Every year, we see a new iteration of Apple’s ridiculously popular smartphone. This year, it’s the Apple iPhone 13 series, and by now you have probably seen all the YouTube reviews, camera tests, and features. If you are buying, all you care about now is how much will it cost you and where can you can get one near your location? Well for our readers in Uganda, here are the prices of iPhone 13 and where you can buy them in Uganda....
We’ve all known of Jack being a dull boy while working with no play. As we approach the 2018 World Cup season, Jumia Uganda did not leave her fans and vendor partners out of the festivities, while organizing the Jumia Cup, a football tournament bringing together the Jumia community. Coming as an ultimate “battle of the brands”, the event saw teams from various vendors such as Simba Telecom, Adidas, Jumia, Kwese, Syinix, Blue Flame and Euroflex face-off in a series of friendly matches to determine the eventual champions....
We recently gushed about the Kayoola Bus , Uganda’s pride and joy, the solar-powered electric hybrid that put Uganda on the map for innovation and technological advancement. Developed by Kiira Motors, the much anticipated 35 seater bus was commissioned by President Museveni of Uganda at a grand ceremony at Serena Hotel Kampala In an unexpected turn of events, what was supposed to be a triumphant launch of the Kayoola bus presided over by the president ended up being a disappointing trip back to the garage aided by breakdown tow-trucks....
It’s that time of the year when parents and students are on the edge of their seats after the announcement that KCSE results are yet to be released. This comes days after the release of KCPE results by the CS for education professor George Magoha. COVID-19 had an effect on the school calendar and students who were set to seat for their KCSE in 2021 did it early in 2022....
Google is taking your privacy and security online a little more seriously since it announced on Thursday that it is making all Gmail messages go through an encrypted HTTPS connection that will prevent anyone else from reading them but their intended recipient on its official Enterprise blog ; “Starting today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email. Gmail has supported HTTPS since the day it launched, and in 2010 we made HTTPS the default ....
Kwese Tv is slowly rolling out its suite of entertainment products across numerous African countries. A product of Econet media, Kwese is a combination of hardware and service products that work across web, mobile and TV platforms to bring premium content to millions of Africans. We have been playing with the all-new shiny Kwese decoder for well over a week now. Once you get started enjoying Kwese TV, you might never look back....
If you own a laptop, particularly a work or business notebook, chances are that it is laced with a good number of ports that it sometimes could become overwhelming keeping track of their names or what it does exactly, especially to a newbie. Some of the ports are even available in different versions. Contrary to the belief of a few laptop users, ports aren’t for aesthetical purposes. This is why this article will guide you through the common (and uncommon) ports you’d find on laptops, their uses, available types/versions, and also how you can easily identify ports on your laptops....
It is 2019 and pretty much everything leaks. And when it leaks, it pours. I mean even Google just went ahead and released photos of their upcoming Pixel 4 devices, months before we expected to see them and so many obscure companies also have info about their devices leak way before they’re released. The OnePlus 7T is expected to be the company’s first 5G smartphone that will be globally available and speculation season is ripe for the upcoming....
Mid this year, Microsoft released the Microsoft Lumia 640XL together with the Lumia 540 and 430 Dual SIM in Uganda after releasing the devices in Kenya and South Africa. The Microsoft Lumia 640XL comes in different variants; Single SIM, Dual-SIM, 3G and 4G LTE models. The one we’ve been playing with for over a month now is the dual-SIM 3G version. Summary The Microsoft Lumia 640 XL is definitely a beauty....
Loans Customers can process loans as low as UGX 3,000 and as high as UGX 1,000,000 payable over a period of 30 days at an interest rate of 9%. What’s more, the loans do not attract an interest from MoKash at all. We do not know of any bank with such a program in Uganda. This could perhaps explain the about 2,000 loans processed by MoKash per day, with the average loan amounting to UGX 18,000....
