Archive for April, 2012
UNECA’s Aida Opoku-Mensah feted at Geospatial world Forum
The director of the ICT, Science & Technology Division of the Addis Ababa-based United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA) Dr Aida Opoku-Mensah has been bestowed with the ‘Geospatial World Leadership Award for Making a Difference’ award at this year’s Geospatial World Forum held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dr Opoku-Mensah was among professionals, entrepreneurs, organisations, programmes [...]
AccessKenya Group unveils new website to improve client interaction
AccessKenya Group has launched a new dynamic and interactive website in a renewed bid to scale up online interactivity with its customers and internet users as it continues to focus on growing its online presence with a view of engaging more people to continuously understand their changing needs. “We have increased our interaction online [...]
MobiKash to increase network via PesaPoint partnership
MobiKash is counting on a deal signed with PesaPoint Limited, Kenya’s largest independent ATM network, to replicate the success of rivals M-PESA and Airtel Money in providing its customers the critical 24 hour service availability. The deal will see MobiKash, the network-independent mobile money service provider launched July last year; become the third mobile money provider [...]
Safaricom’s Bob Collymore to sit on UN Global Compact Board
Bob Collymore, the Safaricom chief executive, has been named by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, to the UN Global Compact Board, a voluntary initiative aimed at recognizing businesses committed to adopting sustainable and socially-responsible policies. “As Safaricom, we feel it is important for companies to report on their operations from a holistic perspective and to [...]
Bharti Airtel appoints Shivan Bhargava managing director for Kenya
Bharti Airtel, a global telecom services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has announced the appointment of Shivan Bhargava as managing director for its Kenyan operation. Shivan was previously the firm’s Chief Operating Officer and will in his new role be responsible for leading Airtel’s growth plans in Kenya. “Kenya has always [...]
Cisco launches Africa Women Leadership programme
Cisco has launched the first Africa Women Initiative, that targets young talented women at college and universities who have already shown motivation, talent and are potentially successful in their local environments, but in need of the necessary boost to widen their views. This initiative’s primary goal is to boost future prospects of talented young women [...]
Why would Airtel Kenya reward inactive SIM holders with 16 hours of free talk time?!!!
Here’s an announcement from the country’s second largest mobile network operator in terms of subscriber numbers, Airtel Kenya, which will make those with un-used and idle Airtel SIM cards to dust them up and connect them to their devices, and asap!!! According to a media release sent out today, Airtel Kenya has launched a new [...]
BlackBerry users set to enjoy more Apps
Research In Motion (RIM), the manufacturer of BlackBerry smartphones, is set to introduce a series of updates to its apps store over the coming days to make it easier for users to stay connected with their BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) community. RIM recently announced that Facebook for BlackBerry smartphones, Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry Travel, BlackBerry [...]
Safaricom seeks to double internet users to 8 million by end of 2012
Safaricom will double the number of its Mobile Phone internet users from 4 million to 8 million by the end of this year, according to the firm’s general manager for consumer business unit (CBU) Peter Arina. Arina said Safaricom plans to achieve this milestone by reaching its subscribers through a 3-month experiential tour that started [...]
Orange UK outlets to distribute Nokia Lumia 610 handsets
Nokia has announced that Orange UK will be the first operator to stock its Near Field Communication (NFC) version of the recently-launched Nokia Lumia 610, the most affordable smartphone in the Lumia range and the perfect introduction to Windows Phone for the youth market. The NFC is a feature which makes it easy [...]