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yuMobile BlackBerry Services for Retail, Corporate Clients

Mobile operator yuMobile recently unveiled its long awaited BlackBerry Service Plan, giving both its retail and corporate subscribers an option of eight BlackBerry service to pick from. The service plans include: i) BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) The Blackberry Internet Service is…
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So You Want a New Nose? There's an App for That Too

If you are dying to know what you’d look like with a new nose or a little liposuction, then you might want to perhaps take a look at your iPhone. An app developed by a new spa gives cosmetic surgery lovers – or even just the curious prying…
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Stuntin' Like My Daddy: Here's What a KSh1.2B House Looks Like

Hip-hop icon Bryan “Birdman” Williams, founder and CEO of Cash Money Records,  spent KES 1. 2354 Billlion ($14.5M) buying a 19,000 square feet, 9 bedroom, 17 bathroom house somewhere in his neck of the woods, Yahoo has reported. Here is what that kind…
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Impact of the Fuel Increase on Your Pocket

The latest fuel price review has seen the price of super petrol increase by KES 6.31 to retail at KES 115.26, diesel increase by KES 5.04 to retail at KES 106.11 and kerosene increase by KES 6.36 to retail at KES 86.01. Based on the price rise, Kenyans…
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How to Make a Successful Movie

How much money do you need to make a decent film? How do you know whether or not it will be successful? Here are a few lessons from the industry’s best and brightest. Target Audience Valentines Day, Friends With Benefits and Bridesmaids are the…
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To Hack or Not to Hack?

With fake phones being put off and fake things generally being shunned there has been a rise of a specific breed of technicians. Technicians with a certain skill set. Is hacking an option?
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Who Should Foot That Bill?

I recently went on a date and when the bill was brought my date insisted on paying. Being a traditional type of guy, it felt awkward and somehow humiliating to have a woman pay the bill. We got into a heated debate, on who should foot the bill, until she paused a question, “Who made it a requirement that men should always foot the bill?” Well, who did?
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Insanely Expensive Stuff: Apartments That Will Cost You Over KES 100,000

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.” – Kevin Spacey They are not mere residences but an indication of your status in society. As opposed to standard apartments,…
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Projected Pump Prices for October

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is over this weekend expected to announce reviewed fuel pump prices for the period starting 15 October, 2012 to 14 October, 2012. Based on the observed upward trend in international oil prices and weakening of the Shilling over the month of August, we…
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Is The Customer Always Right?

Does being the customer automatically translate into your being right all the time? Well, apparently not.
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