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Sunday night, 25 year old Zambian RnB star, ’Mampi’ was evicted from the classy Big Brother Upville house.

In tense moods, Mampi was named evicted and moved out of Upville house smartly to the stage, to meet Big Brother Africa show host, I.K Osakioduwa and fans.

3 housemates had been nominated and these were Mampi, Lady May and Maneta . The 2 housemates Lady May and Maneta survived eviction.

When Mampi was asked to about who she can vote for and one housemate she thinks can win Big Brother StarGane, she said she will be voting for her girl Maneta though thinks that Zainab might take the 300,000 USD prize home, since she is so crazy!

The Sunday show kicked off with a presentation by Tanzanian Bongo Flava/hip-hop star, Diamond. An over-eager fan jumped on stage and started dancing with the singer, but was then escorted off by security. 10 seconds later, another fan jumped up on stage, and he too was taken off stage. Namibian DJ, Umculo, also performed, presenting a mix to the audience.

Big Brother host, IK, then turned to the classy Upville house. DKB was asked to stand up and tell Africa who he nominated, to which he said Lady May. Lady May quickly got up and said “I knew it!” She stood very confident while waving her flag. Mampi was a lot less confident and looked very panicky as she waved to the cameras. Lady May was told that she’s safe, which left Maneta and Mampi standing side by side.

IK told Maneta that she was safe, and at that moment, Mampi knew she was the one leaving. She gave the rest of the Housemates a hug and made her way out. Mampi then came onto the stage where she was interviewed by IK. The ex-Housemate said that she thinks Zainab has the potential to win because she’s “crazy.”

IK Osakioduwa then turned to the random Nomination machine to see which Downville Housemates get nominated. Ghana’s Keitta and Mildred were selected first. A second random Nomination was conducted, and Botswana’s Edith and Eve were selected.

We wish you well, Mampi!

Who will be leaving Big Brother House this weekend? Vote for the housemate you want to save every day.

Launch of One Africa, One Rate

Tanzania’s Bongo Flava artiste, Naseeb Abdul popularly known as Diamond Platnumz will be performing Live at the Big Brother Eviction Show on Sunday May 27 at 20:00 CAT.

Popularly known as the king of Bongo Flava, Diamond became the first Tanzanian artist to be nominated for the MTV African Music Awards (MAMA) Brand New Act Award in 2010.

Diamond Platnumz also boasts of a number of Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Music Awards and has been a sensation among both young and old fans for years now.

For the first time since Big Brother Africa StarGame kicked off 3 weeks ago, some members from the posh Upville house will be evicted or demoted to Downville.

The nominees for possible eviction are Lady May, Mampi or Maneta. Maneta previously escaped the first eviction from Downville during week one. Will she be lucky this time round?

We hope Diamond will put up an outstanding performance!

In other developments, Three Big brother housemates were caught Smoking in the Toilet yesterday!

It seems as though the Downville Diners don’t learn. Not long after Big Brother punished Seydou for microphone infringement by forcing him to find a needle in a haystack, some of them decided to smoke in the toilet.

Much as Big Brother’s House Rules state clearly that smoking in the House is prohibited, Head of House Keagan, Alex and Wati decided to act clever and hide in the toilet to steal a smoke.

Remember Big Brother can see everything as it happens in the house, but these members unfortunately forgot this fact. They were smoking at about midnight, a few moments after finishing the day’s task.

On their return to the bedroom, Edith was the first to blurb that there was a smoke smell but the culprits simply ignored her.

We can’t wait to know their next punishment!

This 26 year old one time survivor in Big Brother StarGame Upville house never stops surprising housemates and the general public following this reality TV show.

Zainab escaped eviction last Sunday after having lead country votes, and her country mate Dalphin was evicted with 2 other housemates.

Lately, Zainab has cut off her hair and she looks so different!

After telling Barbz that she wanted to shave her head to become the perfect image for the Art Fusion Task, Sierra Leone’s Zainab went ahead shaved her head.

She really seems to be a serious decision maker, and she made a surprising one this time.

Last evening, Zainab employed forces including Prezzo, DKB and Roki to be a part of her ‘glam squad’. The guys all took turns helping out with chopping off her locks, as some of the girls in Upville house watched.

