M-Pesa scooped yet another award this to add to its large cabinet of awards. The Best Mobile Money Service Award was handed to Safaricom for M-Pesa’s success and innovative penetration to the market. M-Pesa has received quite a number of awards since its inception and served over 5 million Kenyans in the last year alone.

For a man like Michael Joseph who according to me is a strategist who knows what steps to take and when to do it, it appears rather unfair that competitors might face easier terms to roll out 3G services within the country.

I have to say this, you never know what you have til you do not have it anymore. Good customer service is one of the things we take for granted and sincerely, it takes quite a lot to achieve it. A while ago calling Safaricom customer service was really hard and if you got through, you would stay on hold for quite some time. That seems to have changed for the better and I can stand and testify on behalf of Safaricom.

Safaricom and Equity bank have moved a step higher to strengthen their working relationship by introducing new ATM withdraw for M-Pesa through the Equity Bank ATM network. Equity Bank, Kenya’s largest bank in the aspect of account holders joins hand with Kenya’s largest money transfer service. Currently, M-Pesa has over 8 million users while Equity [...]

Well, the ever growing unlimited email storage on google is now a thing of the past. You still have your free account but now you need to pay for anything above 20GB. The plans are between $5 and $256 per year although the storage is quite big compared to other services. Below is the pricing [...]

Being a web developer for more than 8 years has taught me quite a number of things and given me some experiences that I am not sure I want to witness in the near future while at the same time its given me quite a lot to learn and use in the future. One of [...]

If you are web/mobile application developer in Africa, you have a great chance to win the $125,000 set aside for African developers by Nokia and get to sell your product on the Ovi store.
“We’re inviting all mobile and web application developers to create best-in-class applications to run on Nokia devices. This competition is aimed at [...]

Majibu.com is on and its getting into motion with a big bang! We have just announced a Blackberry 8100 give away for 3 Users who will be the first to reach 5000 points on our new question and answer blog. To enroll, you need to be a member by signing up at http://majibu.com/register and its [...]

Majibu, Swahili for answers has unveiled its new question and answer website which starts running today, 17th August 2009. A walk through it shows a lot of adaptation of Yahoo! Answers, probably the most famous question and answer website. This launch narrows the reach for the African, making it easy to find questions and answers [...]

A new website offering free SMS within East Africa went live yesterday, or so I seem to think. Rahasms.com to me seems to work like previously running sms websites which somehow shut down at some point. You register, activate account, activate number and there you are, 5 SMS messages to any mobile network in East [...]