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WhatsApp users, yours truly included, are unable to send photos, videos and voice messages, though text is still going through, and #instagram down is trending on Twitter. At this point, it’s unclear what might be causing the issue. In March, Facebook experienced a massive outage, supposedly due to a server configuration change. A month later, Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp experienced another outage. This marks the third major outage this year....

End-to-end email encryption is a method of transmitting data where only the sender and receiver can read email messages. With end-to-end email encryption, the data is encrypted on the sender’s system. Only the intended recipient will be able to decrypt and read it. Nobody in between can read the message or tamper with it. End-to-end email encryption provides the highest level of confidentiality and protection to your email communication. Most popular Email services do use a level of encryption, mostly SSL/TLS....

SIM cards hold so much information and it is frustrating and depressing to lose all this information. There are mobile applications that allow you to retrieve deleted data from your card, or that allow to copy contacts or other data you have stored in your SIM. Even though there are plenty of them out there, only a handful give the desired results. In this post, we make you familiar with the five SIM management tools that can be used without any trouble....

Bluetooth is a wireless technology that allows electronic devices to exchange data over short distances. These devices take in smartphones, portable speakers, tablets, PDAs, smart watches, wearable fitness monitors – etcetera. Ever since its invention in 1994 by Dutch electrical engineer Jaap Haartsen, Bluetooth technology has become part of our lives. There are an estimated 8.2 Bluetooth enabled devices in the world today. It’s in our houses, cars, pockets, around our wrists....

In this post, I’ll take you through 7 of the best chess game apps you can download on your iPhone. Read through and let us know which one tops your rank. READ MORE: How to Delete or Uninstall Apps on Your iPhone Best Chess Game Apps for iPhone 1. Chess – Play & Learn This is one of the most popular chess apps you can find on the internet. With this app, you can play chess online with over 80 million other players and fight to be top of the leaderboard....

The post compiles as many Tecno smartphones that are currently in the market and their prices. TECNO Smartphones and Their Prices Tecno Camon 15 Premier – N95,000Tecno Camon 15 Air – N77,000Tecno Camon 15 – N70,000Tecno Pouvoir 3 Air – N38,000Tecno Camon 12 Air – N52,000Tecno Pop 3 – N30,000Tecno Spark 4 – N45,000Tecno Pouvoir 3 Plus – N59,000Tecno Camon 12 Pro – N71,000Tecno Camon 12 – N60,000Tecno Spark 4 Air – N45,000Tecno Phantom 9 – N94,000Tecno Pop 2 Plus – N33,000Tecno Spark 3 Pro – N42,500Tecno Pop 2F – N27,000Tecno Pop 2 Power – N75,000Tecno Pouvoir 3 – N38,000Tecno Spark 3 (16 + 1) – N36,000Tecno Spark 3 (32 + 2)- N45,000Tecno Camon 11 Pro – N73,000Tecno Pouvoir 2 Pro – N59,000...

CuriosityStream is an online on-demand streaming platform that hosts thousands of documentaries. On the platform, you get to watch various forms of documentaries including originals and exclusives. Think of it like YouTube, or Netflix, but for documentaries. This post takes a stroll through the CuriosityStream platform, exploring and reviewing content, features, and more. Content on CuriosityStream CuriosityStream has a number of content categories and sub-categories. The categories include Science, History, Technology, Nature, Society, Lifestyle, and Kids’ content....

Abeg launched in 2019. According to the CEO of Abeg, the startup was modeled after Cash App, an American mobile payment service owned by Square (a company founded by Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey). So, simply put, Abeg is the Cash app for Africa. About Abeg App Abeg launched as a peer-to-peer platform where a user can request money from another Abeg user on their contact list and can send money to anyone with an Abeg tag (like a username)....

Instead the film and design company has announced a new website and reel that are modern and refined to capture the company’s achievements in Film, TV and Design. Teased as the #addmayaIPO, the Improved Portfolio Online is an expression of what they stand for and showcases the breadth of the work they’ve done since inception. I know you are disappointed, but so are we. The possibility of a small firm rising to IPO stardom could have inspired many other startups currently working on their products and services in the dark corners of their garages and their university dorms....

