Month: February 2016

Hello readers, each week (from this one), I’ll be looking to highlight apps made by Kenyan developers who believe they ...

Telegram is very young, close to 3 years old and has experienced a really good run. Back in March, the ...

Snapchat is one of the youngest new age social networks but has already amassed quite a following with over 200 ...

The app drawer is one often overlooked but incredibly important part of the smartphone. Android smartphones to be particular. It ...

In releasing FY 2014/15 results, Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore stated that nearly 42% of Kenya's GDP was transacted using the mobile ...

via Tycoon news on Twitter Controversial videos tend to get viral pretty quick on social media and in this iteration, ...

Obi Worldphone has unveiled its latest smartphone at the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The device, designed by ...

Orange is partnering with Google as it seeks to reactivate its presence in several countries in the Middle East and ...

Virtual Reality is the next frontier that is being pursued by the major tech companies with a goal of making ...

The government recently announced that the consortia of Moi University– JP SA Couto and Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology ...

Alcatel finally revealed its new Idol smartphones yesterday. The Idol 4 and Idol 4S, are an upgrade of last year's ...

In August 2015, the University of Nairobi launched an accelerator called the Africa Technology and Innovation Accelerator, AFTIA. An accelerator is similar to ...

The Chinese are at it again. Vivo, a smartphone brand from the Asian country has made a name for itself ...

Once in a while, we get to see random photos or videos going viral on social media and specifically on ...

  If you are keen enough, our report on the launch of the Idol 4 and Idol 4S does not ...

As has been always the case every calendar year since 2011, Samsung's Galaxy S range of flagship smartphones is usually ...

We are in the age of fast loading pages. The days of waiting for pages to load is so in ...

Mobile payments are going to be a big thing if they are not already. Apple Pay just became available in Apple's ...

One of the most annoying things about smartphones other than their unquenchable thirst for more power/battery is their aggressive data ...

Facebook Messenger has grown in its 5 or so years in its existence from its integration in Facebook Chat to ...

While Huawei is not expected tp announced its 2016 flagship smartphone at Mobile World Congress next week, we may see ...

Rejoice Galaxy Note 5 owners! Samsung has started seeding the much-awaited Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update to the device starting with ...

In 2014, the Kenya Wildlife Society announced it will employ the use of drones to fight poaching in Kenya. Poaching ...

There is no shortage of leaks, rumours, hearsay and everything you can imagine on Samsung's upcoming 2016 flagship smartphone, the ...

In June 2015, Airtel Africa CEO Christian De Faria argued that over-the-top content providers such as Facebook, Telegram, Google and Whatsapp ...

  One of the great things about social media is how it has made it easy for general public to ...

One of the visually core features of Instagram is the like button and since it is expressed in numbers, more ...

Safer Internet Day is described as the day "to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile ...

In October 2014, Google updated its Gmail mobile application to support IMAP, Exchange ActiveSync and rival services Yahoo Mail and Outlook. ...

In January, the Kenya Film and Classification Board announced it planned to regulate video streaming service Netflix. The announcement followed ...

After a serious scare last year that was caused by the infamous Stagefright bug, a serious vulnerability that affected the ...

A video posted on the YouTube channel of Samsung Indonesia went viral after a Galaxy S6 Edge+ was shown being ...

Uganda has been having election fever since last year and its citizens have shown their interest towards the election on ...

June 2015 marked the global deadline for digital migration, where television signals migrated from analogue to digital.  The deadline was ...

GIFs have become an integral part of major social networks and due to their "lifelike" nature, they are quite popular. ...