On 11th June 2020, Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani read the Country’s 2020/2021 Financial Year Budget. There have also been looming conversations and buzz around the proposed Digital Tax issue that will greatly affect tech startups, SMEs, service providers...
Instagram is now focusing on Stories and a lot of efforts have been directed to this feature they cloned from Snapchat.
A ton of features have been added to Instagram Stories since its launch including music lyrics, polls, gifs, new set...
The PlayStation 4 has been a success for Sony. It has managed to sell over 110 million units since its first release at the end of 2013. There are several reasons for this: It was initially more powerful than...
This past week Justice Mary Kasango delivered a Copyright Infringement decision on a case regarding Safaricom’s Okoa Jahazi product.
The case is Christopher N. Omare and Michael Otachi t/a Omare and Partners v Safaricom Limited available on Kenya Law Reports online.
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Back in 2013, Safaricom introduced a product that allowed its customers to share data bundles akin to Sambaza airtime. It was a needed development that worked as advertised. But it would not live for long.
In between that period, a...
The best thing about Android smartphones is the flexibility to customize and personalize the device according to your preferences.
Apple's iOS is slowly catching up with iOS 14 but for now Android is the perfect operating system to go nuts...
I've said before that the iPhone SE 2020 is a big problem to Android smartphone manufacturers. However, not all is lost since they have time to catch up and they can do that easily if they wanted to.
Samsung is...
A few months ago, AMD teased their upcoming Ryzen 4000 CPUs for laptops. This was the next step forward since they have been giving Intel a hard time on the desktop front with their high-performance CPUs at all price...
We are living in strange times. Apple does not have the most expensive phone on the mass market. That honour goes to the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra which starts at $1,400 and can go as high as $1600!
That is...
Last week, Apple announced the long rumored iPhone SE 2ND Generation and it was quite the surprise.
This was a sequel to the much loved iPhone SE from 2016 which was geared for those Ios users that love small phones....
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced people to work from home, which means they have to use video chat to collaborate with their workmates.
Setting aside the need for Wi-Fi in your house or the type of video conferencing software to...
vivo recently entered the Kenyan market and already have some of their smartphones on shelves in their retail stores. Their Y series and V series are available locally but the focus of this article is on the potential that...
We use our smartphones for so many things and one of them is gaming. Gaming is such an important part of the smartphone experience to the point where they have their own tab on app stores.
It is not uncommon...
Third-party app clients are always the best, they bring new and unique features that are lacking in the main app. We've had excellent third party apps for social apps like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. The features of these third-party apps...
We are essentially in a duopoly market for smartphones. When people are either upgrading or buying a new smartphone, they consider either to get an Android phone or an iPhone. The two platforms have matured to the point where...
Mobile phones have been around for years. In Kenya, the communication devices have lived in our pockets for more than two decades, having outgrown their exclusivity back in the 90s when they were reserves for the rich, and when...
During my college days, I managed to make one friend who, as he would humorously put it, grew up in a struggling family and situation. The one thing that kept him going and yearning for a better life was...
Attempting to get back on this and make it a regular article since the first (and only) one in 2018, a personal fave, The Bitcoin Bubble and Other Stories; Number 5 will shock you!
Looking into the crystal ball, together...
One of the biggest differentiators between phones of different price categories is the system on a chip (SoC). Flagship phones have the best SoC's like the Apple A13 or the Snapdragon 865 or the Kirin 990. Cheaper phones usually...
Buying phones on a contract like Americans do is something we have been waiting for for so long, but I have high levels of confidence it is not going to happen soon for obvious reasons. This, however, does not...
A couple of days ago, it emerged that many loan apps were running their trade normally, with their tools live in Google Play Store many months after Alphabet detailed a set of regulations for financial apps. The rules tasked...
New Year. New Decade. We saw smartphones being announced right before and during this years CES - with most of them being concept phones and smartphone manufacturers assuring users that they'll be refined more before shipping to the public.
Android...
Alright. People have been subjected to a new con game where fraudsters use Safaricom’s 072200000 line to reach out to customers, and lie about their intentions for a sole purpose: steal from them by emptying their M-PESA wallets. This...
Google announced a beta version for its latest mobile operating system, Android 10(at that time it went with Android Q) in March last year. The final beta release was announced at Google's I/0 2019 was slated for 21 phones...
Every year, (2016, 2017, 2018) we look back at the year that has been in terms of progress, big headlines, stories of impact and importance in the ICT sector with a focus on the legal changes, interesting cases, digital...
WhatsApp is a very popular messaging platform. It has over 1.5 billion monthly active users and it is estimated that 12 million Kenyans actively use it monthly.
There are reasons why it became popular. It was available on feature phones...
I've used quite a number of tech products in 2019 and I have several favourites in different categories.
Sharing photos on Google Photos has been a challenge - there haven't been any well-thought ideas around this important task apart from the shared album. Google has come up with a new way - how about adding a chat...
I have been a CBA (now NCBA) Loop user for a while now. The product, which targets young people, and has an unquestionably one of the best mobile banking apps in Kenya is good but has limitations, such as...
Important things Kenyans need to know about the recently introduced data protection law.
In the spirit of remaining relevant in the mobile data market, Telkom Kenya announced a new product named Gbambe. It is a data subscription that lasts a cool month, and the good part, at least in theory, is that...
WhatsApp is an incredibly popular social network in Kenya. It is used by millions of Kenyans daily to talk to each other or when they try to exit those groups they hate.
This is why networks use WhatsApp to market...
Safaricom announced unaudited financial results for the six months ended September 30, 2019. The numbers were impressive after the carrier made a killing from its mobile money product M-PESA that grew by 18.2 percent to KES 41.97 billion. Other...
Kenya TV stations have been airing their content on YouTube, live, for an extended period now. This has been beneficial to a lot of people, especially groups with access to unlimited internet. It is a simple solution that does...
When manufacturers are on the planning stage to create a new smartphone, there are compromises to make at a given pricepoint. They play with delicate balances that balance competent features to making money from their venture and leveraging on...
