Business News

Tweet   By Matunda Nyanchama, PhD click here for a pdf version of this article. On January 17th, 2012 Kenyans woke up to news of desecration of a number of government websites. A hacker has taken liberty to expose the weaknesses in the security of government systems, reportedly after a short tutorial. The hacker, coming [...]

Young, gifted and crooked: Hi-tech fraud soars in EA nb: see original article from the East African at this link Tweet The young technophile and the finance savvy guy, who has worked for one organisation for several years, is the apple of any human resource manager’s eye. In Summary Employee training: Focus on training employees [...]

Note this is from Marcus Evans. Contact: meke6@marcusevanske.com ………………………… HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP MASTER CLASS Advancing executive leadership and management skills for outstanding organizational performance 8TH-10TH FEB 2012, TRIBE HOTEL NAIROBI, KENYA   Your Expert Course Facilitator: Dr. Morne Mostert He is the Director of Leadership, Leadership Options, South Africa and the creator of Systemic Leadership Learning (SLL) Theory. He [...]

Africa banking on mobile to be first post-PC continent Projects driving online penetration are focused more on mobile devices than on PCs Rebecca Wanjiku 06 April, 2011 02:13 A convergence of historical circumstance and an increase in innovative mobile applications may make Africa the first post-PC continent. Low investment in wired telecommunication infrastructure has driven [...]

Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar  This article appeared on the Al Jazeera website A cyberwar is brewing, and Anonymous reprisal attacks on HBGary Federal shows how deep the war goes. Haroon Meer Last Modified: 10 Mar 2011 16:11 GMT After Anonymous hacked into HBGary’s network and published over 71,000 private emails, signs of a brewing [...]

This article first appeared in the Daily Nation of January 3rd, 2030. By JOE MUCHERUPosted Monday, January 3 2011 at 18:00 In Summary Among other areas, advertisers will take advantage of direct link between offline events and subsequent surge in online search In light of the mushrooming ICT evolution and innovation experienced in Kenya over the past two years, as [...]

11th – 14th May 2010, Sarova Whitesands Beach Resort, Mombasa, Kenya GLOBAL BEST PRACTICES TO ENHANCE CYBER SECURITY & PROTECT CRITICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURES & ASSETS ACROSS AFRICA PROG 5 – ICT Security Africa Summit – May 2010 Kenya _CISO Summit Africa Opening Keynote Speeches Confirmed By: Dr. Bitange Ndemo, PhD, CBS, Permanent Secretary, Office of [...]

Kenyan Safaricom extends money transfers to Britain Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:18am EDT By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura NAIROBI, Oct 13 (Reuters) – Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom (SCOM.NR) extended its money transfer service to Britain on Tuesday and may roll it out to other countries. The service – known as M-Pesa – transfers over 600 million shillings [...]

9th – 11th February 2010 Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa NEPAD ICT Africa Summit 2010 is a NEPAD Council and NEPAD Secretariat continental Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) event addressing a wide range of ICT issues in Africa. Building on the successes of the last three NEPAD ICT Africa Summits, NEPAD [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya/TORONTO, Canada – Monday May 18, 2009. A partnership agreement for Information Security Training has been reached between Canadian-based Agano Consulting Inc and Nairobi-based K-Ninety East Africa Ltd (K-90EA). The deal was reached between Dr. Matunda Nyanchama of Agano Consulting Inc. and Mr. Preston Odera of K-90EA. The two companies will collaborate to bring [...]