Goodbye BlackBerry Internet Service, African market could look elsewhere

It became apparent as Rory O'Neill, Vice President  of Product & Channel Marketing at BlackBerry, was answering questions related to the BIS service on the BB10 phones and on BB 7 based smartphones.

BlackBerry (BBRY) announced at yesterday’s launch that the new smartphones based on the BB10 platform will not support the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS).

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Google, Storyful launch Kenyan Elections YouTube Channel

Google, in conjunction with Storyful have launched a YouTube channel for the upcoming Kenyan Elections. The move was announced Thursday afternoon in a Google Hangout that featured Kenyan Media, Ory Okolloh - Google Policy and Government Relations Manager for Sub-Sahara Africa, content creators behind the Ghana Elections YouTube channel and Storyful offices in Dublin.

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Affordable tablets set to hit the Kenyan market

HCL Infosystems promised to debut three ME Tablets namely U2, V1 and Y3. The U2 tablet, which will measure 7 inches and run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, will be the cheapest, retailing at around US$109.

“The Tab has an integrated front camera for video chat. The tablet also carries a powerful GPU and 1GB DDR3 RAM which enables one to enjoy smooth 2D/3D graphics gaming,” the company said, adding that the tab has an 8GB internal memory, expandable to 32GB.
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Kaspersky in East Africa, Kenya.

Kaspersky Lab opened a new office in Kenya; the company justifies this to the phenomenon growth of internet penetration in East Africa. Bethwel Opil, the Channel Sales Manager for Kaspersky Lab East Africa referring to Communication Commission of Kenya, (CCK’s) report at the end of 2010, says Kenya had 8.8 million internet users, currently 17.3 million internet users’ exist, and this has been reported with the majority of them accessing the internet on their mobile devices.
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21 Windows Phone Apps Stores Open Across Africa

Microsoft announced the opening of 37 web Stores for apps and games around the world, which now includes several African countries.
The stores will enable African users of Windows Phone devices to buy, download and access a large number of apps and games.  The African countries that have been granted access are Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo (DRC), Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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VMK unveils Congo designed Elikia Android smartphone at $170

Features:
The device has a 3.5 inch (and 480 x 320) display as well as 512MB of RAM, a 650MHz processor, 5 megapixel rear/front VGA cameras and FM radio. It also has its own app store and prepaid gift cards for app lovers. Through its hotspot wi-fi functionality, users can connect up to 5 wi-fi devices.
Elikia provides a budget smartphone option for Congolese and Africans alike.
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Kenya's professional Web Design and Development

Digital Web Crafts
One of the best and most credible professional web builders, managing to link professionals to the corporate and social world creating an atmosphere of online business presence.

Caroline Kibe, founder of Digital Web Crafts, a web designer and social media consultant, and her trusted team discusses all of your project details, objectives, and delivery time frames making sure the client/customer is satisfied.

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ICT for Africa 2013, Harare Zimbabwe

The International Conference on ICT for Africa is an annual conference that brings together stakeholders of the educational and industrial sectors in Africa, with the aim of reflecting on how to transfer, diffuse and adopt the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) within the African context; the innovation and development of ICT solutions for and within this context; impacts of ICT on society and of society on ICT; and other relevant normative, empirical, and theoretical concerns of ICT development, implementation, strategy, management and policy that are distinctive to Africa and associated developing economies.

The conference’s objective is to highlight the synergy of collaboration between African countries and other developing countries, and between African countries and the developed countries towards ICT advancements and also towards development solutions for Africa. It creates a forum where participants can disseminate their research to a wide audience of scholars and practitioners of ICT in Africa and beyond.The 2013 conference, to be held in Harare, Zimbabwe from the 20th to the 23th of February 2013.

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