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NRG Radio Slapped With Demand Letter Over Use of Eliud Kipchoge’s Brand Rights on Social Media
A local radio station has been slapped with a demand letter for breach of copyright and trademark rights that are related to the world...
Visa Appoints Former Oracle Country Leader as East Africa’s General Manager
Payments corporation Visa has appointed Corine Mbiaketcha as the Vice President and Country Manager for Visa in East Africa. Corine’s new position will be...
Google Photos Loophole Gives ‘Newer’ iPhones Free Unlimited Original Quality Uploads
Google Photos is one Google service that is loved by many. Millions of users around the world use it to back and sync their...
Safaricom’s Innovation Arm Alpha Allegedly Faces an “Uncertain Future”
Safricom Alpha, the Kenyan telco's innovation wing has had its ups and downs and now it is being reported that it has an "uncertain...
OPPO A9 2020 and OPPO A5 2020 Officially Launched in Kenya
OPPO has just launched its latest phones, the OPPO A9 2020 and OPPO A5 2020 to the Kenyan market, which come with new and...
Here is Why Little Shuttle Stopped Operating, But SWVL is Going Strong
E-taxi services are ubiquitous because they disrupted a market that needed a shakeup: traditional taxi. In Kenya, the likes of Little Cab, Bolt, and...
Microsoft Is Shutting down Windows Phone 8.1’s App Store in December
All good things must come to an end. Microsoft is shutting down the Windows Phone 8.1 app store this coming December. The Redmond-based tech giant...
Airtel Risks Fines From Yesterday’s Network Outage
Yesterday, Airtel suffered a day long service outage which affected their over 12 million subscribers.
According to Business Daily, the network is now risking being punished by...
TECNO Camon 12 Series Launches in Kenya at Attractive Prices
The TECNO Camon 12 series has been launched in Kenya at very attractive prices.
Cyberthreats in Kenya Worryingly Increase by Two Fold Last Quarter
Cyberthreats are an ever looming problem in the Internet-focused life that we are used to in this day and age. We have bodies with...
Safaricom Gunning for Zuku’s Top Spot as it Gains 4 Times as Many Subscribers
Communications Authority of Kenya has released their latest Sector Statistics for the period between April and June and we get to see the changes in the...
Italian Football Team AS Roma Launches Official Swahili Twitter Account
Italian Serie A football team, AS Roma(Associazione Sportiva Roma), just launched an official Swahili Twitter account.
The Twitter account joins AS Roma's twitter accounts that...
TECNO Spark 4 and Spark 4 Air Officially Launched in Kenya
TECNO has officially launched the next smartphones in its Spark series - namely the TECNO Spark 4 and the Spark 4 Air in Kenya. TECNO...
Facebook Libra Head Claims Libra is Not in “Jeopardy”
Facebook launched Libra, their cryptocurrency platform back in June this year and they had on board a lot of partners. However, these partners started...
Huawei Sees 29% Growth in Smartphone Shipments Despite U.S. Trade Ban
The trade ban on Huawei hasn't affected them that much, at least according to their third-quarter(Q3) financial results. The Chinese tech giant just posted...
Airtel Kenya is Currently Experiencing Service Outage [UPDATE: ISSUES FULLY RESOLVED]
UPDATE 2: Outage has been resolved fully.
We are pleased to inform you that the network issues has been resolved and services restored.
You can now...
Huawei Updates the P30 Lite With More RAM and a New Camera for Kenyan Market
Huawei launched the P30 series back in April and the P30 lite was their 'budget' option in that lineup. It had pretty good specs...
Kenya’s Communications Authority is Developing a Draft Framework for TV White Spaces
Yesterday, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), Strathmore University, and other ICT policymakers and friends of the industry had an interesting discussion about TV...
Heavily Leaked Google Pixel 4 Features 90Hz Display, Updated Cameras
The long awaited (and massively leaked) Google Pixel 4 has been launched today by Google. There has been so much drama around this phone,...
The Best and Funniest Tweets from the Made by Google Event
This evening was Google's Made by Google event where they announced a myriad of new devices- from the overly leaked Pixel 4 to the...
Ghana Directs Telcos To Stop Offering Voice and Data Bundles That Expire
The Ghanaian government has issued a directive to telecommunication operators in the country to stop the practice of "expired" voice and data bundles that...
Facebook Is Locking out Users for Reporting Accounts Impersonating Them
Is someone impersonating your Facebook account or you notice a fake or scammy Facebook account, the giant social media platform will reportedly lock you...
Kenya Bans Importation of Second Hand Electronic Gadgets as From Next Year
Kenya has banned the importation of second hand electronic gadgets into the country from January 2020 as reported by People Daily.
"The move to ban import...
Live Sport Content to Look Out For on Showmax in October
Live sports is one of the biggest reasons why people use their sister platform (DStv) so it made sense to carry that feature forward...
[Updated with roadmap] Xiaomi to Start Global Rollout of MIUI 11 This Week
Xiaomi is slated to begin rolling out its latest UI, the MIUI 11 to users worldwide starting this week. The rollout will start from...
Kenya Power Cautions Telcos Who Illegally Lay Fibre Optic Cables on their Poles
Fibre Optic usage in Kenya has grown over the past few years and that means a lot of these cables have been laid around...
Kenya National Addressing System Imminent as Development Draws to a Close
In 2016, the government of Kenya and key stakeholders revealed that they was going to set up a National Addressing System (NAS) for the...
Kenya ICT Ministry Concludes Review of The National ICT Policy
The National ICT Policy was proposed a few years ago. The policy was first presented to ICT CS Joe Mucheru in 2016 and featured...
Safaricom Becomes Eliud Kipchoge’s Ambassador in Successful Historic Fete
Early this week, Safaricom had begun teasing about its new logo for its mobile money service, M-PESA which currently has over 26 million users...
Huawei to Unveil an All-screen Smartphone Next Week
Coming in hot off of the launch of the Mate 30 series, Huawei is set to unveil a new all-screen smartphone next week. In...
