Tandaa grant round 1 winners include: Ibid Labs, Octopus ICT Solutions, Infotrack Strategic Solution, Foundation Support Services, BTI Millman, RiverCross Technologies and JBA Advertising.
Kaburo and Lucy of the ICT Board are in charge of the Tandaa local digital content project.
Paul Kukubo, the captain of the ICT Board and a big technology evangelist and enthusiast, sporting [...]
The new photo sharing service, Rumbaa, launched last Friday at the GP-Karting grounds sandwiched between the Carnivore restaurant and the Wilson Airport in Nairobi. The service borrows a leaf from the South African service Thunda.
A bunch of guys called RumbaaDudes drive around in a pimped-ip Hummer taking professional photos at parties and clubs. The photographs [...]
Why can’t the first version of this iThingy be great? After waiting for so long, the market has to wait for version 3 or 4 to experience all the really cool stuff??
Has Steve Jobs lost his touch? Are those Apple guys now just geezers, past their prime? The iPad is disappointing! This is what I [...]
After several months of design, development and beta testing, the Ibid Labs marketing team has announced that the much awaited, web-based, business management software suite for SMEs, IBID, has been released.
Feature rich, simple-to-use, an elegant interface and user friendly language set IBID apart from similar systems often costing millions of shillings and out of reach for the thousands [...]
Any individual or business in Kenya that needs internet connectivity can now have it. This is a big deal! Prior to this year, it has not been so easy for the masses of home and SME business customers. At average prices of US$70 a month for basic speeds, it is still expensive, but considering how [...]
Several months ago, vuma.co.ke announced a new mobile music service endorsed by the Music Copyright Society of Kenya. I am still waiting for the service to be activated though I’ve heard that some of the music can be downloaded from the fledgling Safaricom Live mobile service. If you are fan of Kenyan Gospel and Zilizopendwa, [...]
Kenya, like the rest of Africa is going to have to make one quantum leap into the information age. No time for trying this Microsoft solution or that Oracle solution or whatever other systems the rest of the world has gotten used to.
Once the huge information and automation gap is narrowed there will be a [...]
Everybody was on chat. Emoticons, strange words like lol, btw, and chat marathons. Then Facebook happened. Facebook is chat and reality TV mixed into one. Big Brother in photos and text messages. While you chat, you can check out someones wall, send them cards, look at their videos, etc, etc. Facebook has become chewing gum [...]
Recent front page media reports about radio advertising trumping TV and newspaper advertising in Kenya demonstrate the strange predicaments businesses have to deal with in this part of the world.
The articles were mostly strong rationales (backed with ‘latest media research’) by cash rich radio stations and the media buying agencies that keep them alive in [...]
Kenya’s premier restaurant chain, Tamarind Group owns and manages 8 restaurants. Their flagship, Carnivore restaurant has become a mecca for meat lovers and the adjacent Simba Saloon is undoubtedly the hottest night club/disco/concert venue/bar destination in the region!
But how do you get punters shell-shocked from the global recession to dish out $20 for a basic meal and up to $4 for [...]
Martha Karua, not necessarily known for innovation and tech savviness has embraced Facebook as a platform to engage with her fans. The current discussion topic is……… and she has over 8,900 fans. Not bad. This puts her in the same league os Obama whose use of social media like Facebook made him quickly popular with [...]
The first version of mobile Banking in Kenya was hardly that. Most banks that claimed to offer that had a messy SMS notification service that required one to memorize a variety of codes, numbers, star this and hash that. Some banks even provided a user manual!
Mobile software and value added services provider, Cellulant has changed [...]
Its always refreshing to read, watch and listen to internet entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley talk about new innovations every day, Venture Capitalists talking about their latest investments, the financial and technology media talking about awesome new consumer or corporate internet services. It makes your head spin, giddy with optimism. It’s impressive and inspirational.
Its quite [...]
Fewer college grads have jobs than at any other time in recent memory—a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers annual student survey said that 20 percent of 2009 college graduates who applied for a job actually have one. So, what should the unfortunate 80% do?
How about a post-graduate year doing some [...]
Kenyan Internet services and online marketing hot shop, Ibid Labs, has gone live with a new corporate website. The new website is a showcase of great website design and corporate communications and looks awesome to boot.
The new website features clever use of banners to highlight their flagship products, integration with the company blogs and eNewsletter as [...]
We’re rapidly growing and just about to launch some internet products that will contribute to Kenya’s transformation into a knowledge-based economy.
1. Knowledge Executive: Ideal position for someone who loves blogging, writing, and coming up with ideas for internet based products. You will be responsible for maintaining the corporate knowledge library, product documentation, marketing and PR documentation [...]
