Posts

In its place, we have a market that is being flooded with Bluetooth headsets in various forms. From Apple’s Airpods to the less fancy ones, all in a bid to cater for everyone. To bring a level of control/standard to this new explosion, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (BSIG) at the (ongoing) CES 2020 announced that a few new capabilities will be coming to the Bluetooth platform. Read More: The Updated Guide to Bluetooth...

In the banking world, customers put trust in a bank that has measures that improve security of their money and convenience. Most banks have sorted the issue of convenience with agent banking outlets to keep the queues at the banks short and serve customers from more conveniently. The reality of account attacks has banks getting more secure measures. Account security based on signatures and PINs has worked for the most part in many banks....

While developers of popular apps like YouTube, Messenger, Skype, Twitter, Chrome, etc. have adopted Dark modes on their apps, WhatsApp, despite its popularity and billions of active users is yet to introduce the feature on its instant messaging platform. On previous Betas though, references to Dark mode were made but WhatsApp didn’t follow through with the feature. Now, according to WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo), WhatsApp has resumed developing Dark mode on its app for Android....

Google Drive now boasts of 190 million 30 day active users not even registered but active. Google has also integrated Quick Office and Drive. Quick Office is now built into Docs and Sheets which means you can now natively edit Microsoft Office files from any app. With this feature, you no longer need to worry about converting files or which app you are using to edit. When you edit with Quick Office and save, it automatically converts the file to the Google Docs format meaning you can continue to edit the document later in docs without the need to convert or save....

It’s usually something like this: when you want to make an online payment you either have to use PayPal or one of the several debit cards. But when you want to pay for a local product back home, you may have to use mobile money or cold hard cash. But wait, for business people who want to transact business with China. They have to go through tedious bank wire procedures....

Equi Duuka is an agency banking model that enables access to Equity bank at your nearest location. With this set up, you can access your bank from anywhere so long as there is an agent available. The agents are equipped with point of sale machines that work like Automatic Teller Machines. With this, you are able to deposit money, withdraw money and also send money. The agents are paid commission off every transaction that is made....

At the beginning of the year, Files Go got its beta channel that allowed early adopters to opt-in on potentially less stable builds of the app, but get an early look at the new features being baked in before the general public. So far the changes to both look and name have reached these beta users. The app also just hit the 50,000,000 download milestone today, so it’s pretty popular....

The internet-enabled devices will sell at an incredibly low price — $25 to be exact. Really $25 smartphone? Yes Feature phones still dominate the emerging markets for one simple reason — cost. Smartphones such as Samsung’s Galaxy line, or those from the likes of Apple, HTC, LG are priced at high-price points way out of reach for most mobile users in emerging markets. As such, many users are still cut off from the internet as their feature phones can only text and call....

Watching TV online especially in Uganda isn’t equivalent to watching it on your good-old TV at home. That’s because the internet was never meant to be used for watching TV. In fact, most of things that are possible today on the internet were never thought to be possible or rather designed for the internet. But alas, the internet is here and it runs our lives. Here are some of the possible ways of watching Ugandan TV live online....

Google Chat also known as Rich Communication Service(RCS) is a messaging service akin to Apple’s iMessages or even Whatsapp or Telegram that enables users to text over WiFi or mobile internet without using any of their Airtime credit. Google has been wanting to introduce the service to its ecosystem, however, smartphone fragmentation and mobile Telecom partnerships have been a challenge. Google has been wanting to get Telecoms onboard so that Chat works just like the good-old SMS service but over data instead of the traditional telecom network....

Since the device isn’t available in Africa, We combed our favorite writers and blogs across the globe to bring you the first impressions with the device. Design: The design is blunt with nothing immediately striking especially at a time when awesome design actually matters with the likes of HTC One and iPhone 5s taking on premium design. Even Samsung with its Plastic Phones is considering a better design. May be considering the pricing and functionality of the device, the design doesn’t matter Camera: Once again there is nothing glaringly different about the Camera but a promise of crisp images with an advanced new lens and optical image stabilization....

StarTimes launched 2010 and faced DSTV heads on. They were able to compete favorably because their packages are affordable. It doesn’t cost a lot to buy the decoder, there is no dish to call a technician to fix, and no need to bother about signal interruption when there is a change in weather (rain or heavy wind). The increasing popularity of StarTimes in Nigeria prompted Multichoice (DSTV’S parent company) to respond in 2012 with GoTV – a cheaper and very easy to set up Pay tv....

From medieval times, African games were predominantly board-based, however, their popularity was derided during the colonial era, they were treated as barbaric and archaic. The waning popularity of these games was further worsened by the introduction of foreign games such as netball, football, rugby that have since become a standard for gaming. The difference between Traditional African games and foreign games is the contextual relevance they hold. Much as the foreign games are widely played all over the continent, there has been a surge in demand for locally produced content and relevant content; entertainment, news et al....

After registering for the service, you simply have to enter your location, choose a restaurant within your location, check through the various menus or jump straight to what you particularly want, make an order and the restaurant delivers to your door step. You pay cash on delivery and food is delivered at no extra fee. You can also order on the go using the HelloFood app available for iPhone and Android when you aren’t on your desk or cannot access a computer....

In this post, I will be going through some of these features in the hopes of giving you some form of perspective should you be in the market for one of these watches for yourself or as a gift for a loved one. Without further ado, let’s dive right into these Redmi Watch 2 Lite features. Bigger display So I have been in the Xiaomi Mi Band train for the past few years have used the Mi Band 4, 5, and 6, only switching to the Honor Band 6 recently....

All these value added services however have the drawback that they require active participation of the telecom subscribers. With analytics it is possible for telecom companies to earn revenue from the passive activities of the subscribers on their networks. Analytics is the computational analysis of data and statistics. It is an essential tool for many businesses. Most businesses have to deal with two problems in analytics; getting the data and analyzing the data....

Honor is not just a smartphone brand, it has wearables, laptops and IoTs, the Magic 3 series will have a seamless integration with their ecosystem of products. In this series, there is the Honor Magic 3, Magic 3 Pro and 3 Pro+ which will all be featuring a similar design but vary widely in specs with the Pro and Pro+ version obviously having more premium features. Honor Magic 3 series Specs Read More: Galaxy Z Fold 3 Adds an Under Display Camera, S Pen, IPX8 Water Resistance and One UI 3 Furthermore, there are some obvious differences between the two models even in how they are built....

But did you know that, despite all these coming in different forms and packages, they can be used along side each other? Do you know the relevance of any of the three if at all it comes embedded to your device? Find out today. HotKnot Vs NFC Vs Bluetooth: What are they? Developed by Mediatek, the Taiwanese chip vendor, HotKnot is a technology that allows the touchscreens of smartphones, in which it comes, to interact and quickly share data with each other....

Fingerprint authentication technology was properly introduced on smartphones by Apple a couple of years ago when the Cupertino-based tech giant launched the iPhone 5S. Afterwards, many other OEMs (as always) followed through with Apple’s innovation by placing the regular standalone fingerprint readers either on the rear or front of their smartphones. This continued for years until 2018 … when a particular Chinese smartphone manufacturer saw normal as boring and decided to take the fingerprint reader a notch higher....

These codes can also come in very handy when you are traveling. Google and several other websites provide you with verification backup codes that you can use to log in as a last resort. These are access codes that you can only use one time each in case you lose access to your OTP delivery media. Once you use one code, it is done for good and cannot be used again....