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Archive for the Category ‘Technology’

Learning from the Google Boys at GTUG Nairobi

I spent the better part of my Saturday interacting with the boys at Google Kenya.
Amhed  Maawy gave us a brief overview of what services Google is offering within the Kenyan Space.
They are:

Google Search
Google Site
Google Mail
Google Blogs
Google News
Google Chrome
Google App Engine

He also officially invited the members to the group. You can also join at
http://groups.google.co.ke/group/nairobigtug?hl=en
Next up was [...]

Mobile Web East Africa 2010 Opening & Closing Remarks

Opening  Remarks
Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the second day of the first Mobile Web Conference in East Africa. Technology today, in particular Mobile and Web technology is increasingly becoming an essential part of our life. Today more than 30 percent of East Africans have access to mobile phone technology. Internet adoption in this region is [...]

Mobile Web East Africa Conference

The Mobile Web East Africa conference will be held in Nairobi on 3rd and 4th February at the Hotel Intercontinental. I will be giving a lecture on Web/Mobile technologies and social progress.
Also speaking will be a whole host of leading experts and businessmen from the East African region and beyond. You can see the full [...]

Google Nexus One smart phone shakes up sector

Having spent almost 4 days including today moving up and down London’s High street shops looking for the best mobile phone around, and having finally settled on Nokia N97 and the iPhone 3GS as the most likely candidates to meet that requirement.  Google needed to pull one out of the hat to convince me that better was [...]

Technologies for 2010 – 6th Sense & JooJoo

Introducing the technologies i believe will change the world in 2010.
SixthSense
Developed by Pranav Mistry who is currently a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, ‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that [...]

Kenya’s increasing Hack attacks

I logged in to the admin section of this website to discover that i had been spammed (SQL Injection Hacks) into yet another tiring routine of deleting comments and lose 20 more minutes of my life carefully perusing through spam and actual comments.
Spam is increasingly becoming a huge expense and burden on almost anyone who [...]

Oxford University Social media conference

Social media marketing (SMM) gets a lot of press these days
– and companies are feeling pressure to jump on the bandwagon.
But if you’re like many marketers, you may be unclear
about the benefits of SMM and how, exactly, you should
use it to your best advantage. Without a clear strategy and
specific goals and objectives, SMM can be [...]

Kenyan Wind farms: Why they could be another White elephant.

Hey guys, some Kenyan bloggers have done some background research on the Kenyan wind farm projects and there is some indication that the cost of the project has been doubled and is not going to be as effective as it sounds. Please follow the discussion here.
Consensus has been building for a Nuclear/ Geothermal power plant
Don’t [...]

Witricity means wireless electricity :: Its Here

Folks!!! Its finally here Wireless Electricity is finally here! Imagine charging your phone by standing next to a wireless power rod! Imagine powering your TV or electric appliance without the nuisance of almost being strangled by numerous wires in your sleep(laptop chord),  I know i have used up my 9 lives on this.  Anyway let [...]

The Power of Statistics to save lives & money

Statistics is essential in understanding problems as well as providing solutions. The question is we find them boring if not tiresome, but thankfully here is a new way to look at them. Play around with this website [Click Here] and see where it went wrong for Kenya on all indicators. The models says 1989, I [...]

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