Affordable, Basic, Cool… HD! For the average internet enthusiast, your social netwoks have become an irresistable pass-time and these can be nothing but boring if not for the capability to share experiences through digital media. I happened to meet John Kinyanjui of internews.org at a skunkwor...

Are you a graduating student looking for an internship or a job in the IT field? Are you a Microsoft Partner or Customer hoping to recruit students with the skills to meet the demands of today’s technology industry? Welcome to Microsoft Students to Business, a community initiative connecting Micr...

Since web 2.0 became real, most of web users are not necessarily geeks and few I know have experimented with Opera on the Desktop. Thought I’d share a trick I learnt that actually works(very few that I learn do… hehe).pera Turbo(Beta) is a server-side optimization and compression technol...

On the 14th May 2009, Ericsson Kenya will be hosting an Ericsson Experience Day at the Sarit Centre. The aim of this day is to showcase Ericsson as an employer of choice to undergraduates/graduates from nine universities across Nairobi. Their main objective is to secure 15 top calibre graduates who ...

New school GIS to the traditional mapper is ‘Business Unusual’ rather than ‘Business as usual’… This event was one of the highlights of my tech-calendar for ’09. Hosted at the ILRI Nairobi(Uthiru) Campus Grounds, WhereCamp, was the free unconference for geogeograp...

For the last one month I have been doing some research on the EV’s(Electric Vehicles) that are manufactured in the US and Europe to find out their best design criteria and approach. For those of you who missed this, De Uitvinders(The Inventors Foundation – Netherlands) in conjuction with Dev...

On the 10th of March 2009, students of the University of Nairobi held a demonstration across the Central Business District in protest of the murders of Oscar Kamau King’ara and John Paul Oulu (GPO, a student) of the Oscar Foundation that took place right in the campus grounds. These murders are a...

After a relatively long hiatus, I am determined not to abandon this forum for a while now. With my exams out of the way, I will do a round-up similar to the November post for purposes of catching-up. Here we go… Aga Khan University: Projected Arts and Sciences University in Tanzania Last month...

Forwarded by Alex Gakuruke-internetusers@bdix.nethttp://www.bdix.net/mailman/listinfo/ke-internetusers Folks, There’s a proposed law called “Freedom of Information” and a Bill hasbeen prepared to that effect. I understand this law will repeal archaic “Sirikali” (Officia...

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES TO THE KALASHAFILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS 2009WHAT IS KALASHA? The Kalasha Film and Television awards are the Kenya film and television awards designed toallow Kenyans to celebrate their cultural diversity through cinema and to recognize the role of film in the efforts to enhance...