As mobile landscape in Kenya transitions from “dumb” feature phones to smartphones, the importance of apps with local content grows every day. Apps enable consumers to discover what’s new around them, quickly order and use a variety of services,...
As mobile landscape in Kenya transitions from “dumb” feature phones to smartphones, the need for apps with local content grows every day. Apps enable consumers to discover what’s new around them, quickly order and use a variety of services,...
After close to a two year absence from the Microsoft platform, HTC unveiled the HTC One M8 for Windows. It's the same devices as their current, award winning Android flagship device, the HTC One M8, running the latest version of...
Microsoft has recorded a good impact for their entry level smartphone Lumia 520 across the world with a reported 12 million Lumia 520 activations so far. This makes for over 60% of their smartphones sales. The second segment being...
A corrupt SD card could turn out to be a nightmare for many specially photographers. SD cards are widely used in many devices including digital cameras to store thousands of photographs. Such cards make use of the non-volatile technology...
With the global unemployment rate remaining high in the last few years, pinching cents and keeping a tight budget is as crucial as ever. You’ve already acknowledged this by organizing files and sorting bills month after month, and you know...
Application development has come of age for many, particularly now that it's evident that mobile first is the best approach. Ask Instagram and Vine. Now OLX is now a global company with usage in 40 plus countries. The target is...
With the ever-growing technology day by day, we have seen various advanced email client applications. Lotus Notes and MS Outlook are two most advanced and widely used email platforms across various organizations today. Lotus Notes is a product from...
Mac OS X is based on one of the most stable architecture of the operating systems. It is a Unix-based operating system from Apple, and is intended for only Mac based systems. It provides various advanced features and technologies...
Technology has made possible quit many things, top among them is commerce. It widens the reach we already have with tools available to us mostly for free thanks to social media and other free to use platforms. I will...
The Nokia X2 came out quite fast after the first version, the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL at just four months down the line. Those in the know are aware that the move is justified after the...
MS Entourage is an email client, which was developed by Microsoft for older versions of Mac OS. The first of its kind was included in the MS Office 2001 suite for Mac OS. Microsoft continued to improve its feature...
We are just a few hours from the keynote address of Google I/O 2014.
There's so much to expect from Google's annual developer-centric conference and here's a quick round up of what you should expect from later in the day...
With a platform like OLX users are bound to get the impression that OLX owes them quite a lot in terms of ensuring the genuineness of the buyers and seller they are going to meet on there. That is...
Nokia has been teasing of an announcement coming tomorrow early morning London time. This has been characterized by a timer in green with an accompanying image, also in green that is aimed at creating a mystery around the new...
It's tough out here, particularly when you are competing with a company that came while you were the sole service provider and watched them take your throne and leave you out in the cold. We know this scenario all...
Most Kenyans access the internet on the mobile phone, and the larger number is the one that accessed the internet the first time on the mobile phone. The smartphone is increasingly becoming a main computing device with development in...
Rugged stands for ‘manufactured to withstand rough handling’ in official dictionary terms. That’s not much different from how rugged computing device manufacturers describe their products.
VDC Research says that the market for rugged devices is in transition mode, and is...
More often than not both business and personal users end up asking themselves, “How can printer ink possibly be so expensive?”Taking into account the size of a printer cartridge, ink can sometimes seem like the most costly thing on...
Nokia is now mainstream with three platforms, well four. Lumia Windows Phones, Android Powered Nokia X, Asha Platform Ashas and Series 40 Ashas (there may still be some series 30 dumb phones) but those only get mentions when one...
The World Cup is upon us! Yes, when we simply say World Cup you know which one we mean. Not the Athletics World Cup (yes there's such a thing) or the Rugby World Cup or the Cricket World Cup....
As more people adopt a digital wallet purchasing method, you might wonder if it's something you should do too. Is it safe to store your personal information digitally? Is it any more convenient to use near field communication to...
Nokia (It was still Nokia then) launched the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL at Mobile World Congress earlier in the year and they had a message to both consumers and critics. They were here to take...
Email has become a critical tool for organizations of all sizes. It is usually the primary method that businesses use to communicate, as well as share digital data with their internal and external stakeholders. Furthermore, there are a growing...
In some unusual situations like you unfortunately got some water splashed over your Mac, got it power down all of a sudden, got some crucial files deleted unknowingly, and the like, the odds for data loss are only a...
Safaricom has already laid out 770 kilometers of fiber cable within Kenya with 640 ongoing, Nairobi takes the bulk of this. The 640 km that is ongoing according to Safaricom will go to other big towns, Nairobi, Nakuru, Mombasa...
I am that guy who spoils the party just when it's about to begin, once in a while. Nokia has a new brand ambassador in Kenya. But they have not announced it yet, neither has the brand ambassador come...
OLX is now almost a household name in Kenya after a serious campaign in the media to create awareness. There are people who will find the process of posting an advert for an item on sale quite easy. That...
Optical storage media, such as CD, DVD are frequently used for storing files permanently since they are portable and do not require much to spend on. These inexpensive digital media are fragile and often get scratched when used frequently...
Selling online is not quite established in Kenya, one of the main reasons is trust. This comes up as a result of lack of physical addressing in Kenya, you cannot get an address of a business or individual that...
A recent survey done by Nielsen Kenya has findings that Kenyans could well be sitting on billions of unused inventory that they could easily turn to cash. Nielsen reports that some Kshs 158 billion worth of unused goods in...
Mobile has made inroads into almost every aspect of our lives mainly due to penetration and the intimacy of the mobile phone. ABI Research predicts that by 2019 46% of cash registers will be Mobile point-of-sale devices.
These are either...
Vincent Mutiso is just another Kenyan who happened to see good tidings come his way after just testing a service without really having faith in it's output. The service happens to be OLX Kenya online classifieds website. Vincent who...
By 2018, messages sent to and from applications will bring in revenues worth $60 billion. According to Juniper A2P (Application to Person) messages currently rake in $55 billion. SMS provides organization with a reliable tool to contact customers over...
