By Kenya Today On february the 4th, Google rolled out one of it’s infamous pagerank updates. The last round dates from november 2012. Pagerank is an indication of internet authority and is of utmost importance for webmasters, for it mediates the rankings in Google. Are you a website owner? Quickly check out how february’s pagerank …
Sales of smart tech devices are soaring as the traditional PC declines. Observer writers look at their impact, which is already helping children to learn, spreading literacy, improving healthcare, boosting harvests in Africa – and making the web giants sit up
Turkana women examine photos of a festival rehearsal on a laptop in Loiyangaleni, Kenya. Photograph: David Mbiyu/Demotix/Corbis BY: David Smithin Nairobi for guardian.co.uk,Tuesday 30 October 2012 16.41 GMT Fibre optic cable delivering revolutionary change was laid while African neighbours were booking hotels for more talking shops If there is such a thing as an African …
‘Trashtalk’: Apple’s Phil Schiller launches the iPad Mini last week… with a swipe at the competition. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images BY:John Naughton for The Observer, Sunday 28 October 2012 Apple, Google and now Microsoft are slugging it out in the battle to sell us tablet computers. And the competition can only be a good thing …
Whether it’s tracking locusts or government spending, west Africa’s hi-tech firms are finding new solutions to social problems
With features including Siri, turn-by-turn navigation, new maps, a panoramic camera, 4G, restore to iCloud and a new digital dock, the iPhone 5 has it all – and it is ahead of the competition again
BY: Geoffrey Manono The government’s strategic plan ‘vision 2030’ singles out Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) as one of the six pillars to drive the country to a medium developed economy. In the short run the government aims at achieving a top three position as a BPO destination in Africa. The government has taken key steps …
ICT hub will promote foreign investment and domestic growth, says Kenyan vice-president eyeing top job in March elections
BY: Ally Carnwath writing for the guardian.co.uk, Friday 24 August 2012. Juliana Rotich’s groundbreaking website Ushahidi has helped ordinary Africans take control of their lives Juliana Rotich chuckles down the line from Nairobi at the suggestion that she is one of the people helping to shape a new image of Africa. “Well, I’m a big nerd,” …
Judge from Oracle-Google trial says that search giant must provide more information about anyone who might have been paid indirectly to comment on trial