Oberthur Technologies, a global provider of embedded security software products and services, has announced that its embedded Secure Element, PEARL BY OT ®, is the first eSE worldwide to be certified by Visa, MasterCard and Amex for biometric-compliant payment applets (VISA VMPA v1.4, MasterCard MCM v1.1 and AMEX v2.0), as well as by OSPT Alliance (CIPURSE™ V2) for urban transport applications and value added services, making it the most advanced multi-application eSE on the market. Launched in January 2016, PEARL 800K Classic v4 adds to the family of PEARL by OT® already deployed worldwide in 225Mu+ flagship smartphones. PEARL by…
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CyberSecurity experts have highlighted the need for insurance and banking services sector in the country to enhance the pace of deployment of secure ICT practices in their organizations. According to ICT security company, ESET East Africa, the recent spike in cases of cyber attacks and breaches in the financial services sector is attributable to the slow pace of implementation of ICT security protocols. Speaking at the quarterly CIO East Africa industry breakfast, Alistair Freeeman, Chief Executive Officer, ESET East Africa, said there still exists a huge gap between the speed banks and insurance companies are deploying technology solutionate at “We have…
By NBM Correspodent Three years ago, Edward Chege established a company that later started dealing in the transport of building materials and brokerage for real estate investors. During that time, people would complain of counterfeits of different building materials, loss of personal items and insecurity mostly at the site. This, he later realized, was due to lack of proper identification of workers and mixing up of professionals with unskilled workers. “Usually at a building site, people report in the morning to look for jobs. Some claim to have some expertise in housing which they don’t. This leads to theft, loss…
Pan-African telecoms enabler SEACOM has extended corporate market offering to the East African region by providing enhanced broadband connectivity and cloud services directly to corporates, under its SEACOM Business initiative. Since the launch of a similar product offering a year ago in South Africa, the division in East Africa has already signed up almost 50 business customers, adding more each month. It has also recently appointed several corporate partners to support its drive into the SME market, and expects to speed up its total corporate customer acquisitions going forward. “We have only had positive feedback from our South African clients…
KDK Company Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic Eco Solutions Division, Japan, has launched its latest range of ventilation equipment targeting the current thriving property market, to provide modern, efficient, effective ventilation engineering system solutions and products. With the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems market in Africa set to cross $800 billion by 2022, the demand for indoor air quality improvement systems is expected to grow further. It is against this backdrop that the manufacturers of high-performance ventilation fan products, KDK, is well positioned to get a pie of the market thanks to a 107 year history, having…
This year’s World Breastfeeding Week celebrations aimed at the attainment of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number three is casting a wider net on breastfeeding and improving nutrition. It is against this backdrop that Kenyan Parliament seeks to ease infant feeding framework by enacting law in support of breastfeeding. Speaking at the second edition of the Nestle Nutrition Institute Africa (NNIA) conference, Seme Member of Parliament, Dr James Nyikal who is also a member of the Health committee, echoed the need for a law to mainstream the act of breastfeeding across the country and ensure mothers in both…
BY KEVIN GIKONYO Dr John Pombe Magufuli, popularly known as “The Bulldozer” in his country, is living up to his nickname, barely a year into his presidency. The 57 year old, doctorate of chemistry scholar from the University of Dare salaam, was elected on a promise to transform the economy by increasing youth employment, reducing corruption, providing of free secondary and primary education amongst other CCM (Chama Cha Mapinduzi) country reforms agenda. Magufuli’s seventh month “leadership chemistry” has managed to lock in major East African projects and unsettled Kenya as the main economic reference, in regards to infrastructural deals. Kenya…
Ambassador Amina Mohammed’s clarification that Kenya had in fact not signed a specific Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ethiopia for a pipeline but only for general energy concerns has been viewed as another public relations gaffe in recent times by the Jubilee administration. Many observers are beginning to find these mistakes extremely harmful to the performance of foreign policy. Theoretically this could contribute to age-old debates as to whether external relations should be as per tradition a strict closed matter or whether it should adapt to various public engagements as required in democratic practice of government. What is clearly emerging…
BY BENARD AYIEKO Kenya has changed. Devolution is a reality. The Constitution has brought in significant changes in the social, economic and political landscape of East Africa’s biggest economy. With a GDP of $63.121 billion, GDP per capita of $1,432, economic growth of 5.6% recorded last year and a population of nearly 45 million people providing ready market for goods and services, the country is currently strategically placed to attract more Foreign Direct Investments. Kenya’s GDP accounts for 40% of the region’s GDP, followed by Tanzania at 28%, Uganda at 21%, Rwanda at 8% and Burundi at 3%. With such…
SHADRACK MUYESU Talk about fancy holiday getaways, vintage handbags, even a skin formula, a woman has needs, immediate needs. And there is no better way to cure them than to pursue a new “social entrepreneurship portfolio that creative Liberals have conjured up which thus far has demonstrated maximum benefit at minimum cost. The only problem is that, heavily reliant on the fickle entities of a lookable face and a fierce physique, this type of entrepreneurship doesn’t offer much in terms of a proper retirement plan. That the culture of disciplined saving for a “rainy” day is not an innate human…