African Pixel whose founder Bwana Wilfred Mworia is a common face in the Kenyan tech scene has just hit the AppStore…Iphone App store for that matter (there are so many stores popping up all over) with iScribe which brings old school journalism to the new age of mobility and the internet. Making it simple to capture life’s moments in a fun way and on the move. You don’t have to wait to get back home to record the experience. You can capture it as it happens – in text, voice, images and video!

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If you can send a text message of 160 characters then why not send a message with 1,000 characters? This was the question Mr. Mbugua Njihia and his CTO, Mr.Idd Salim sought to answer in late 2008.

Business Daily spoke with Mr. Mbugua Njihia – Chief Executive Officer, Symbiotic Media at their Kilimani offices on the introduction of East Africa’s first mobile social network, Sembuse, which was launched in July this year.

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That Roach Game – South Africa

Squashing bugs has never been this much fun!
• The bugs speak 4 out of the 11 official languages of SA
• Using the touch screen and vibrations as those creatures invade your screen
• Share your scores by uploading
• Chat with people
• It is seriously addictive!

I think if it were done locally, the likes of Motein Doom or Ridsect would do product placement or outright game branding continue reading »

20Fourlabs, the innovation and applications division within Cape Town-based 24.com, walked away with the top honours last night in the Nokia Africa Calling All Innovators app competition. Their entry, Afridoctor, won the $85 000 first prize beating 125 other entries from developers all over Africa.

Afridoctor is Africa’s first personal mobile health clinic, turning your phone into a powerful first aid information kit, a doctor-location service, and an emergency distress notifier. Its revolutionary “SnapDiagnosis” system allows users to submit photos of their ailments and remotely receive advice from a panel of professionals. Afridoctor’s mapping feature enables users to find doctors, clinics and all health industry related services within their proximity. continue reading »

“The second highest number of entries overall, after those received from South African developers, came from Kenya.”

Nokia, last night, 7 December 2009, announced the overall winner of its Calling All Innovators competition. 20FourLabs, developers of winning application Afridoctor, won over R600,000 following the announcement that took place in Melrose, Johannesburg.The competition, launched in July this year, called for developers to generate applications and solutions relevant to South African and African consumers.

Category winners were recognized at the Calling All Innovators Awards reception and the total cash and prize value of over R1 million was awarded to the top ten application developers. In addition, winning application, Afridoctor, is currently available on Nokia’s Ovi Store.

Over 125 submissions were received during the competition period, mainly from Africa. Although the competition called for applications relevant to the South African environment a large number of entries were received from developers in other countries including Pakistan, Germany, US, India and Bahrain. The second highest number of entries overall, after those received from South African developers, came from Kenya. continue reading »

Uganda Telecom through the Audit and Risk Section is evaluating competent firms to provide the following service,

IMMEDIATELY:

•IT/IS Audit
•IT/IS Security Penetration Testing and Security Flaws Fixing
•IT/IS Ethical Hacking Training
•IT/IS BCP Training
•Telecom Platform Penetration Testing (IN, Switch, SMS Server and Related)

and Related services, if any of you guys out there can provide this service, a need a presentation this week (starting 7th Dec 09) get in touch with me for additional info, kindly don’t engage me if  you can not make it physically for a presentation.

Most of you probably saw this this as you logged onto your Facebook today but I bet 98%  went straight to their status update. Here are Mark Zuckerberg’s regurgitated ramblings.

It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online.

To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information. Starting with the very first version of Facebook five years ago, we’ve built tools that help you control what you share with which individuals and groups of people. Our work to improve privacy continues today.

Facebook’s current privacy model revolves around “networks” — communities for your school, your company or your region. This worked well when Facebook was mostly used by students, since it made sense that a student might want to share content with their fellow students.
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Kai Wullf, CEO Kenya Data Networks gives a talk at Skunkworks meetup in Nairobi at the Multimedia University. Subject of talk was: Fibre is here…so what!