Since the success of Groupon and LivingSocial, which are group buying sites that blend in e-commerce and the ubiquity of social media there have been several clones sprouting faster than the original companies can expand. The reason why the clones flourish just as much as the originals would is tha...

Kenya’s first Tech Show, Tech Junkie is set to air on KTN very soon as overheard on Twitter earlier in the month. Well, if you are a fan of Click, on BBC, or Tech@Work, on CNBC Africa, then, bringing the action closer home just makes it all the more exciting and relevant! Romour has it that th...

There will be a Skunkworks Meetup on the 2nd of February 2010. This will be the first meeting this year, and it’s an honor that we will be discussing iHub, Nairobi’s new Tech Innovation Hub… The meeting will be coordinated by Erik Hersman, who is a co-founder at Ushahidi (www.usha...

In June, 2004, the CISSP was the first information security credential accredited by ANSI ISO/IEC Standard 17024:2003 accreditation, and, as such, has led industry acceptance of this global standard and its stringent requirements. The CISSP CBK Review Seminar and CISSP Examination is scheduled to ta...

The newly acquired MIT Fablab at the University of Nairobi’s Science and Technology Park is a unique and exciting design environment created to encourage innovation. The Fablab is equipped with mostly table-top CNC machines will serve as a rapid prototyping center in the Science Park’s business ...

A mobile boot camp is a crash-course session usually spanning 2 – 3 days, whereby participants will gain insights on mobile application development as well as acquire practical skills on the use of current platforms, frameworks and tools used for the development of mobile applications. Strathmore ...