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A Ugandan-based startup Imuka Access has made it its primary mission to help SMEs(Small and Growing businesses) raise money and link interested investors to such businesses. To achieve that, they have a regional event dubbed Pitchfest which is organized across the country for businesses to pitch to a panel of local investors. It’s like Shark Tank or Lion’s Den but without the flashy lights and cameras but rather the need to empower these businesses....

Announced earlier this year as an idea, Plex is finally bringing Web Shows to life on its platform. Although Plex Web Shows is available in the Beta stage at the moment, it boasts of 67 shows and over 19,000 episodes at launch. While Plex says more contents, publications, and episodes are in the works and on their way, 67 shows and almost 20,000 episodes are a good start. Asides being of high quality, contents on the Plex Web Show platform are interestingly diverse to satisfy a wide range of audience....

However, the feature is bound not to work on all of the Chrome OS devices as some just don’t have a good enough camera to make it work. In a way, portrait mode was made available on computers earlier this year when Skype introduced the feature during video calls. Portrait mode has come a long way from being common on iPhones to being featured on other smartphones and now tablets and computers....

Traditional snail mail services have taken a hit with the advent of email the likes of Gmail and YahooMail. Email services usually come at zero-cost; you can receive email at any time, day or night with the tap of a button. On the other hand, with snail mail one has to periodically check the post office box and it’s a hit and miss affair. However, much as email is fast and convenient, it still has not been able to replace tangible letters and documents....

Last year the company lost up to Sh1 million in a month through its customers who were fraud victims but the losses have declined by 75 percent. Safaricom Chief Corporate Security Officer, Nicholas Mulila, says this will help access to more information to their super agents before any transactions are conducted especially when a sim swap raises suspicions. “We are now able to provide more information to our super agents, where they need to determine how much a customer can withdraw, and if they think it is a suspicious transaction, then they can actually stop it,” said Mulila, during the launch of International Mobile Subscriber Identity....

Now, most users already know that 4G LTE offers super-fast mobile data north of 150Mbps. VoLTE rides on 4G’s super fast mobile data network to also carry HD voice calls. This means that unlike 2/3G, you can make a call while browsing the internet at the same time with VoLTE. Read More: What is VoLTE and does my smartphone support it? Today, Safaricom is enabling VoLTE on its network countrywide....

For the rest of us (Android users), smartwatches have been a hit or miss and for the most part, fitness trackers have been our thing. They are inexpensive, they don’t try to be anything they’re not and they have great battery life…on top of the whole fitness tracking obviously. Now, I have been using fitness trackers for the past few years, starting with the Xiaomi Mi Band 5, and then the Mi Band 6 and it is time for a change....

Shop and Ship is solving a pertinent issue regarding shipping addresses. They have provided 18 shipping addresses around major global cities enabling you to shop or ship items from almost anywhere in the world which may not have been possible with other players who ship from only particular destinations like USA, UK or China. What is Shop and Ship and what do they do? Shop and Ship by Aramex is an international shipping service available in over 80 destinations globally that allows you to shop from Canada, China, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, and USA and they deliver it to you at affordable rates....

They have announced three new chipsets in the Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 Mobile Platforms, engineered to bring higher performance, better battery life, more efficient designs, impressive graphics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into budget smartphones. Let’s have a look at each of them. Snapdragon 632 The Snapdragon 632 is the newest addition to the 600-series, adding to names like Snapdragon 636 while offering features like eight Qualcomm Kryo 250 CPUs and an Adreno 506 GPU....

As we find ourselves quarantined at home for hours on end during the ongoing global crisis that is the COVID-19, we find ourselves with more time in our hands to do things like listening to music, a ‘luxury’ previously reserved to hours spent in morning and evening rush-hour traffic. I fall in the ‘Music-junkies’ camp and I have evolved over the years, from carrying multiple SD Cards with my Usher and Cassie tunes to today, letting an algorithm decide what song plays next based on what I have listened to before....

XL is the Taxify Uganda’s latest car category, where users as many as six can order for a cab or SUV to pick them up from their locations, and drop them off to a destination. Popular for the insane discounts on rides for users, and having a rather handsome handout to their drivers, Taxify is enjoying a recognizable share of customers in the industry. And with crowds propelling for ride sharing, an announcement of a new offer could make the deal just a better one....

In this post I show you the major difference between the two while highlighting key features and strengths. Before we delve into the Tecno Phantom Z vs Phantom Z mini, I would like to mention that this is not a review but just a comparison of the two devices. Display The Phantom Z has a bigger display than the mini with a 5.2′ screen while the mini is 5.0′. The major difference here is that the Phantom Z is a full HD display with a 19201080 resolution....

We have all been there. You’re connected to your own cute little hotspot, decent speeds, your binge-watching BuzzFeed on YouTube or maybe jamming to your tunes when poof, “No Connection”. You go to settings and your signal strength is almost nonexistent. But all you did was move a few feet!! Turns out, there is a right and wrong way to position your MiFi or router. Let us look at tips that can help your router send a stronger signal throughout your home/apartment....

A power surge can be from either a lightning storm or your house wiring. And while the best way to protect your devices is to unplug them, you also need some security for whenever they are plugged in. This is why we’ve spent some time in market research, looking through user reviews, and came up with the best power strips and extensions guaranteed to protect your appliances in this post....

Some of the updates on the app include an updated account dashboard gives customers a detailed view of their recent transaction history including calls, SMS, Data, Recharges and Mobile Money, the use of a Data Calculator on the App to estimate how much data one needs to buy, and a Simple log and track of queries via the app. Olivier Prentout, the MTN CMO, says that MTN continues to see growth in the usage of the MyMTN app, which is in-line with the rise in smartphone use in Uganda....

After about 8 years of doing business in Africa and Asia, Tecno Mobile quitted the South Asian market to exclusively focus on the African market. In another 8 years (2016), the Chinese smartphone brand entered the Middle East region and Southeast Asia a year later (2017). Now, the Transsion Holding sub-brand boasts of strong presence in other regions and a number of series (read: categories) under which it releases its smartphones....

For many, the use of this fast-growing app –Snapchat– is worrying amongst the youth in various parts of the world. They use it majorly for sending explicit material which is also known as ‘sexting.’ The media, too, hypes this app. It went into another unprecedented overdrive when Snapchat turned down a $3 billion acquistion offer from Facebook. Of course with the recent reports indicating droves of teens leaving Facebook, Facebook has to be worried about the new kids on the block threatening it’s market....

Both of these phones are a symbol of a refreshment in Sony’s design, eliminating the bezel-heavy design we have always known of the company. Sony has now done away with the right angled block design and opted instead for a much smoother form with a curved back that sits easily in the hand. The Sony XZ2 is coated front and back in Gorilla Glass 5, which curves smoothly round the rear of the device, designed to make sure that the phone doesn’t twist in the pocket when put under pressure....

There are so many things to look at while shopping for and deciding on a smart TV and price and TV screen size are right up there but should these not be a huge issue or should you still have options on the table even after factoring in these options, here are some things to bear in mind. OEM or Brand of the TV Cheap is expensive. This applies to the TV market fully....

That’s why Francis Lubanga, a Telecom and Mobile finance expert who also maintains an industry blog created a map showing mobile money installations across the world. According to the map, Africa for instance has over 50 Mobile Money providers while Asia has more than 20, South America has about 6 and North America has none. The project is intended to create a community-edited map of all mobile money deployments in the world....