Maneta seemed taken aback by Zainab’s bold decision and asked the model why she was cutting her hair. Zainab revealed that she cuts her hair often and isn’t too addicted to hair extensions and weaves, like other girls. Barbz told the other girls the look is bound to give Zainab a leg up in the cutthroat modeling industry.

Did Zainab take the best decision? Will Biggie like her looks in the next presentation? We can only hope things don’t back fire.

What do you think about Zainab’s new look?

To take you back, Zainab is the same housemate that had a date with Biggie during week 1.

MTN has become the first African brand to feature in BrandZ Top 100 coming in at position No 88 at a valuation of $9.2 billion as of 2012.

Developed by leading research agency, Millward Brown Optimor, BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands is a brand rankings that include consumer data as a component element in arriving at the brand value. The rankings survey over 150,000 people around the world.

Among the key highlights of this ranking is the rise of Africa as they state that “This year’s ranking highlights the progress of Africa’s economic development with the arrival of the first African brand in the Top 100 – South African mobile company MTN – No 88 at $9.2 billion. But it’s not just African brands that are thriving south of the Sahara. Around 40% of Guinness’s sales come from Africa, Airtel’s third quarter results showed a 16% increase in revenue in Africa. Similarly, Orange enjoyed rapid growth in Africa in 2011, while Walmart invested there with the acquisition of Massmart.”

Seven of the top 10 brands are technology or telecoms brands with Apple being the number one brand.

It is further emphasized that the The Future is Mobile: The future of the internet will be predominantly mobile rather than computer based. Mobile, to some extent, has been shielded from the recession as one of the few items consumers don’t want to give up or cut back on. The most valuable telecoms brand is AT&T worth $68.8 billion. Whilst the USA’s largest mobile service provider, Verizon, increased its brand value by 15% in the last year and is now worth $49.1 billion. 

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility policy and its Innovation strategy, Orange has launched the Orange African Social Venture Prize a project that aims at promoting social innovation for development.

According to http://www.starafrica.com The African Social Venture Prize will reward three projects or enterprises addressing needs of the ‘bottom of pyramid’ market in Africa through technology. The 3 winners will receive a financial grant (25,000 Euro, 15,000 Euro, and 10,000 Euro) and they will also benefit from a 6-month mentoring by management experts.

The digital projects range from e-health and mobile banking to digital and mobile applications for education or agriculture.

Participants

Orange states that Participants, regardless of nationality, must be more than 21 years old, can either be students, entrepreneurs or companies in activity since June 2009. The businesses or projects submitted are required to target at least one of the African countries of Orange’s footprint. Their core business has to use technology in an innovative way to enhance living conditions of local populations.

The African countries of Orange’s footprint are Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Uganda, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Botswana.

 Applications are open from:  May 22nd to September 21st 2012.

Google+, Google’s big push to social media has yet to gain fan boys in order to come anywhere close to taking away a share of Facebook’s supremacy. Apart from search related advantages brands may have with being actively on Google+, there is one good reason to be on Google+ and that reason is the Google+ Hangouts on Air.

Hangouts on air enable your brand to do live video broadcasts to unlimited viewers instantly and for free.  

Originally Google+ Hangouts, allowed you to video chat with up to 9 different people at once and now Google+ Hangouts on Air, lets you broadcast to an unlimited audience.   Google+ Hangouts is being rolled out around the world. By last check (May 2012), it was available to Kenya subscribers but not yet for Uganda though we hope it will be coming soon even to Ugandans.

Google+ Hangouts On Air

1.       Hangouts On Air allow you to publicly broadcast your Hangouts on YouTube and your Google+ stream for anyone to watch. When broadcasting, your video will stream live on your YouTube account and on your Google+ stream. This means you can share your YouTube URL with anyone who wants to watch your broadcast live.

2.       Live-Stream Your Hangout on Any Website. While in your Hangout, you can grab the YouTube video embed code and paste it into your blog or website to get more viewers and reach.

3.       Incorporate Google+ Apps ; Right now, you can use a number of applications like Google Docs, SlideShare and Cacoo to help you collaborate or present your ideas in video. This gives you the same functionality of hosting your own webinar at no cost.

