In two full page ads in today’s editions of the Daily Nation and the East African Standard, Zain has announced unprecedented low and permanent tariffs for both mobile calls and SMS messages to ALL networks in Kenya. In a move that is clearly geared towards wooing a large number of

This is a feature by Kevin Mwachiro that was aired on the BBC last month covering the growth of IT in Kenya as well as outsourcing. In the feature, Ushahidi’s Ory Okolloh and I had been interviewed for the same on issues such as social media, crowd sourcing and the

I’ve been waiting for this news for sometime and its finally here! Samsung today launched the much anticipated and bada-powered Samsung Wave handset (S8500) in conjunction with Safaricom in Kenya. The Samsung Wave is the first mobile handset to be released on Samsung’s new, open mobile platform, bada, which is