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Kenyan innovators have a chance to showcase their prowess in a new challenge co-sponsored by phone-maker Nokia, infoDev and Capgemini.

Creators of the 3 best ideas will be invited to the second Open Innovation Africa Summit 2012 (OIAS2) to be held in Nairobi from May 28-30 2012 to share their thoughts with ‘respected thought leaders.’

Dubbed ‘Ideas to Innovation’ the global competition seeks to get societal, structural, financial and technological ideas that will help foster innovation leadership in Africa. Read more…

Global telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a technology that would be a game changer in mobile telephony across Kenya.

Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio technology which the company has officially introduced in the Kenyan market aims to render the towering base transmitting stations (antennae masts) obsolete.
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What a shame to molest the woman

This is an eye-opening video for journalists keen on online journalism. Mindy McAdams bares it all. Enjoy the viewing

Online journalism around the world from Mindy McAdams on Vimeo.

THE 7th annual technology conference, East Africa Com, opens in Nairobi on Tuesday, 17th April. The Information Technology summit runs from 17- 18 of April in Nairobi where the Exhibition aims to give delegates an overview of all the latest “need to know” topics on the world’s foremost technology and solution providers. Read more…

Thirty percent of the total spectrum allocated for radio broadcasting and twenty three percent of frequencies allocated for TV broadcasting in Kenya are not on air.
This means the current usage of frequencies for broadcasting is not fully efficient as there is demand for spectrum from other broadcasters.
According to the results of a study carried out on behalf of the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) by Deloitte the Free To Air (FTA) TV market is not fully competitive particularly in terms of viewing share.
The roll out of Digital platform is expected to remedy the non-competitiveness through increased capacity and thus reduce barriers to entry in the FTA market. Read more…

Residents of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi can now enjoy high quality digital broadcasting.

The DVB T2 (The digital broadcasting technology adopted by the Kenya government) signal is now on air in Nairobi, and will soon be available in other parts of the country.

Around Nairobi, the signal can be received in Ngong, Kajiado, parts of Machakos, Kiambu, Thika, parts of Muranga, and some parts of Embu.
The Government today announced that by July 2012, the DVB T2 digital TV signal would be available in 70% of the count Read more…

Safaricom has embarked on a two and half months tour in five major towns to promote its high speed internet access -3G and grow its data service.
The tour which is set to kick off on April 14th will run up to June 31st is being done in partnership with Qualcomm- provider of wireless chipsets and software technologies which powers all 3G devices and will cover Nairobi, Mombasa, Thika, Nakuru and Kisumu.
Safaricom’s chief executive officer Bob Collymore said the tour will allow Safaricom subscribers to test-drive 3G devices and experience rich content and speedy internet access. Read more…

The Lower Indian Ocean Network submarine cable (LION2) operated by Telkom Kenya, a subsidiary of the France Telecom Group, has gone live.
Telkom Kenya Chief Executive Mr. Mickhael Ghossein said LION2, whose laying cost over Ksh 5.7 billion (57 million Euros), is now operational and will significantly boost Kenya’s bandwidth capacity. Read more…