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She looks so beautiful; you and everybody around you can see this. In fact, that richer Don close to you feels like passing over his Business card to her someway! But who told you she is uncomfortable with you? Why do you have to rush so much for something the heavenly belongs to you and you alone.

Unless if you just have plans to work out something with her for a night/day/party/week/month, but if not so, then make sure you take your time.

Why do have to do everything you would do in a year in only one day. You want to go shopping, watch a movie, take her to your friends, check you ATM balance, show her your classy apartment etc.. It is not worth it and, when you do this, you will have killed the would be love, that moment.

Here are 5 Mistakes that you should avoid on your first date;

1. Tell her your profession not your position

Women and security are inseparable, they want know they will happily live tomorrow and the next years with you. But this is not what they want to know about you first. On your first date, control your tongue and make sure you only say what is most necessary. Try to see how you can create a conversation about you and her. Let her know your profession if you wish so but not your position in that company. If you are a boss, she is not interested in your ‘Boss’ alias, be yourself and let her know you for you.

2. Don’t talk about family and best friends

You are the first and most important thing she wants to know about. Unless if she found you at a family party, with friends, this in not something you need to introduce to her on your first date. Make sure you take more time trying to know her and let her know you just a bit. Remember she is more interested in knowing you than you do.  Let her ask you about your friends, family etc if she so wishes.

3. No discussion beyond 1 Hour

If possible, carry an alarm clock in your bag, or set alarm on your phone. Besides, you can ask a friend, one you trust so much to call you in exactly 45 minutes time, let her know you are a busy and responsible guy. Make sure that friend doesn’t call you to speak about soccer, basketball. Use the remaining 15 or less minutes to conclude with her and say goodbye, if it is not too late, don’t spend more time with her trying to drop her home.

4. Your Future Plans and Money should be out of your talk?

If she is interested in YOUR money, then she must have seen that money aspect in you already before accepting that date. But hey, who told you whoever looks money actually has the flowing cheques. So then, take some time, don’t over rule the conversation selfishly talking about you, your future plans and money are things to talk about later on, so please make sure you strictly talk about love and your feelings.

5. You simply can’t Kiss her!

Where in the world did you get this idea? On first date, and you want to peck or kiss her, trust me you are just terrible. You might think you are winning her too fast but contrary to your belief, you are giving her reasons to let go of you as soon as she knows your bad side. If she belongs to you, then she definitely does, so don’t rush, you will get it all that you ever wanted from her.

I hope these tips will help you polish up, especially the single guys out there. Thanks for reading, remember to share this piece with your friends and leave your comment below.

For the last several years, I found it a shame for a company as big as Uganda telecom with enough cash, engineers, and IT experts to have a website that could only be equated to project of a first year IT student.  It was so poor in navigation lacked a clear structure and was hardly updated.  That is no more now since Uganda Telecom has of today(May 21^st)  launched a new website based on WordPress Content Management System(CMS)  (Just  a few days after when we had run an article about CMSes that companies can use to improve their online presence)

A quick review of the new UTL website, the positives

1.       Very good branding

2.       Fast to load pages

3.       Uses WordPress CMS

4.       Very nice and light homepage slider

5.       Very nice and well positioned bottom slider

6.       Clear social media tools in the footer

7.       Very good footer menu

8.       Well positioned external links  at the top e.g link to mobile website http://www.utmobile.ug/ (Mobile website may be lacking)

Improvements

1.       There is redundant information such as definition of internet

2.       Navigation is a little mixed up at some sections .e .g a visitor does not easily get clear difference between business internet solutions and personal internet solutions while navigating.

3.       Social media link to YouTube is not right

4.       Contact Us is not the same Customer Care. It is conversion for websites to have a contact us menu or link but that is not the case with UTL’s new website. I had to search for contact us and when I did not find it I had to look under the Customer Care Menu.

5.       Very important:  Lacking information.  I could not find prices for their data package.

6.       Menu Order – May be UTL could reconsider the position of “About US”.

With those quick observations, we at HiPipo believe UTL has made a very good thing to improve their online presence and we commend the team for the job well done.