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By Lolyne Ongeri A report by Freedom House has downgraded Kenya’s internet freedoms score from free to partially free. According to the report, Internet freedom in Kenya declined in the past year due to coordinated online misinformation […]
New findings have been revealed after an extensive BBC audience research project that has been carried out in Kenya, and Nigeria. The research is at the centre of BBC’s #BeyondFakeNews season – a new international anti-disinformation initiative […]
Huawei is set to build its Public Cloud in South Africa to provide cloud services to all sub-Saharan African countries. This is another significant move by the ICT solutions provider to accelerating its cloud business across […]
A new study of mid-size businesses and consumers reveals that many are confused and lack trust when it comes to the privacy and security of their online data and behaviour. The research, which covered six […]
According to Counterpoint Research’s latest smartphone forecast report, smartphone growth will drop to a negative 1.3% in 2018. This is a first in the history of smartphones that the market has contracted year over year. […]
Kenya has the highest internet penetration in Africa with over 31 million people having access to the internet, according to a report by Jumia Business Intelligence and GSMA Mobile. With more and more Kenyans connecting […]
Samsung Electronics has unveiled new developer tools for its Bixby and SmartThings platforms, as well as new, powerful mobile experiences with One UI and Infinity Flex Display at the ongoing Samsung Developer Conference 2018. To […]
Huawei has overtaken Apple again and remains the world’s second largest smartphone vendor for two consecutive quarters, according to analyst firms such as IDC, IHS Markit, and Counterpoint. IDC says smartphone vendors shipped 355.2 million […]
By Kaspersky Team Privacy is such a fickle concept — and doubly so, online. Many of us are quite happy to share what we ate for dinner (Instagram), where we’re going on holiday (Facebook), when […]
Digital skills are becoming essential for the jobs of today and tomorrow. From digital literacy to computer science education, these skills can open the door to greater economic opportunity in the workplace of the future. Unfortunately, […]
By Corine Mbiaketcha Nana Automation has already transformed industries in which complexity and performance demands must meet the challenges of fewer available resources, narrower profit margins and expanding product volumes. Examples include the car manufacturing […]
By Robin Njiru Public sector organisations are not immune to the forces that are reshaping organisations and industry sectors around the world. These exponential forces put pressure on public sector organisations to rethink the way […]
Next week Wednesday marks the end of October. And Wednesday, October 31 also happens to be the day when the world marks Halloween, an annual celebration with both pagan and Christian origins that takes place […]
Oracle and The World Bee Project have announced a world-first approach to understanding the declines of honey bee populations and helping protect them. The new programme uses cloud technology to better understand honey bees, the […]
By Alex Drozhzhin In the past couple of years, the concept of two-factor authentication (2FA), long the preserve of geeks, has found its way into the mainstream. However, the talk is still largely confined to using […]
Andy Halsall has been involved in the ICT industry from early 1990’s, first working at IBM as a Telecom Analyst before later moving to Orange and Fon. In 2014 however, Mr Halsall decided to focus […]
This year’s Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) ceremony, held in Lagos, Nigeria, in early September, will be remembered by Kenya’s film and TV producers and actors for a number of years to come. And […]
Many people are simply unaware that the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC), which is based at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Cape Town, is home to the fastest computer on […]
The news that the Southern African Department of Labour was recently able to foil a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on one of its external facing servers in early September reminds us that businesses […]
He spent over 20 years in the banking industry, in the process learning and getting thoroughly acquainted with the products and services that it had on offer for customers. He then left banking, but not […]
By Guido Verweij The whole notion of what today’s hyperconnected travellers want, and what they value, has changed. While cost, choice and convenience are still significant, booking decisions are now based on the experience. Right from […]
Ecobank has been able to drastically improve its business analytics needs with the help of Microsoft Power BI. The bank, which has operations in 33 countries across the continent, chose the solution due to it being […]
Oracle held its Impact Technology Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, an event geared towards driving awareness of emerging technologies and their impact on business. “Emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and […]
By Eyal Benishti Artificial intelligence is something we continue to see discussed – Elon Musk believes it will be the downfall of humanity, many are concerned its implementation could leave thousands out of jobs, and some […]
Opera and Worldreader, the global nonprofit that believes everyone can be a reader, have announced ahead of the International Literacy Day that African mobile users have spent more than 4 millions hours of reading books […]
MultiChoice recently completed a 4K/UHD streaming test of the last four matches of the FIFA World Cup on the DStv Now platform. The test posed a number of technical challenges, including achieving frame rates of […]
Findings from RSA’s recent survey in the UK showed that 28 percent of customers have elected to boycott companies that have been shown to mishandle personal data. RSA is a global cybersecurity leader with consulting and technology […]
As part of the Kenya Resilient Arid Lands Partnership for Integrated Development (Kenya RAPID) under the coordination of the Millennium Water Alliance (MWA), IBM scientists in Kenya have unveiled a water management service platform (WMaaSP) […]
The claim that cloud computing is radically transforming the way organisations (both big and small) do business, for better, agile and faster results, has become fact. However, there are still numerous scares denting the confidence […]
Unmanned systems are finding a growing number of applications in the maritime sector, and have the potential to make a significant contribution to safety and risk management, according to an industry report, Safety and Shipping Review […]
Equity Group has launched its fintech subsidiary, Finserve, signaling a future defined by disruptive innovation beyond the Group’s current financial services. Finserve will operate as an autonomous commercial enterprise, delivering solutions not just for Equity […]
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