I just found out that Orange Kenya launched its mobile web portal earlier this week. The service which has been named “Orange World” is only accessible to Orange Kenya subscribers and requires mobile web enabled handsets in order to access it. The portal will be free to Orange Kenya subscribers

According to Reuters, Michael Jackson has just broken digital music download records over the past week since his death was announced. Michael Jackson is the first musician ever to sell over 1 million music downloads in a week. For the full story, go here>

In the news today, Orange Kenya plans to launch a mobile money transfer service to compete with Safaricom’s M-Pesa and Zain Kenya’s Zap services. Specific details as to when Orange Kenya plans to launch its mobile money transfer service have not been provided  as yet. Mobile money transfers in Kenya