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Eleven people perished on the spot Thursday morning when a Nairobi bound matatu collided head-on with a truck at Quarry area along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway. The 11 were in the matatu when it was hit and dragged for about 40-metres and squeezed into a roadside embankment. Koibatek Sub-County Commissioner, Samson Irungu said they rushed to the scene but were shocked to find 11 occupants in the matatu had perished and were trapped inside the vehicle. However one person, Joseph Chigu Otieno, survived the accident. “The lorry was loaded with twisted iron rods that made its momentum dangerous. When it lost control and swerved to the right it hit the matatu and pushed it forty metres off the road before coming to a halt when the two vehicles hit a side embankment. "All the victims had multiple fractures and rescuers had a difficult time pulling the two vehicles apart in the hope of finding a survivor,” Mr Irungu said. Koibatek Divisional Police ...

What is the best laptop?' is a question we get asked all the time, so in an attempt to answer that question....   'What is the best laptop?' is a question we get asked all the time, so in an attempt to answer that question, here is our list of the best laptops available to buy in 2014. 13. Toshiba Qosmio X70-A Reviewed on: 14 November 13 RRP : £1699 inc. VAT The Toshiba Qosmio X70-A is expensive, but not over-priced when compared to many rival gaming laptops. And, in addition to its strong gaming performance the X70-A also provides an attractive screen and speakers that make it a great all-round entertainment machine. 12. Toshiba Kirabook Reviewed on: 17 May 13 RRP : Around £1,500 inc VAT The audience Toshiba is pursuing with the Kirabook is the well-to-do professional who is willing to pay extra for high-end hardware and services. The Kirabook is the most beautiful Ultrabook to pass through our Test Centre, but its ina...

Best smartphones, mobile phones, phones. Whatever you call them they all share the same thing. They’re the hottest kind of tech. They sell millions, and make billions and there's plenty more to come in 2014, but which should you choose if you're buying right now? The first thing is to decide the platform you want to side with. There’s the iPhone and its easy to use iOS mobile operating system, an army of Android phones powered by Google, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 and – new kid on the block – BlackBerry 10. iOS offers the best apps and games, Android the most fiddling potential. Windows Phone 8 is the slickest and BlackBerry 10 is on hand for those who want something a bit different. 2013 was another big year for smartphones with the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S joining the Nokia Lumia 1020 and Android phone greats like the Sony Xperia Z1 and Nexus 5 as standout newcomers. We should of course not forget about the TrustedReviews Product of the Year the Motorola Mo...

With a wide and varied pool of Android apps at your disposal, the Nokia X family of smartphones have something for everyone. Here are our highlights. Vine Available on Nokia Store Developed by Twitter, Vine enables you to create short, looping videos that you can share online via Twitter and Facebook, as well as your Vine profile. With the ability to pause and edit your video at any time, it opens up a whole world of creativity, particularly when it comes to stop-motion videos, such as this one from Ian Padham demonstrates. HERE Maps Available on Nokia Store The same reliable HERE Maps that’s available on Nokia Lumia and Nokia Asha is also built right into the Nokia X family. HERE Maps helps you explore what’s around you, new places you’ve never been to and then helps you get there as stress-free as possible. Car, pedestrian, and public transport routing are included in this one app, as is the in-car voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation and all free...

It’s been exactly a week since the Android-powered Nokia X was revealed at Mobile World Congress 2014, but it’s already been hacked to run the Google Play Store and its Android apps. Nokia’s curious decision to release an Android-powered smartphone mere months (at best) before a full take-over by Microsoft - the home of Windows Phone and staunch Google rival - appeared to be justified (albeit weakly) by the fact that the Nokia X range couldn’t run Google’s Android services and apps. Now that last, flimsy barrier to a full Nokia Android experience appears to have been broken, albeit unofficially. Over on the XDA-developers forums, a Nokia X handset has been cracked to run the Google Play Store and its million-or-so apps. What’s more, it only took user Kasamalaga five simple steps to achieve this. By following these steps it’s possible to get Gmail, Google Maps, Google Now and the like running on the Nokia X, which attempts to replace such popular Google services with Microso...

Global leaders from the US, Europe, Africa and Asia joined together this week to debate and define a roadmap that will help break down barriers and overturn outmoded attitudes in a bid get more girls into technology-related studies and careers. A high-level dialogue held at New York’s Institute of International Education and hosted by the International Telecommunication Union, the UN-specialized agency for information and communication technology, identified misguided school-age career counselling, the popular media’s ‘geek’ image of the technology field, a dearth of inspirational female role models, and a lack of supportive frameworks in the home and workplace as factors that, together, tend to dissuade talented girls from pursuing a tech career. The debate brought together leading international figures and champions of gender empowerment including Melanne Verveer, United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues; Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women;...

“If I die, I will have died doing what I love doing.” These are Steve Obbayi’s words, and the ultimate reality that one facing a daunting and risky task has to contend with. It is as solemn as it is exciting for him to be the first Kenyan to attempt summiting Mt Everest. If his dream of setting foot atop the highest surface on earth comes true, then he will be among very few human beings to have left their footprints at the zenith of our planet. Official numbers indicate that just more than 2,000 have been successful in this endeavour. The sense of accomplishment and exultation on achieving this feat is unimaginable. Between him and the summit of Mt Everest, however, lie temperatures in negative degrees, disease vectors, frigid weather and the ‘death zone’ — which not everyone is lucky enough to cross back alive. Just prospects of being the first Kenyan to climb Mt Everest is dizzying enough, says Obbayi. “I can’t guarantee success, but if I make it, I will have succeeded in ...