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Kenya: Publisher suspends two magazine titles

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:00 +0200

East African Magazines (EAM) announced early last week the suspension of Adam and Twende. Adam is slightly over two years in the market and was targeted at the male readership while Twende was a travel magazine.
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Kenyan journalist nominated for climate change award

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:02:00 +0200

Kenyan journalist Steve Mbogo from the Business Daily newspaper has been nominated as one of the 15 winners of various categories of the Earth Journalism Awards that rewards excellence in climate change reporting.
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Kenyan satirist ruffles politicians' feathers

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:37:00 +0200

NEWSWATCH: Kenyan satirist, Godfrey "Gado" Mwampembwa, is causing major waves amongst politicians in the East African country with his creation, The XYZ Show, according to Mail & Guardian Online.
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Kenya: Residential broadband service boosts company sales

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:02:00 +0200

AccessKenya Group, Kenya's first publicly-listed ICT company has announced that it has achieved its year-end customer target numbers nearly two months ahead of schedule. It has 3000 customers now signed up to its residential broadband service, Access@Home, and over 3100 customers contracted for its corporate broadband service, Broadband Max.
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FIFA World Cup trophy arrives in Kenya

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:42:00 +0200

NAIROBI: The Coca-Cola and FIFA World Cup Trophy has arrived in Kenya, where it was received by President Mwai Kibaki in the capital, Nairobi.
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Kenya: Westlands launch new road safety initiative

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:24:00 +0200

Celebrities and opinion leaders from various quarters of Kenyan society and diplomatic circles will attend the launch of Tame-A-Black Spot (TABS) road safety campaign, along Waiyaki Way/Museum Hill Roundabout, in Westlands, Kenya in December 2009.
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KDN subscribers enjoy more bandwidth

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:41:00 +0200

Kenya Data Networks have quadrupled its bandwidth offering for all its existing and new clients. This offer went into effect on Wednesday, 21 October 2009. Clients previously receiving 1Mbps now enjoy 4Mbps and only pay for 1Mbps and the other 3Mbps are offered free of charge.
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Refugees take on digital jobs

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:37:00 +0200

Refugees living at the world's largest makeshift camp in Kenya are being offered the opportunity to earn up to two US dollars an hour by participating in a digital pilot project.
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Mobile Internet revolution targets Africa's rural areas

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:29:00 +0200

After sweeping the urban population off its feet, the mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society, thanks to governments' ‘discriminatory' policies prioritising urban areas.
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Alvarion, Safaricom to deploy nationwide WiMAX network in Kenya

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:55:00 +0200

Alvarion has announced its selection by Kenyan mobile services provider Safaricom for a three-year turnkey WiMAX project to deploy high-speed broadband services throughout Kenya. Using Alvarion's BreezeMAX solution at 3.5 GHz frequency band, the WiMAX network will enable wireless broadband for residential and corporate users, rural areas, municipalities, banks, schools and universities.
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