In this generation, it is now very affordable to grab yourself a brand new phone, be it feature or smartphone. The accessibility is even much more here in Kampala, where a variety of devices are available in multitudes of stores; your choice to finish it off. MTN Uganda is bringing you a Supa Deals promotion that can grant you your desired device at a walk away price. From the call boxes to feature phones, from smartphones to tablets, the selection is wide and at a discount....
With time, it is likely that you will receive some kind of encouragement to travel, study or work abroad. Travelling is all fun as you get to meet a couple of interesting people and new experiences in like. However, from a communication point of view, travelling takes you away from your domicile country. This cuts you off from friends, family and business since you can be out of reach. MTN Uganda has now come up with a new innovation to alleviate the pains of non-communication when travelling....
MTN Uganda has promoted Ms. Juliet K Nsubuga to the position of General Manager Wholesale and carrier services. She will now be in charge of telecom to telecom partnerships that enable MTN customers to have a great service experience when out of the country through roaming and locally when they call to other networks; as well as managing infrastructure services to other telecom providers. Juliet, who has spent sixteen years already at MTN Uganda, will now have the obligation to ensure that the infrastructure is right, the service is great, and channels of delivery are robust to serve the customers directly or indirectly....
As previously reported , MTN Uganda has been in talks with the Government to sell a stake to NSSF. As of today, the MTN Group CEO Rob Shutter has confirmed that MTN Uganda is ready to give 20% of its stake to Ugandans. This will bring the percentage of local ownership into the giant telecom company from the current 4% to 20%. MTN Uganda, the country’s biggest tax payer was prompted to sell stake to locals (NSSF) as a prerequisite to renew its license that expired in October 2018....
In a bold move to make digital access more inclusive and affordable, MTN Uganda has today officially launched the Kabode Supa , a game-changing smartphone designed to empower every Ugandan with the tools they need to thrive in today’s digital world. With an initial deposit of just UGX 45,000 , customers can now own this powerful device and pay the balance “Mpola Mpola” through flexible daily, weekly, or monthly installments starting at UGX 900 per day ....
Ever since the conclusion of the National ID registration exercise two years back, a cross-section of Ugandans were left in limbo, nursing unanswered questions and unsure whom to ask. Some did not receive their IDs from the temporary registration centers which soon migrated. Others had incorrect data on their IDs due to human error and would wish to rectify it. A certain percentage did not even bother registering for national ID and thus do not own national IDS and are unsure on how exactly to proceed....
The motivation of this post is simple; I’m tired of hearing vendors in down-town Kampala yelling “iPad” when they mean to say tablet. I’m also tired of correcting my middle class friends who call Samsung Galaxy Tab S “iPads” or even more awkward “Samsung iPads”. While we are at it, I must congratulate Apple for branding and marketing its tablet — the iPad — so ingeniously that the tablet device form factor has become synonymous with the name “iPad”....
“In countries where menstrual hygiene is taboo, girls in puberty are typically absent for 20 percent of the school year.” That’s a statistic from this UNICEF report. Behind this absurd fact is the plight of many girls in Africa who can’t afford sanitary products to keep them be comfortable and clean during their menstrual cycles. As such, they prefer to stay at home or even worse drop out of school to avoid being mocked by their fellow male counterparts according to this article on Thinkpressafrica....
Last week we saw the team over at Canonical unveiling the new Long-Term Support version of their Ubuntu operating system, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS . Ubuntu forms the basis of most Linux distros and as such, it was only a matter of time before these distros got updated as well. Well, Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS is now officially out, much to the delight of System76 PC users and Pop! OS users worldwide. In this post, we shall be talking you through the simple process involved in upgrading your current install, be it PopOS 21....
Flutterwave, a payments processor based out of Lagos has announced raising a Series B round of $35 Million. From an email shared by the CEO, Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola, the round was co-led by Grey Croft & eVentures with additional participation from CRE Ventures, FIS, Visa, Green Visor, and Endeavor. Flutterwave is the first Nigerian investee of Venture Capital company, Endeavor Nigeria. They were also named in 2019 as Ycombinator’s most valuable company in Africa , valued at about $150 million....
