in China, are not Chinese phones,” MC @ TECNO launch