When Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile network operator opted to “aid” the growth of innovation in Kenya by initiating a process for welcoming and working with Vendors and Premium Rate Service Providers, you would be excused to think that there is a brighter future for developers in this East African nation. I beg to differ. There seems to be a problem that cannot be ignored.

In an open letter on flash Steve Jobs explicitly explains why Apple has decided to ditch Flash. Previous comments came out as Apple looking like the Kettle that calls the Pot black but this letter is as sobering as can be.

Nokia today announced that it will now be offering version 3.03 and higher of Ovi Maps free forever. This is a welcome move the Finnish based mobile phone maker has made. With an estimated 27 million users using their mobile handsets for GPS Navigation on both Walk-to and Drive-by navigation, this number would be expected [...]

Michael “Monty” Widenius, the founder and creator of MySQL, who now runs Monty Program Ab has been for long battling hard to save MySQL from the impending rot it could suffer under the hands of Oracle. The story goes that Oracle plans to acquire Sun Microsystems who apparently owns MySQL after purchasing it a few [...]

Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services has been introduced by Nokia It  has been designed to be as simple and convenient as making a voice call or sending an SMS. It will enable consumers to send money to another person just by using the [...]

This is another one of the tech stories that is managing to pull out a lot of mixed reactions from all corners. Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems better know for its java programming language came agreement to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share. This deal came after IBM pulled out of talks to buy Sun. [...]

It’s been two to three months since the last update here. It has not been because of untimely vacations or sorts. Sobbayi Interactive has been working on the new Digital Photo Service for the past few months if not a year (No one seems to remember). This is a service that is to evolve around [...]

The count down for the new look House of Grace website finally begins. The current interface had some challenges, which needed to be address. There are a few user requests coupled with plain bugs that needed to be fumigated before the New Year begins. The church will be celebrating its fifth anniversary next month and [...]

After some heartfelt consideration, SI undertook the responsibility designing and developing the House of Grace Church Website. The website has been available online for about 2 months now. I was charged with developing the site on the fly. Right from start, the site had to go up despite the fact that 97% of the content [...]

As the new year draws into the end of the first quarter, in line with our on going project growth, we have been behind closed doors strategizing about the direction we want to go into next. Quite a bit has emerged from these sessions. The ideas about this news item are really to enlighten you [...]