BY DAVID ONJILI Every Thursday or Friday, I do make it a personal initiative to watch a movie. Being an ardent sports man, I have a bias to movies that have a sporty theme. I have a rich collection that easily comes to mind; Bugs Bunny, Invictus, Remember the Titans, Karate Kid and most recently Coach Carter. Invictus is a movie worthy of your time; it’s a story of how the late Nelson Mandela uses the sport of rugby to unite an apartheid nation. How sporty. The Titans is another one like Invictus. It is all about integrating blacks into…
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BY TERRY MWANGI Have you ever wondered why you are emotionally attached to most items in your wardrobe? You have really tried but you can never seem to bring yourself to giving them away even though you haven’t worn them in ages? This is simply because you are a hoarder. Did you know that hoarding is a actually a disorder? It is a mental health condition characterized by a compulsive need to acquire and keep possessions even when they are not needed. You keep things in hopes that they will fit you someday or if you are like me, your…
Ring, the leader in home security, has signed a value-added distribution (VAD) agreement with Arab Business Machine Middle East (ABM) for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). ABM will promote and distribute Ring’s innovative home security products and solutions and offer value-added services through its extensive channel partner network. Ring is expanding its global presence and operations in response to the region witnessing a positive growth of the property sector with many developers focusing on building master-planned communities and the increasing demand for home security solutions. “Your home is not an asset – your home is a place that…
BY TERRY MWANGI Unless you are under the club legal age and you are trying to lose your youthful edge so you can get through, nobody ever dresses up with the aim of looking old. We all grow up, whether we want it or not and to some, style evolves with it. Wardrobe and style choices that worked when you were younger may not be serving you well now. This does not mean limiting your clothing options (which takes away all the fun in dressing) but rather refining them to the pieces that suits you best. With the wrong outfit…
BY DAVID ONJILI Anyone who is not a keen follower of professional sports can easily be blinded by the huge amounts of money that notable names in professional football earn. The English Premier League is followed closely by most Kenyans and some of the transfer fees for players is mind-boggling and it’s very easy to view the sport and the athletes as very rich individuals. A background check reveals very huge pay disparities and sad tales of players living in abject poverty as a result of exploitation or injuries. The Federation Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels (FIFPrpo) is a…
BY KENYATTA OTIENO There was a high school culture in western Kenya that hyped the bus one boarded to school. The hype was on speed and music that played in the bus. This was connected to those who came from beyond the region then known as “us guys” because the majority did not have to board these busses to the surrounding areas. In my time, Shaggy Bus Company operating from Country Bus Park popularly known as Machakos Airport was the toast. The busses were named after the popular figures of that time. There were other busses from companies that did…
A remotely controlled malware capable of intercepting and sending SMS, displaying fake activity, as well as downloading and installing other apps, was recently found lurking behind every app on Turkish alternative Android app store. It is at the back of this that Internet security company ESET East Africa has issued an alert to mobile phone users running on the Android platfom to be wary of alternative app stores’ potential to spread malware such as screen locking malware. The alert comes after cyber-crime researchers discovered that www.CepKutusu.com, a Turkish alternative Android app store was spreading malware under the guise of all…
BY PETER WANYONYI There’s a reason Africa, most parts of Asia and South America are called the Third World – they are piss-poor, backward, badly-run and generally quite hopeless. Good, positive stories of progress and development are hard to come by in the Third World. In economics, in military affairs, infrastructure, human rights, social progress and in technology invention and usage, Third World countries generally lag far, far behind the rest of the world. Parts of Africa are so backward that they effectively are still in the Stone Age. And you could go to places in South America that are…
By Darrel Orsmond Over the past four months, over 4,000 organisations globally have been targeted by cyberattacks, which aim to infect their networks, steal data and commit fraud. Many of these companies are leading international names in industries such as oil & gas, manufacturing, banking and construction industries – and some have had their defenses breached by the attacks. Check Point (a world leader in cyber security) researchers confirmed that several companies including a marine and energy solutions company in Croatia, a transportation company in Abu Dhabi, a mining company in Egypt, construction company in Dubai, oil & gas firm…
By Alastair Paterson We’ve all heard the phrase: “When one door closes, a window opens.” You can bet that as you’re reading this, those engaged in cyber crime on the dark web are looking for that next ‘market place window’ to open. The takedown of AlphaBay by an international law enforcement investigation, followed soon thereafter by the takedown of Hansa, has left many wondering about the future of dark web market places. An erosion of trust in these more established marketplace models will likely derail efforts by others to fill the void quickly. But the fact remains, sellers still need…