Facebook, last April, announced plans of bringing Apple Music to the Messenger platform. With probably all preparation done, we now have the service secured in its existence; with the streaming music service formally available to the social network’s Messenger system users. To experience the music, you simply have to search for the Apple Music bot in the messenger app. When you find it, and open it, you’ll be prompted to get started which will let the bot recognize your profile information and get you ready to start....

WhatsApp has announced, via a blog post , that private and secure one-to-one voice and video calls are now available on its desktop app. Before now, users could only make and receive calls if they were using the app on a mobile device. But that has changed. With the increasing use of WhatsApp calls as a mode of communication , it makes sense that the owners make it more accessible to the users....

Chatting face-to-face live is perfect for special moments when you want to see and hear the voices of people you care about most. Facebook just announced the introduction of video chat in Messenger Lite , the slimmed down version of Messenger for Android intended for people with older Android devices or slower Internet connections. Messenger Lite is under 10MB in size, making it fast to install and quick to start up while offering core messaging capabilities like sending text, photos, links, and audio calls to people with either Messenger Lite or Messenger....

Ride-hailing app, SafeBoda has added a savings feature on its platform where users can earn interest daily on their SB Wallet balances. This is coming almost a week after they got licenses from the Central Bank to offer payment services in Uganda. In the app’s latest update, users will earn 10% interest per annum when their daily balance is above 5,000 shillings. The beauty of this is that the interest is updated daily....

A lot of benefits come with subscribing to the YouTube Premium plan. First off, you can get rid of those annoying ads that pop up while you are in the middle of something really interesting. You also get access to other premium services like the ability to download videos and YouTube Music and get a higher-quality 1080p Premium video option, amongst other things. YouTube Premium has a variety of plans that users can choose from....

With over two billion active users, WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. However, it can occasionally experience glitches and crashes, just like any other app. The “WhatsApp has unfortunately stopped working” error message is one of the most common issues WhatsApp users encounter. I have personally encountered this error about three times and I have come up with 15 ways how you can fix this issue....

Streaming music on Spotify can be quite data-consuming, especially if you love high-quality sounds and enjoy a ton of video podcasts. We are in an era of streaming almost everything on our mobile devices and music is just one part of it. Thankfully, Spotify has built ways through which you can seamlessly save data by turning on data savings. This is particularly handy if you don’t mind switching between settings during specific times....

Two years ago, I had a nasty incident. I got robbed by thugs at night. I know, mum said I should never walk at night. But it wasn’t even late. It was just 8:00 pm and I was coming from work fully loaded with laptop in my bag and smartphone in my pocket. The thugs didn’t just take my laptop and smartphone, they also left me with an injured eye. Terrible!...

Android smartphones come with loads of features that will help improve your experience, some of which you know about. But there is a whole lot of other hidden features that you probably don’t know about. Before we begin, you should know that we tried out these features on a smartphone running the Android 7.0 operating system. They should work on higher versions of the operating system (Android), but we’re not sure of older versions....

Believe it or not, we are slowly starting to live up to realities we only saw in fictional movies a couple of decades ago. I know you can list several fictional movies where characters had health monitoring sensors attached to their bodies and had real-time data on demand. Now that we are here, what kind of data are our real-life sensors capable of harvesting? During the 2022 CES, Abbott, a biotech company, announced their latest lineup of wearable sensors branded as Lingo....

“ Abeg “, in Nigeria, is probably the most popular and used word. It’s a word every Nigerian has used at some point when asking someone (a friend or family member) for a favor. Muheez Akanni, Michael Okoh, and Dare Adekoya decided to tap into that to build what it calls the “Abeg app”, a platform to send and request/receive money from friends and family, seamlessly. Abeg launched in 2019. According to the CEO of Abeg, the startup was modeled after Cash App, an American mobile payment service owned by Square (a company founded by Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey)....

4G LTE is becoming an essential need in the daily life of any internet user, and with the costs being high for a few bytes in use, it’s even much needed. Not so many users can testify of the fast speeds in every corner of the country but the Telecom industry seems to be ready to serve their best. In a promotion dubbed #LiveThe4GExperience, Airtel Uganda has just launched its 4G Network on 404 LTE sites in Kampala and 128 LTE sites upcountry....

We tweeted them up inquiring as to why they had done this. Their response was that ‘this has been done to ensure optimisation of resources and [in order to] give you a better experience’. Don’t be alarmed though, this new development does not mean that Airtel has reduced the pricing on their data bundles. They simply reduced on the options to decongest their bundles. The remaining monthly data bundles include 125MB at UGX 5,000, 250MB at UGX 10,000, 525MB at UGX 20,000 and 1GB at UGX 35,000, etc....

In the last few years, MTN has dominated the broadband and fiber-to-the-home internet space with their Wakanet Pro product. Airtel, on the other hand, was subtle and didn’t have any products when it came to unlimited internet. That changed by the end of last year when they quietly started rolling out Airtel Xstream, their first unlimited fiber internet connection. This new service is available through both microwave and fiber in select areas and is sure to revolutionize the way Ugandans stay connected to the digital world....

Press Release : As the ‘Women’s month’ of March comes to a close, MTN Uganda hosted the 5 th annual Women in Business awards that marked the end of the two month long search for those women who have excelled in their enterprises through the use of tools and opportunities available to them. Under the 2017 theme: Survival of the fittest: Partnering for success , these awards celebrate the achievements of Ugandan women entrepreneurs who against all odds continue to excel in the predominantly male dominated field of business....

In case the name sounds unfamiliar to you, Google Duplex is an automated call feature that uses Google Assistant to make a reservation, set up meetings or schedule appointments on your behalf. This has been around since last year, announced in Google’s I/O conference, so it is not a new development. However, the feature was only available for Google’s Pixel phone users until now that you have access to it on other Android phones and in the Google Assistant app on iOS....

It seems as though a new version of Android comes out every other day. Just the other day we were looking at Android Oreo and now Android P is on its way. Time really does fly. So Google has released an early version of the upcoming fork of Android for developers to peek inside and prepare their apps for all of the new features coming out later this year. True, it might not be anywhere close to what we will eventually see at launch, or even in subscequent beta updates, but there is a lot of note-worthy changes....

We are half way into the year, and many announcements have been made in the mobile industry – bringing features that are either news, or upgrades to what we already knew. The first half has seen the launch of flagship devices such as the Samsung S8 and S8 Plus, HTC U11, OnePlus 5, Honor 9, Blackberry’s KeyOne, and the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus. The second half is getting us even more anxious with the iPhone 8 coming, and a possible release of a tenth anniversary smartphone....

CredPal, a Nigerian BNPL fintech startup, has partnered with Bolt Nigeria (Nigeria’s biggest ride-hailing platform) to provide Bolt users with the option to ride and pay for those rides at a later date. The feature, which is dubbed, “ Ride-On “, is now available on the Bolt app as a checkout option and users can choose that instead of the cash or card option currently available to users on the app....

There is a debate on whether business cards will become a thing of the past in the near future. This debate is understandable since many people are embracing the digital lifestyle and doing away with as much paper as possible. Thank God for technology, there are apps such as Camcard that let you digitally manage your paper business cards. What is Camcard? CamCard is the easiest app to manage and exchange business cards, the perfect fit for salespeople, entrepreneurs, business developers or marketing experts, and anyone who gives and/or receives business cards....