Microsoft has joined with payment software vendor M-Com to push a mobile payment system that will be accepted by banks around the world.The two companies have built a software package called BankAnywhere which is based around Windows and Microsoft SQL Server, as well as Internet Information Services (IIS).The software is platform agnostic and will consist of software on the phone linking in to back-end services in banks. The software was announced at Sibos 2009 in Honk Kong.
It is clear that consumers in Asia and around the world have an insatiable demand for mobile financial services, especially payment transactions, said Adam Clark, chief executive of M-Com. Continue Reading
Interview in progress at the BBC studio in Nairobi
Mobile Web Africa is a technology conference that was held in October 2009 in Sandton, South Africa to discuss the mobile web in Africa, how we can harness the potential of the Internet and applications on mobile devices. Mbugua Njihia our CEO was selected as a panelist and showcased some home grown innovations in the field of mobile advertising as well as social networking. Continue Reading
What is mobile media planning and buying? Where and what do I buy? Is it difficult? Do I need an agent? Can I target a specific audience? Can it be measured? Mbugua Njiha - Symbiotic CEO will take you through questions on mobile advertising and give tips on how brands and their agencies can harness the power of mobile media to reach their desired marketing goals.
Episode airs on 3rd September on KeleleTV
A case for web based applications and software as a service – Security
You’ll never lose important data.
All data is backed up daily, written to multiple disks instantly, and stored in multiple locations. You could say our backups have backups. Files that our customers upload are stored on servers that use modern techniques to remove bottlenecks and points of failure.
Your data won’t be compromised.
Data center access is limited to only authorized personnel. 24/7/365 onsite staff provides additional protection against unauthorized entry and security breaches.
Our infrastructure is secure.
Our software and infrastructure is updated regularly with the latest security patches. The traffic on our network flows behind an enterprise-class firewall to keep it guarded from people with malicious intent.
You’ll always have access to your data.
Our servers—from the power supply to the internet connection to the air purifying system—operate at full redundancy. If one system goes bad a backup system immediately kicks in. Our systems are engineered to stay up even if multiple servers fail.
Your billing information is safe and secure.
Your billing information is always protected. All credit card transactions are processed using secure encryption—the same level of encryption used by reputable e-commerce companies and online banks. Credit card data is stored on a PCI-Compliant network.
Any further questions?
Submit a support request if you have other security questions and we’ll get back to you as quickly as we can. We may not be able to provide specific details since they might compromise our security set-up, but we’ll answer what we can.
Mbugua Njihia, our CEO will together with Brian Longwe Munyao co-facilitate a session on – So We Have the Fibre Optic Cable: What Next? at the international Storymoja Hay Festival July 31 to August 2 2009. More details on the festival here.
The first of four undersea cables bringing high-speed internet to eastern Africa goes live today (July 23rd 2009). The BBC’s Anne Waithera, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, finds a nation impatient to join the broadband revolution.In a busy cyber cafe in Nairobi dozens of people, mostly young, are hunched over computers surfing the net.I try to strike up a conversation with one of them but he will not even look my way. Without looking up from the monitor he signals with his hand that I should wait until he is done.
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