Archive for November, 2011
RIM Announces BlackBerry Mobile Fusion
Research In Motion (RIM) has introduced BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, the firm’s next-generation enterprise mobility solution and RIM’s entry into the multi-platform Mobile Device Management (MDM) marketplace. The BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is expected to simplify the management of smartphones and tablets running “We are pleased to introduce BlackBerry Mobile Fusion – RIM’s next generation enterprise mobility [...]
HumanIPO to set up paid co-working facility in Nairobi
HumanIPO, a networking tool for IT entrepreneurs which links then links them with potential financiers, is set to establish an 800-squaremetre incubation facility in Nairobi by January 2012. The space is designed to bring together freelancers and ICT related start-ups from the region to work alongside each other and to receive mentoring as well as [...]
Safaricom boosts efforts to entrench e-Learning in Kenyan Schools
Safaricom has launched an e-Learning program aimed at widening the reach and quality of ICT education in Kenyan schools. Dubbed ‘Safaricom Blackboard Solution’, the program to be rolled out in conjunction with ICT partners, will see Safaricom, through its Enterprise Business Unit, donate computers and provide its countrywide internet platform to be used to advance [...]
AfriHealth: Hospital staffers compose largest delegate group
With only few days left to the opening of the fourth annual AITEC AfriHealth conference, the continent’s leading forum to discuss management issues, technology and issues regarding universal access to medicare, senior hospital staffers drawn from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda currently constitute the largest percentage of confirmed delegates. Doctors, senior hospitals administrative officers compose nearly 40 [...]
AccessKenya awarded MPLS Service Provider at the 2011 Kenya ICT Awards
AccessKenya Group was on Tuesday awarded at the Kenya ICT Awards Gala Dinner as the 2011 Outstanding MPLS service provider due to its effective networking solutions. Remarking on the award, AccessKenya Group’s internet division managing director Kris Senanu said the company is continuously adopting newer and versatile technologies in a bid to add more value [...]
Eng Philip Okundi’s term as CCK chair extended by a further 3 years
Eng. Philip O. Okundi has been re-appointed Chairman of the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) Board of Directors for a further three years. According to a press release from the CCK circulated today, President Mwai Kibaki has made the appointment through a Kenya Gazette notice in accordance with Section 6(1) (a) of the State Corporations [...]
ICANN seeks Independent Objector ahead of new gTLD applications in 2012
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking expressions of interest from persons or organizations to serve as the Independent Objector (IO) for the New gTLD programme next year. The IO is meant to act in the public interest when determining whether to file an objection to a given application for a [...]
SkyVision wins Satellite Service Provider award at AfricaCom 2011
SkyVision Global Networks, a global provider of IP connectivity over satellite and fiber optic systems, has received the AfricaCom 2011 award of Satellite Service Provider of the Year in Africa. The award was presented at the AfricaCom 2011 awards ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa. Announcing the winners of this year’s awards, AfricaCom stated that: [...]
Shahab Meshki’s move to KDN to enhance Cisco and Altech partnership in Kenya
The recent move by Mr Shahab Meshki from Cisco’s regional head office in Nairobi to head operations of Kenya Data Networks (KDN) could in the long run help to enhance the business collaboration between Cisco and Altech, which owns KDN. In the first week of this month, Mr Meshki was appointed chief executive of KDN, [...]
AITEC Africa, United Nations University to host AfriHealth meeting in Nairobi
AfriHealth, the annual Healthcare conference that discusses policy, technology and issues regarding continental access to Healthcare, will be held in Nairobi from November 30 to December 1. The event, organised by AITEC Africa and the United Nations University, is set to bring together players in Africa’s healthcare and matches them with world’s top experts in [...]