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As part of Project Beacon, Google has been sending free beacons to businesses aimed at improving mobile visibility and customer experience. This has been very random, to the best of my knowledge, so if you haven’t received one for your business please do not go on a riot or accuse Google of bias. If you received this package from Google, this article is not for you. You already know what a beacon is, and how Beacon Technology works to the favor of your business. If you weren’t lucky enough to receive one, I will use this platform to introduce you to ...

Stand in any street of Nairobi, whether in the CBD or in the residential estates, and you will certainly read idleness and desperation on the faces of the majority of people – most of them young people – who trooped into the city from their villages in search of unavailable jobs. And hey, as you stand there, hold fast your valuables (in fact, conceal them as much as you can) because the menace of youth unemployment has brought with it a surge of crime cases, lest you be relieved...

A few weeks ago (on 14th October 2021, to be precise), in yet another classic episode, the Government of Kenya was badly humiliated by the high court. The Huduma Namba was declared illegal for conflicting with the Data Protection Act. Kenyans, starting with me, were (and continue to be) very excited about this. We just can't wait for more of these entertaining shows. And telling from the the Attorney General's reaction after the ruling, we are...

Last month (October 2021) was the CyberSecurity Awareness Month. One thing that has remained in our minds as cyber-security enthusiasts is the memorable Do Your Part campaign christened with the hash-tag #BeCyberSmart. This campaign has been very timely, and it comes against the backdrop of skyrocketing cases of cyber-bullying, hacking and other cyberspace security breaches. Led by the American Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), “Do Your Part...

Perhaps in place of Intelligent Intrusion Detection System I should be talking about Cyber-security AI, but that is a very broad topic that cannot fit in this short article. Therefore, as time and space has allowed me today, I will narrow down to the specific subject of intrusion detection systems, their evolution to intelligent intrusion detection Systems, and why every organization should deploy one on its network and IT infrastructure. In the simplest terms, an Intrusion Detection Systems or just IDS…

You purchased a brand new computer; hyper – threaded i5 or i7 with a clock speed of 2.9 GHz quad core, a whole 8 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disk. In the initial months your machine was incredibly fast (of course as you expected). Opening 20 tabs of Mozilla firefox browser simultaneously never interfered with the speed, and even the RAM and CPU hogging google chrome had no effect on the efficiency of your computer. You would play games at any time of the day, not worrying about the display on the task manager, and regardless of how many applications...

I am many things in this life; a scientist, a farmer, a teacher, and whenever am all alone in my house, a dancer. In fact, the other day I danced so well to myself that I started fantasizing winning a dancing contest. I also fancy myself an athlete. Anyway, a couple of months ago I entered a final year computer science class to find excited students waiting for me. I teach Artificial intelligence (AI) and few other subjects, but among the subjects I teach AI has always seemed to excite students most. Well, I took the curious students through the introduction of this...

2022 Kenya general elections are here with us. ‘Here with us’, not because they are in a few weeks or even months’ time, but because of the heated campaign activities that are becoming the order of the day all over the country, in a very fervent way. Now, during this period of political agitation, you watch the TV news and deep in a far-flung Kenyan market, the area rabble-rouser or the head of a local car wash is railing against a foreseen election rigging, and he is categorically warning the iebc and the government of the day against meddling with...