For perspective, Airtel Kenya is the second largest mobile services operator in Kenya with a 16.9 million subscriber base. Safaricom still holds the crown with 41.4 million registered users. Telkom Kenya is third with 3.4 million registered users. Then follows Equitel with 1.4 million and finally Jamii Telecom with 272,392 users. According to data from the Communications Authority of Kenya, we have a total of 37.2m registered mobile money users....

Also Read: M.2 form factor used in Solid State Drives: Everything you need to know Design and Specs The 970 EVO Plus is equipped with V5 flash which provides performance improvements of up to 3.5 GB/s throughput sequential reads. All this at a meager 1.2V I/O power rating. The new V5 flash has support for the Toggle DDR 4.0 interface operating at 1.4 GT/s. Die densities of the EVO Plus are at 256 gigabits....

Enter mobile browser-based VPNs. Opera got all of excited when they incorporated a free VPN feature in their Mobile browser until they discontinued it in May this year to everyone’s surprise! While Opera kept the VPN feature on its desktop browser, it still left a lot of users looking for choices on mobile. I recently discovered Aloha mobile browser on Twitter. The browser claims to use hardware acceleration displays page up to 2x times faster than other mobile browsers....

If you’re unfamiliar with AMD FreeSync, in a nutshell, it’s a method for synchronizing your graphics processor with your screen’s refresh rate. This prevents the screen from tearing and stuttering that can occur as a result of your GPU not constantly pushing out the same amount of frames when you’re playing a game. Unlike NVIDIA’s variable refresh rate technology G-Sync, AMD FreeSync is an open standard that’s free to implement....

In anticipation of Apple’s SmartWatch that been rumored to be called the iWatch, Samsung announced the Galaxy Gear — its own smart watch — last week at IFA in Berlin. By releasing a product in that category, Samsung would have had a head-start over Apple and put to shame all those Apple fanboys who have long painted the South Korean Electronics manufacturer as an Apple copycat! With such a strategic early entry into a market that analysts believe has the potential to explode like Smartphones and tablets, Samsung could easily avoid losing billions in lawsuits from the likes of Apple that could claim design infringements as was the case with its Galaxy line of smartphones....

Maybe you want to impress your friends or maybe you want to make the most of the popular messaging App around town, here are 5 great tricks and tips that you won’t regret knowing. #1. Hide “Last Seen” Timestamp For some reason, some people don’t like this “last seen” feature on Whatsapp. This feature helps whoever wants to send a text to know whether or not your Whatsapp is active since Whatsapp isn’t like old-school chat Apps with “online”, “offline” status....

Recent changes in policies aimed at improving and encouraging cross-border trade and interaction between the East African countries mean you are more likely to find yourself strolling well into the neighboring country with little restriction. So say you’re in Kenya for a short visit and you are not too keen on spending loads of cash in roaming charges, what data options do you have? While there are a couple of telecom operators in the country, there are a few factors to consider before you make your choice....

Oppo officially launched in Nigeria in April 2019 – even though some of its smartphone devices have been in the market before then. In this article, we will single out the best 5 Oppo smartphones released so far into the Nigerian market. Read more: How Oppo is Staking its claim in the Nigerian Smartphone Market Oppo F11 Pro One very unique feature of the Oppo F11 Pro is the pop-up selfie shooter that is attached to the device....

Visa and Airtel will build on the existing capabilities of Airtel’s Mobile Money service, allowing subscribers to use their Airtel Money account to pay in stores and online wherever Visa is accepted. Additionally, customers can withdraw money and make payments from their Airtel Money account using their Airtel Money Visa companion card. “Mobile payments can transform the lives of people throughout Africa who commonly have access to a mobile phone, but not a bank,” said Vish Sowani, Vice President of MNO Partnerships for Visa....

Solid State Drives (SSDs) are designed with NAND technology and unlike Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), they don’t have moving parts but rather make use of flash memory to exponentially improve their read/write speeds. Recommending SSDs isn’t so cut and dry as you might expect. Before splashing out on an SSD, its vital you do some digging about what will work for you. Different PCs support various interfaces, and form factors that there’s no one-size fits all....

Asides these features, the Chrome 71 includes fixes to as much as 43 security vulnerabilities present on the browser’s previous edition, Chrome 70. Well, here’s a look at the three new security features: Autoplay Audio Blocking With the aid of this feature, websites that automatically play synthesised audio speeches will be having a tough time. These sites implement speech synthesis API to convert texts to auto-playing audios resulting in tech scams....