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iHUB: Motivation
Skunkworks was conceived with the idea of bring together Nairobi (and Kenyan) techies together and really kicked off in early 2007. From the onset we had the idea of having a central location where guys could come in and utilize fast internet, access local servers to test out their applications while bouncing off ideas with […]
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Strathmore University hosted an open session where a few interesting projects done by people around the skunkworks community got presented. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (who by the way invented the WWW) was the chief guest. Among the projects were: pesapal done by Liko Agosta – Verviant jahazi done by Mugambi – VST iScribe + Afrinnovator by […]
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Phillip M. Verges – Founder & CEO of New Market Technology Inc had some interesting thoughts on fund raising as well as the unique position that Kenya, and Africa at large has as an emerging market. Investors are not investing in your success (I have never looked at startup funding from this point of view […]
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Kai’s definition of true broadband – being able to do what you want, when you want to online, and without bandwidth restriction. He is on a mission to (hopefully?) change the market’s perception of data operators as being out make money of the common mwananchi at all costs. On local content he likened the submarine […]
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Revamped macbook
It looks like Apple have revamped their macbooks. http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html They certainly look good now… @ $999 It cannot be a coincidence that this is just before Microsoft releases Windows 7…
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The last few months has seen activity with several notable entries into the online classifieds space: N-SOKO – Done by the Nation Media Group (which unfortunately is rather graphics/flash heavy and thus mobile unfriendly). The fact that they already have a sizeable online audience makes many sellers flock there. Kenyan Craiglist – It remains to […]
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iWarrior
Hash has a new post on iWarrior, possibly one of the first games developed in Africa for the iPhone.
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Dr Ndemo @ Skunkworks
The PS for Information and Communication did a talk at the 4th Aug meeting at Telposta towers 4th floor. There was also Joe Mucheru (Google Lead, EA) and Bret Bullington, a VC working in the Silicon Valley. Quite an interesting talk and discussion thereafter, with lots of challenging and thought provoking remarks from Dr Ndemo. […]
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Android part II
Looks like the next major release of the android platform is coming out soon with a few interesting features: This are some of the user features I’m looking forward to.. Faster Camera start-up and image capture Much faster acquisition of GPS location (powered by SUPL AGPS) On-screen soft keyboard SIM Application Toolkit 1.0 (think MPESA, […]
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Android Review
I’ve got to play with the world’s first android based phone, and it’s been quite interesting. The good: Loads and loads of applications on the market, a good number of them for free. Among my favorites: Astrid – task list that’s more than just that APNDroid – Easy turn off/on your data connection stays on […]
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