TVU Networks, the global technology and innovation leader in live IP video solutions, will debut TVU Producer, its powerful cloud-based video production solution at IBC 2018 (Stand: 2.B28). Part of TVU Network’s range of innovative remote production solutions, TVU Producer enables anyone to produce professional, multi-camera video, eliminating the need for expensive hardware and software or prior training. Covering a wide range of applications, from live sports events and egames competitions, through to house of worship services and concerts, the simple web-browser interface of TVU Producer enables it to handle any multi-camera production from virtually any location. Producer supports simultaneously output…
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BY PETER WANYONYI When Ray Tomlinson invented and implemented what we now know as email back in 1971, it was intended as a simple file transfer system that would allow short, basic text communication between computers. He did not realise, at the time, that his invention would become the ultimate killer app, a service used by billions today and which now sits at the very centre of online identity. Today, email is at the centre of nearly everything we do on the internet. It’s used to identify and authenticate individuals. It’s indispensable in communicating between parties on the internet –…
BY LYNSEY CHUTEL Callers who thought they’d save money by using Internet services will have to pay even more in Zambia. The country’s government has approved a tax on Internet calls in order to protect large telcos, at the expense of already squeezed citizens. The new tariff, announced last month, will be collected through mobile phone companies and Internet service providers. The fee will be charged at a daily rate at 30 ngwee (3c) per day, irrespective of how many Internet calls are made, explained Minister of Information and Broadcasting Dora Siliya. Siliya, who is also the government’s spokeswoman, defended the new…
BY ABDI LATIF DAHIR Kenya held one of Africa’s most expensive elections in 2017, with its electoral body alone using more than Sh5.3 billion to conduct the polls. Allegations of tampering and hacking, voter boycotts, and violence dogged the voting, and the Supreme Court eventually annulled the August presidential results and ordered a new election in October. After the electoral irregularities of 2007 and 2013, the crisis solidified mistrust of the electoral commission. Now the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is planning to look into blockchain technologies that could allow candidates to “securely access” real-time results, hence improving transparency and easing public suspicion. The plan has kicked off an impassioned conversation…
BY DAVID ONJILI The key factor of demand and supply in any business establishment can never be overstated. For a business to thrive, it must meet specific demands in that region. It does pay in the long run to analyze the location where you intend to set up the business. The demographics of your clients, their purchasing power and the government regulations of running such a venture within a certain location are key. A majority of Nairobians seldom have breakfast in their houses; this is because most of them need to be at their respective workstations by eight or half…
BY MOHAMED AHMED Skyscrapers are very tall buildings that define a city’s skyline. The term originates in the US in the late 1880s during the building boom in Chicago and New York. At this time, buildings that had more floors than the surrounding buildings were called skyscrapers. Lately, buildings that have at least 40 or more floors are designated as skyscrapers. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an international organization of civil engineers and architects based in Chicago, ranks the heights of buildings based on three criteria: the height of building from the lowest level to the architectural top,…
BY DAVID ONJILI Regulatory sandboxes, is when the government or essentially the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) stays aloof to allow experimentation then later formulate policy to guide them. The gist of this is to give a safe legal status and space for ingenuity to investors and developers to unlock their unique financial innovations with specific bias to Kenyan consumers. It is greatly inspired by the global success of M-Pesa where Kenya remains a trailblazer in mobile money innovation. Fintech innovation tends to align with the Capital Market’s 10-year Master Plan that seeks to stimulate innovation, broaden products while deepening market…
BY GILBERT NG’ANG’A This was meant to be a year when Kenyans would begin enjoying the raft of economic promises made by President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime last year as the Jubilee government sought re-election. As imagined by many, going with the Jubilee manifesto and campaign statements, the country would usher in an era of economic prosperity, anchored on lower cost of living and increased business and job opportunities. However, nearly a year since re-election, that is not to be the case. Kenya is staring at an era of high cost of living in the coming months, which could trigger mass…
BY EMEKA-MAYAKA GEKARA Prof Kivutha Kibwana projects a certain humility that is depressingly rare. He resisted when an aide attempted to give him a “better” seat during our interview. The law professor was comfortable on a seat his staffer considered not befitting his status—an ordinary seat. A conversation with the Makueni governor paints a picture of a scholar who left the ivory towers and retreated to the village to work with ordinary people. And he seems pretty at home. He fought for a Wanjiku-driven Constitution. After passing the Constitution, he followed Wanjiku to the village. The governor sees his current…
“Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability. Many years from now, people will look back on it as a revolution.” – Frans van Houten BY ANTONY MUTUNGA Imagine a world where pollution was reduced to a minimum, a place where the air, land and water were free of waste from industries. Wouldn’t that be…