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The other day I got an invite to visit .co.za (South Africa) registry and given my following or obsession over domains in Africa, I could not miss a chance, even if its just for the sake of writing a blog…
I have been a proponent of buying African domains- .ke, .tz .za etc this is well demonstrated by the number of posts on this blog, over the years. There is a lot of controversy but thats not the topic for…
The movies have done a good job of showing us what young men do to make money in NY. I had a chance to meet a group of hilarious street dancers/acrobats. Then they started dancing to rap and making jokes…
A few weeks ago I travelled to New York and had a chance to play tourist. Because I couldn’t go see caged animals and I am not a fan of museums and that kind of stuff, I decided to do…
When I read that Nokia was down grading its Nairobi office to just the sales office, I wasn’t shocked, it was a matter of when not if. But I expected the changes to be more mild. I started thinking of…
Often I get questions on how one can be a blogger, writer, make money from blogging etc… I usually respond to questions directly but most of them require one-on-one lengthy sessions, so they may not be as sufficient as I…
When the idea of a $100 laptop was first floated, I think around 2003, it was a great thing…a laptop for $100? Well, the idea was One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). The first laptop that came out of that line…
In December 2004, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers held its first meeting in Africa. It came from the call for ICANN to demonstrate that it was international enough, and what better way than to rotate the meetings…
This week, Nairobi hosted more than 1,000 delegates to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. For the five days, the UN complex in Gigiri had acquired a new language, with words like cyber security, privacy, internet freedom, critical internet resources,…
This week, Orange and Safaricom were busy launching higher speeds on the 3G network. As usual, Safaricom was the first to launch and few days later Orange did. Safaricom invite said that the speeds were increasing from 14 megabits per…