We’re rapidly growing and just about to launch some internet products that will contribute to Kenya’s transformation into a knowledge-based economy.
1. Knowledge Executive: Ideal position for someone who loves blogging, writing, and coming up with ideas for internet based products. You will be responsible for maintaining the corporate knowledge library, product documentation, marketing and PR [...]
Firstly its the bad ads. Seriously…ye admen/women thats it? A bunch of smiley heads and a logo? And Orange has decided that a blackboard with a big 1/- will connect emotionally with me?
But the deals on Zain and Orange are great! So I’m changing. Lets all change in one move…call each other cheap, cheap.
Who’ll go [...]
Kenyan creative and web development lab, Ibid Labs, just unveiled the 3rd Dosika SMS, text-to-win experience to help WASP Africa raise funds for the conservation guys at Rhino Ark. This is the third version of the Dosika experience and so far the campaign has given away 4 Isuzu DMAX pickups and millions of shillings to [...]
The much anticipated redevelopment of Sub-Sahara’s premier online law reporting service, www.lawafrica.com finally made its public debut last week.
A completely redesigned search engine presents intuitive, ‘clustered’ search results quickly, from a variety of databases.
Law reporting will never be the same, this part of the world.
The law reports feature cases from the Kenyan, Ugandan Tanzania and [...]
Kenyan CDMA network operator and broadband provider needed a quick low cost way to reach over 50,000 targetted customers in the UK and US.
A traditional media campaign was out of the question.
So we customised the elegant, easy-to use-Tangaza eNewsletter and they were up and mailing in no time.
eNewsletter are a low cost way to get [...]
Safaricom, listen up! I’m a shareholder now!
Mobile TV just doesn’t seem to die. For years now, countless companies have said they will provide the “real” Mobile TV experience that will totally change the way we enjoy television.
Mobile TV is dead in the water.
Let’s figure out why it’s dead, shall we?
First off, the Slingbox [...]
For almost ten years now, we have been witnessing a decisive shift from client-server software to software as a service. Google, eBay, and Amazon.com established the value of multi-tenant internet applications in the consumer market, and salesforce.com, Google, and others have been proving that this same multi-tenant model is winning in the enterprise as well.
This [...]
According to a report, Microsoft isn’t just looking at the next version of Windows (no, not Mojave) for future OS possibilities, but is looking beyond the Windows architecture altogether with a project known as Midori. The new OS is still in the “incubation” phase (which puts it slightly closer to market than R&D projects), but [...]
Don’t call it a comeback! Less than 48 hours after voluntarily shutting down Scrabulous at the behest of Hasbro, the game’s creators have relaunched the popular application under the name Wordscraper. The new game was first spotted by on Pulse2.
Scrabulous founders Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla turned the game off in the US and Canada [...]
You are a founding CEO starting a company and you need help. Building your team is a complicated, tricky business.
You can be the best judge of character, you can do all the references (back door included), you can read all the books, you can even include your investors on the interview train, but you can [...]
Slywotzky and Morrison, management consultants and authors of The Profit Zone, return with guidance for companies that will increase their competitiveness and profitability by integrating the most appropriate technology into their strategic business design. Their concept, dubbed “Digital Business Design,” is “not about technology for its own sake; it’s about serving customers, creating unique value [...]
For 20 years I’ve watched the Discovery and National Geographic channels about the magnificent Rift Valley. When I got one of those Phillips, 42 inch, high definition LCDs I promised myself I’d have to see the real thing in person.
I first needed to figure out how to take a vacation without feeling guilty that I’m [...]
In my Nairobi office, we share a 64k connection between 40 or so people. Individual speeds hover around 1.5k per second.
Today, I drove up the Ngorongoro Hills for the first time in my life and the view of the crater almost knocked me down the other side! Whoo!
So after the business that brought me here, [...]
The San Jose Mercury News, the newspaper with circulation in the south part of the San Francisco Bay Area, has announced nine more layoffs in the newsroom by the end of the week, and an undisclosed number in its other departments.
The newspaper’s execs cited the tough economic climate.
This continues a remarkable downward spiral for the [...]
It’s old news, but my hat’s off to Mr William Gates who introduced computing to the masses! I hardly use Microsoft products nowadays, but I still have my hotmail account which I got back in ‘95!
Enjoy your new gig…saving the world!
For all you tech, cyber, innovation, design, web, games, PS2, PS3, animation, space travel and Star Trek fans…finally, a blog in the language of the masses from the good folks at Ibid Labs.
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