Kenyan technology publication covering consumer technology, telecoms, digital services, startups, reviews and practical guides.
You have just arrived home at 8 PM. You have wrapped up a long day; you settle onto the couch, open YouTube on your smart TV, and hit play. The video loads for a second, then the spinning wheel of doom appears. You wait and wait. If this…
Months before its October premiere on Paramount+, Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender has leaked online, and from the sounds of it, the footage is the real deal. It started on April 12 when X user @ImStillDissin claimed Nickelodeon had…
If you have spent any time on X, you know the drill. A red siren emoji, the word “BREAKING” in capitals, and then a story that turns out to be neither breaking nor particularly newsworthy. The post has already done its job, racking up…
Safaricom launched My OneApp with a simple pitch: to stop making people juggle two apps. The old M-PESA app handled payments, the MySafaricom app handled bundles and account management, and merging them into one platform made obvious…
Kenya’s fixed internet market has a new undisputed leader. According to nPerf’s annual barometer covering April 2025 to March 2026, Faiba finished first overall among the five major providers measured (Airtel, Faiba, Safaricom, VGG…
When WhatsApp posted “Now its official” in response to a fan declaring them supporters of Arsenal, it looked like a brand having a bit of fun on social media. However, the reply was the opening act of a fully formed global partnership…
Samsung has held the number one spot in global gaming monitor sales by revenue for the seventh year in a row, according to new data from research firm IDC. The company currently holds an 18.9% share of the worldwide gaming monitor market…
It’s a day that ends in “Y,” and another AI product from Meta is here to make the headlines, if only briefly. The company has announced Muse Spark, positioning it as the centerpiece of what it describes as a ground-up overhaul of its AI…
For a long time, Kenya’s mobile internet story was about access; now it is about how much people use it. The sector statistics report from the Communications Authority of Kenya for October to December 2025 shows that Kenyans are not just…
Editing PDFs used to mean slow, manual work—copying text into another file, fixing formatting by hand, or switching between multiple apps just to make a few changes. In 2026, that workflow feels outdated. AI PDF editing makes it easier to…
Late last month, the World Bank Board of Directors approved new financing to boost the ongoing road and fiber project set to advance the connectivity of Northern Kenya. This latest tranche of cash totals KES 58.3 billion ($550 million).…
For 17 years, the question of who invented Bitcoin has been one of the internet’s most enduring unsolved mysteries. This week, the New York Times thinks it finally has the answer, and the man they’re pointing at is not happy about it. The…
In the second quarter of Kenya’s 2025/26 financial year, total domestic mobile SMS traffic fell from 14.7 billion messages to 14.4 billion, a decline of 291 million messages in three months. At the same time, total domestic voice minutes…
Kenya’s total available international internet bandwidth reached 24,161.332 Gbps by the end of December 2025, up from 22,311.445 Gbps three months earlier. This 8.3% quarterly increase is notable on its own, but a closer look at where this…
Kenya closed out 2025 with its digital economy accelerating at pace, based on new data from the Communications Authority of Kenya covering October 1 to December 31. The numbers point to a country that is highly connected and increasingly…
Running an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is hard enough without also having to juggle four or five different infrastructure vendors, each responsible for a separate slice of your network. However, that’s been the reality for most Tier-2…
Satellite communication companies operating in Kenya, including Starlink, are about to pay significantly more to stay in business here. The Communications Authority of Kenya rolled out its Revised Telecommunications Market Structure for…
At the end of December 2025, Kenya had 78.3 million mobile phones connected to its networks. Of those, 48,726,982 were smartphones and 29,620,022 were feature phones. Smartphones now outnumber feature phones by nearly 20 million devices,…
By the end of December 2025, Kenya had 51,356,425 mobile money subscriptions. That represents a 5.6% increase from the 48,630,797 recorded at the end of September. This means that roughly 2.7 million Kenyans activated or reactivated mobile…
vivo’s newest addition to its lineup, the vivo V70, went on sale in Kenya today, priced at KES 84,999. The phone’s main selling point is its camera system, specifically a 50 MP telephoto lens built in partnership with ZEISS. Telephoto…
Netflix has launched Netflix Playground, a standalone app designed for children aged 8 and under. It’s included with any Netflix subscription and has no ads, in-app purchases, or extra fees. The app is currently live in the US, UK, Canada,…
On April 6, 2026, four people were sitting inside a capsule roughly 406,777 KM from Earth, further from home than any human being had ever been. Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen…
The pay TV sector in Kenya had a rough 2025, with numbers showing it lost 73.2% of its customer base. This sharp decline led to the loss of 4,530,195 subscribers in just 12 months. Data from the industry regulator, the Communications…
On April 3, 2026, the IEBC issued a statement that set off a wave of alarm among Kenyan voters. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission announced that anyone who registered as a voter before 2012 and did not subsequently submit…
