Latest technology stories from across Kenya.
Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites out there. The site celebrated its 10th birthday yesterday and surviving all those years is not a joke in an industry where we see knew companies coming up and falling off before…
Earlier this week, Google officially released the first Android N Developer preview and this shocked many people given that Google I/O is still two months away. We are used to Google releasing Android developer previews at this event and…
Today Smile Communications Uganda announced the introduction of two 4G LTE innovations to its customers in Uganda. Smile is the first operator in East Africa to offer its customers Voice over LTE services, giving them access to the fast…
Uber is planning to expand its services to three more Africa countries this year given the success the taxi hailing app has had in the countries it is currently operating in. the company came into Africa not so long ago and is currently…
Tecno has decided that 2016 is their year and an upgrade to the well received Boom J7 is well underway. Tecno Boom J8 will soon be launched, it will be a phone focused on music. I don’t have a lot of information about the phone, but the…
If you’re an active follower of technology trends, you may have heard of HiOS, a new custom user interface from Tecno that they will be releasing alongside their upcoming Tecno Boom J8. This move by Tecno aims to give them a personalized…
The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has today announced the nominees in this years’ Kenyan Blog Awards. The unveiling will also see the opening of the third and most active part of the awards; the online voting phase. This follows a…
Well, the leak kings are at it again and this time with very clear images of an upcoming Huawei flagship, the P9. The P9 is packed with a 5.2″ Full HD screen, Kirin 950 processor on board, Mali T880 GPU, 3GB RAM, 32GB internal storage,…
Microsoft has been the king of the desktop OS market for decades. Its different Windows variants have always been favorites with most users. At the moment, Windows 7 is the most popular desktop OS version out there with a market share of…
Fans of the well known Xperia Z series were somewhat disappointed after they learnt that the loved and appreciated flagship series of Sony Xperia lines was no more. This didn’t come as a surprise though as there had been speculations and…
After Infinix Mobility went public with the tweet below, it became evident that Infinix Hot 3 was well underway. Read More: Infinix Shares an Image That Confirms The Infinix Hot 3 Is on The way However, nothing much has surfaced about the…
Facebook is currently testing a new SMS integration feature for its Android app. This new feature will offer users the chance of messaging their contacts (both on Facebook and their contact lists) very easily without having to move between…
Twitter is a very popular social networking site but its growth has been stagnant for some time now. As new social sites keep coming up and the existing ones see their user base grow, Twitter has seen slowed growth. For example, Twitter…
Twitter officially introduced its new timeline yesterday. We had heard that the company planned to roll out this controversial feature that will put the best tweets first. It is quite strange for Twitter to roll it out given that its CEO…
We have come so far as a country and this is evident when you look at the prices of most items we buy. This is especially for mobile phones which are slightly affordable right now but were way overpriced over 10 years ago. Back then, there…
Smartwatch adoption is still low even as manufacturers try push these new gadgets to the end users. The market has previously been dominated by Samsung and Pebble but it looks like Apple is disrupting their market presence. According to…
Travelstart, the South African-based Online Travel Agency (OTA) with offices throughout Africa and subsidiaries in the Middle East and Turkey, today announced a US$40 million funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, the global technology…
For a while now, Apple has been the world’s most valuable company. The company has just been dethroned from this post with Alphabet, an Umbrella company that Google falls under. This company has been around for about 6 months and owns a…
Samsung’s next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S7 will be unveiled later this month on February 21. Rumors had been suggesting that the Korean company was going to unveil this smartphone at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 but nothing…
Sometime last year, Facebook announced that it will be introducing a like button alternative called Facebook reactions. This new feature will bring six emoji for angry, sad, wow, haha, yay and love making them much more useful as currently…
We all know that Facebook is the king when it comes to social media. The platform has steadily attracted new users to its site even as competition in the field gets tougher. To show big Facebook and some of its companies are, Mark…
Apple is known for its high end and pricey devices that not everyone can afford. With this strategy, the company has seen slow growth (compared to other players) but the good thing is that this growth has been steady. The company is now…
Ever since Uber rolled out its services in the US, it has faced stiff opposition from existing taxi operators who argued that the Taxi hailing app was eating into their specific markets. This has been the case for most cities Uber has…
Sometime last year, Adele’s “Hello” Video was posted on YouTube and as expected the fans flocked in numbers to watch it. Fast forward 87 days later and the video has crossed the 1 billion views mark on the video sharing site. According to…
