CredPal is a modern consumer credit solution for Africa. They connect consumers to lenders willing to finance their retail purchases while they pay back in fixed monthly installments. According to Euromonitor International , retail sales in the region amounted to over USD500 billion in 2018. The African market, generally, is a consumption powerhouse. Product purchases grow by the day, just as the population rises. It is then understandable and wise that companies like CredPal try to leverage tech to provide much more versatile payment options for consumers to thrive....

Turning on developer mode on your Chromebook enables you to unlock certain features that are not ordinarily available in the stable version. Developer mode is designed for more advanced users such as software developers and tinkers who wish to unlock advanced features of the Chromebook such as Linux. Alright, if you fall under this category, here’s how to enable developer mode on your Chromebook. Go to Settings > About ChromeOS > Additional details ....

In an aim to maximize financial inclusion in Uganda, various banks have developed agency banking in order to take their services closer to the customers. Equity bank is one of the leaders in agency banking with the introduction of Equi Duuka. Equi Duuka is an agency banking model that enables access to Equity bank at your nearest location. With this set up, you can access your bank from anywhere so long as there is an agent available....

TECNO has a track record of embracing recent technology trends with its smartphones. Earlier this year, the Chinese company updated the Camon 9 with the Camon X and Camon X Pro. These included a selection of new features and software enhancements. The manufacturer has continued this trend with the launch of the Camon 11 and Camon 11 Pro . So what are the new features of the Camon Pro and Camon?...

The internet is Facebook in most of Africa! Yes, i know that’s an audacious statement until you consider the stats. There are about 50 million Facebook users in Africa out of a total of about 167 million internet users on the continent. Facebook users alone represent about 30% of all internet users and it’s the single most frequented website on the internet. Out of the top 10 countries on the Mega social network including Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Algeria, the website was either the first or second most visited site according to site-ranking website Alexa ....

What started as an ad hoc chat between a friend and I would later snowball into one of the biggest tweetstorms of the night by a global tech leader. Jeremy Bell’s startup in the works, wattage.io , has the most scintillating manifesto I had ever read. It promises to convert that idea you have into a product you can touch. Think of an on demand hardware shop – although the highlight comes in at the conclusion of the lucid pitch – where remotely located user with access to a modern browser can design stuff and gets it printed on the fly, as if magic....

In a world that is increasingly connected by and dependent upon technology, digitization is an important way for organizations to remain modern and relevant. Taking advantage of the global digital transformation allows companies in both the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spheres to enhance their performance across key operational areas and create new value for their customers. Just to put this into context, digitization is the process of converting information into a computer-readable format, in which the information is organized into bits....

There are rumors that Samsung will be launching the Galaxy Watch 5 in a couple of months – this will obviously be Samsung’s best smartwatch yet. The Galaxy Watch 5 will succeed the Galaxy Watch 4 released a year ago. The Watch 4 came with some really unique features: It featured two designs; a standard, sporty model and a classic version with a physical bezel, a non-invasive body composition analysis sensor, and they were the first set of smartwatches to run Wear OS 3....

Gerocare, unlike many other startups, has chosen to shift focus to the smallest set in the demography of Nigeria and other African countries — the elderly. For Nigeria, 2018 estimates indicate that the elderly (55 years and above) make-up 7.30% of the country’s population. While this might be a small chunk of the very large Nigerian market, they appear to be a neglected bunch. And understandably so, as they mostly fall into the ‘laggard’ section when adopter categories are considered....

Google’s Developer Conference , otherwise known as the Google I/O event is an annual developers’ event where Google announces upcoming products and features it has been working on. The 3-days conference for 2021 started a couple of days ago. While some of the announcements made were expected, a few others came out of the blue. In this article, we’re going to tell you about all of the things (that you might be interested in) Google announced at the Google I/O event....

On September 26, 2023, Google announced that it will be discontinuing its standalone podcast app, Google Podcasts, in 2024. The company will instead be consolidating its podcasting efforts on YouTube Music, which will become its “centralized podcast destination.” In a blog post, Google explained that it sees “the potential in podcasts” and believes that the spoken audio format is “only growing.” The company also noted that many podcasters are already using YouTube for video versions of their content....

Transsion Holdings which is the parent company that owns Tecno, iTel, and Infinix are also the owners of Oraimo – an accessory maker and exclusive accessory partner to the aforementioned brands. Oraimo has been around since 2013, making in-box accessories for Tecno, iTel and Infinix smartphones. Until recent years after most mobile phones don’t include accessories in their phones anymore except chargers including phones from Transsion brands. That said, Oraimo is now marketed as a standalone accessory brand that it is....

We always find it hard to get a device that suits our interests, let along personality. Just picture having a laptop with dual touchscreens, one transformed into an adaptive keyboard and the other doing the showtime. Asus just sought out something of the sort, a dual-screen laptop – at Computex 2018. It is a laptop designed to follow your routine, yet able to conserve battery life in the case of future projects....

In today’s competitive smartphone market, OEMs offer innovative features to attract buyers and set them apart from the numerous competitions out there. These companies go about it in different ways ranging from introducing a different design like the notch, punch hole curved screen, gradient finish to introducing a whole new form factor like the foldable smartphones we see around now. However, one of the common ways they go about this is in the camera department, with multiple cameras already present on a number of smartphones lately....

App updates are rolled out to Android apps regularly for additional features, bug fixing, security updates and more. Unarguably, some updates might be complicated or problematic rather than the intended problem-solving nature. So, after trying the regular troubleshooting methods, you fuel the idea of reverting the app to its former version. You’re right on course because uninstalling the update returns the app to the version you were most comfortable with. But then, it isn’t all rosy....

We all know Google Drive , so it probably needs no introduction. But let’s not presume. If you must know, Google Drive is a cloud storage and synchronisation service. With Google Drive, Google users get to store their files on Google servers which they can synchronise and access and also share across devices. Perhaps its best feature yet is Google’s very own Office productivity suite which comprises Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides and Google Forms....

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves in the tech industry, with language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT leading the charge. However, a new contender has entered the arena: LLaMA , a state-of-the-art AI language model developed by Meta , Facebook’s parent company. Unlike ChatGPT, LLaMA is not designed for casual conversation but rather as a research tool aimed at advancing the field of AI. Here’s what you need to know about this groundbreaking technology....

It’s a known fact that the major revenue earners i.e. voice and messaging are dropping, cannibalized by over the top (OTT) companies like whatsapp and Viber . What can mobile network operators do? “The innovators dilemma” is one of the most important books that describe how innovations happen and why it’s common for market leaders to fail to seize the next wave of innovations in their industry. The hypothesis of the book is that established companies do not fail because they had bad management, but rather that good management was the root cause....

For times when you need to take a selfie in dark rooms to times when you need to navigate a dark path at night, your phone’s flashlight comes in handy many more times than you can imagine. However, there are times when you might need to crank up the flashlight’s brightness as well as times you just want to dim it down because, well, you don’t want to be blinded by a super-bright flashlight....

The sad truth with technology in the 21st century is lots of cool tech and gadgets are released out frequently that it becomes almost impossible to keep up with the latest trends. In late 2019 when MTN Uganda partnered with Africell to help Africell customers top-up airtime and data bundles from the USSD shortcode *252#, the news was quickly forgotten. *MTN Uganda 252# Shortcut I found myself using the service a lot lately and surprisingly whenever I tell my colleagues there’s a super easy way to buy airtime and internet for any telecom network from mobile money, they act like I just discovered the 8th wonder of the world....