One of Android’s biggest selling points is its customizability. The ability to change the look and feel of the experience to something that’s truly personal. One of the easiest ways to do this is using custom launchers. The other could be flashing custom ROMs or rooting to take advantage of the hundreds of mods available on forums. There are so many custom launchers on the Play Store to serve as alternatives to the often clunky ones that come with OEM software....

This year 2017 brought about many new changes and it’s not yet done with unveiling them. A few weeks ago we saw the launch of Samsung Galaxy 8 and Galaxy 8+, Google held a conference and shared a few things ranging from their very own Google Pixel to the VR Daydream while HTC is looking forward to unleashing their new gadget that’s looking to becoming the flagship of HTC smartphones....

Jumia is arguably Nigeria’s biggest eCommerce platform and we always look forward to their yearly black Friday events because of the crazy discounts on goods that are normally beyond our budget. Just like last year’s edition that happened on 4 Fridays, this year’s edition will also happen on 4 different Fridays between the 8 th and 29 th of November 2019. This year’s edition would be awesome because customers will be offered deals up to 99% off on certain products....

Kenyans can now seamlessly transact between each other irrespective of what Mobile Money platform they are on. Well, not quite yet. AirtelMoney and T-kash are still trying to figure out ways of playing nice with each other but that is coming soon. At the moment, M-PESA plays nice with noth AirtelMoney and T-kash. But how much does it cost to transact across the divide? Let us look at what it costs....

Tripesa, the Ugandan-born B2B travel tech platform has launched a suite of premium tools aimed at tour operators at Pearl Of Africa Tourism Expo event happening at the Speke Resort and Convention Centre in Munyonyo. New Premium Tools for Seamless Tourism Management At the Expo, Tripesa announced its latest innovation – Premium Templates – designed to empower Ugandan micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the tourism and hospitality sector. These user-friendly templates will allow businesses to create stunning and professional websites effortlessly, with Tripesa’s signature “It’s that easy” approach....

At a press event in San Francisco, Twitter executives recently made a statement about its ongoing work on adding a new way for users to manage their interests. The new feature will see to it that users are able to manage handles and hashtags in a more idealistic manner. The plan is to suggest following topics that cover tweets that garner attention from different accounts that the user might not even be following....

Starting this Friday, February 10th you won’t “need to leave the office for lunch” according to an email Uber has just sent out to its customers. In partnership with Roast by Carnivore, Uber is bringing food delivery service dubbed UberChoma which will offer free Nyama Choma to people in Westlands and Nairobi town. The service will also be available to residents of Mombasa. How it works Open the Uber app between 12PM (noon) – 2PM on Friday, February 10 in Westlands or Town....

According to reports coming from the Daily Monitor, UCC executive director Godfrey Mutabazi is satisfied with the current digital TV coverage in and around the outskirts of Uganda. “The commission hereby informs you that it is satisfied with the current digital coverage that has existed for the past six months in Kampala and areas 60km outside Kampala,” Mr Mutabazi is quoted by Daily Monitor in writing to all television broadcasters and the minister of Information and Communication Technology, Mr John Nasasira....

July has been filled with lots of talk on tax in regards to telecom operations. From the start of the month, there has been an effect on mobile money transactions as a result of the mobile money tax imposed, and on social media usage following the implementation of the OTT tax. With the public up in arms against the cause, including the trending #ThisTaxMustGo call, the Ugandan Government has responded by scrapping all tax on receiving money, sending money, and making payments; while cutting that on withdrawals of money down to 0....

When it comes to operating systems, Unix and Linux are two of the most popular choices. Both are widely used in the tech industry, but what exactly sets them apart? In this article, we’ll delve into the key differences between Unix and Linux. Before we dive in, it’s worth noting that Unix and Linux are related but not identical. Unix was developed in the late 1960s by Bell Labs, while Linux was developed in the early 1990s by Linus Torvalds....

Google Assistant is a smart Artificial Intelligence app designed to make your everyday life easier. The AI app is available on smartphones , smart speakers, cars, smart TV, laptop, smartwatch, Chromecast, and more. The Chromecast is a streaming device that turns any TV into a smart one capable of being controlled via voice commands. Combining these two can supercharge your TV. If your TV is already smart with support for Google Assistant (most Android TV-based TVs are) or has a smart remote with voice control such as Roku TVs, then you might not need this....

Voyance is a machine learning, data science platform that helps businesses make proper sense out of large chunks of data. The platform uses artificial intelligence to help predict, from historical data, various information that is very relevant to business growth. Data science is an increasing area of interest for many businesses. This is especially true for those businesses that recognize the importance of maximizing insights from available data. A common feature of businesses —both big and small— is the relative amount of customer data they possess....

Unlike the smartphone space where there are only two major OS, iOS and Android. Google has not been able to hold down the smartwatch OS world like it did the smartphone and the Wear OS 3 is going to change that. Tagged the ‘Unified OS’ and rightfully so, two of the biggest players in the smartwatch space behind Apple which beforehand have their own smartwatch OS collaborated on it – namely Samsung and Fitbit even if the latter have been acquired by Google....

Africa has come a long way from the times of tribal wars, slavery and colonization. Even though great strides towards a better living environment have been made, there are still a lot of challenges. Poverty is still common; Aids is taking its toll on the continent; Malaria too, corruption is very high; unstable political environments; civil wars and brain drain. This has led to many commentators painting a gloomy future; with some even declaring that African will still remain the “dark continent” and remain undeveloped forever....

In this day and age, the internet is everything. We heavily rely on this worldwide infrastructure for almost every aspect of our lives today. Facebook and Twitter for keeping up with friends and family, Skype and a bunch of other apps for video calling, entertainment, you name it, we’re doing it online. I mean even governments have moved on to provide services to the public over the internet. The internet is everything....

The PC market is saturated with one Operating System, Windows. I can guarantee that 99% of all the computers you will interact with today are running some version of Windows. Of course there are the occassional iSheep here and there with Macbooks and iMacs but those are few and far between. The rebelious geeks among us will have some version of Linux on their PC but even then, most of them run this Linux distro alongside Windows....

Have you ever imagined a computerized city? Where faulty streetlights are detected and fixed by computers with minimal human interaction. Imagine being woken up by an alarm, which then sends signals to the light to automatically be switched on, then the water heater to warm water for your bath. Well, this is a general picture of the phrase “Internet of things”. It is a network of smart devices with sensors and actuators which enable connectivity and exchange of data without human to human or human to computer interaction....

Have you gone into a supermarket and seen a centralized point for payment with lots of gadgets? Well, these gadgets are used to ease the payment of goods and such a set up is known as a Point of Sale. Point of sale (POS) is the time and place where a retail transaction is completed. At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice and indicates the options for the customer to make payment....

If you’re a music lover, you know how important it is to have access to a vast library of songs and albums at your fingertips. With so many different streaming services to choose from, it can be tough to know which one is the right fit for you. The pressure gets even worse when you factor in the idea that whichever service you pick will be where you build your catalog over time....

While Chromebooks are very similar to your conventional laptops, they also vary in many ways. One of the major differences can be found in the CAPS lock button. Instead of having the CAPS lock button, a Chromebook uses what we call the “Everything Button.” As the name implies, it does almost everything- including offline and online tasks. Since the Everything Button is super versatile, it can still be used as your CAPS-lock button....