So you bought yourself some data bundle and left your phone sitting idly. A few minutes later, you receive a text from your carrier, you are out of bundles. “These guys are thieves!!”, you painfully curse. But, are they? Probably not. Your phone is the culprit. See, most of your bandwidth is used in the background, by apps you don’t necessarily want to use now but want their content up-to-date the next time you open them....

Fire TV Settings – Display & Sounds Fire TV Settings – Audio Fire TV Settings – Navigation Sounds David Okwii is the Editor-in-Chief of Dignited.com and a seasoned tech enthusiast whose journey began in the early 2000s. He started blogging while at university, diving deep into mobile apps, smartphone reviews, and operating systems—from testing Linux distros to tweaking Windows machines. David also explores Chromebooks, experiments with Raspberry Pi projects, and brings hands-on curiosity to every review....

Uganda’s Communications regulator has ordered a temporary suspension of public internet access and selected mobile services nationwide, citing election security concerns ahead of the country’s 2026 presidential polls. In a directive dated January 13, 2026 , the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) instructed all licensed Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to enforce the shutdown beginning 6:00 PM local time the same day. The suspension will remain in effect until further notice from the regulator....

Yesterday Sunday, the 3rd of November 2013, a historical astronomical event happened — a hybrid solar eclipse — that attracted thousands of tourists, astronomers and politicians to Pakwach in Nebbi district West Nile which was identified as the best place to spot the total phase of the epic solar eclipse. Thanks to proliferation of smartphones and social media, we remotely followed the eclipse from excited “citizen astronomers” who managed to travel upcountry to view the eclipse....

Kenya’s president Uhuru Kennyatta takes a jibe at UK’s prime minister –James Cameron– for having such a ridiculous name. Through a tweet, he claims that premier’s name is actually spinned from the West African state of Cameroon. He goes on to boast of how he is the only ruling president whose name is quintessentially related to his country’s name. Take note, the tweet above is recovered from a paste bin and isn’t from the real president of Kenya –Uhuru Kenyatta....

Most of us are familiar with email ever since Microsoft’s hotmail or yahoo mail and later Google’s Gmail popularized it starting in the late 1990s. However, up until now we’ve known email to be a messaging technology accessible on desktop internet enabled computers or other devices such as personal digital assistants or PDAs. The purpose of this post is to show you that email is very possible on your mobile phone and you can easily use it like SMS....

USB-C is the future. But it’s not perfect. Let’s not even argue about this. I mean my Acer Aspire E 15 has a reversible USB 3.1 Type-C connector, but I am frankly terrified to use it. For those still wondering, we are talking about the oblong-shaped reversible USB cables slated to replace other connector types. I keep wondering…should I use mine to charge my laptop? Charge my smartphone? Transfer files? Or all the above?...

The entire process of second hand or used-PC hunting is admittedly cumbersome on a good day: so many brands to choose from, so many options to sift through. You will find dubious salesmen gunning for a quick sale, broke campusers offloading excess baggage at graduation or even small time buddies playing at being middlemen. But hold on for a moment there. Before you shake hands on the deal of the century, take five....

As a rule of thumb, whenever you connect to a Wi-Fi network using a password, variations of the following Wi-Fi security protocols come into play: WEP, WPA, & WPA2. The acronyms WEP, WPA, and WPA2 represent generations of Wi-Fi security protocols present on most if not all WiFi networks. We are going to cover the merits and demerits of each Wi-Fi security protocol in due course. But before we hit you with the truth, let’s take you on a trip down memory lane....

A technology that I consider to be evolutionarily crucial to our topic of the day. The advert was about a football character who was enjoying a football match in his living room. Here came a critical point of the game where a penalty kick was awarded. The character in the commercial paused the game, went to his local shopping mall, bought a pack of canned beverages, got back home, and unpaused the game....

A satellite phone’s design is not like the regular Smartphones we have around now, it looks very much like the old-fashioned phones of the 20 th century. Unlike regular smartphones that connect to masts before a call can be made, satellite phones connect directly to satellites. For effectiveness, satellite phones must be used in open space to avoid any structure blocking the signal. Benefit of Satellite phone Satellite phones are very useful to military personnel who go to remote areas to work and travelers in maintaining contact with the world when there is no regular phone coverage....

Mobile Money had sneaked out of the banks’ proximity, and we thought all could be done for the banking institutions. Well, they have re-invented themselves in way that makes them operate lean, fast and everywhere; and in an effort to increase financial inclusion as well as to enable spread and penetration of banking services, the Uganda Bankers Association (UBA) recently launched the Shared Agent Banking System . In March 2017, the Association signed a partnership agreement with Eclectics International, a technology firm to implement the Agent Banking approach through a shared platform and agent network management....

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have been around for a longer time than you think. This was before a way to make it commercially available was discoverd. Arguably, Virtual Reality have been around much longer at least as far as being in the mainstream market is concerned. Anyway let’s get right into to find out what both VR really is and if it any different from AR. What is Virtual Reality?...

We all know what it’s like to insert your camera memory card in your computer while waiting impatiently to see all those amazing photos you have on your camera. However, the only thing that you see is a card error. Or, in some unfortunate cases, you see an empty folder. It happens to the best of us, too. Nearly everyone has issues with the memory card of the camera.Here are some tips on how to prevent this from happening....

Remember Windows phones ? Well, Microsoft is re-entering the smartphone market with a few changes to its previous Windows phones. The Surface Duo is a testament to that and Microsoft has designed it in a unique way to differentiate it from other foldable smartphones . This phone is built mainly as a dual-display smartphone , meaning you can use the two displays for separate functionalities at the same time. Here’s what you can expect from Microsoft’s first foldable smartphone that will be launched in late 2020....

The WhatsApp Business app is developing every other day, and is soon catching up on the normal WhatsApp. The latest development reveals a rumoured addition of a feature to let businesses offer an online catalogue of their products. The feature has emerged online and this could be another push to the app that already boasts of over three million active users. As of now, WhatsApp Business app is available only to Android users, but last month, it was reported that a WhatsApp Business app for iOS is in the pipelines, in addition to a chat filter feature to help businesses easily find the important messages from their customers....

The battle against Fake News has been so strong recently. One of the breeding and spreading grounds for fake news and misinformation has been Whatsapp. This is because people receive all sorts of information and forward it to others without verifying it. Whatsapp now seeks to block users from forwarding information to more than five conversations. Users will be limited to forwarding a message only five times. Initially, the social media site limited messages to being forwarded 20 times....

Yesterday, Google announced two major updates to its Android operating system: a change in the Android naming system (from dessert-based names to numbers only) and a rebranded Android logo. Change this big, coupled with previous announcements can only mean one thing: the arrival next version of the Android OS is nigh. We already know that it would be officially called the ‘Android 10’ and not ‘Android Q’ as earlier planned ....

However, price remains to be a prohibitive factor in increasing mobile smartphone penetration in Africa. Vendors across the globe are looking at putting a mobile handset into the hands of every user in Africa. As telecoms approach 100% mobile coverage in most countries, beefing up their networks to faster and latest mobile technologies, mobile device vendors are also hard at work making their devices even more smarter. The result will be outstanding....

For persons in the Apple Ecosystem, an Apple Watch is a no-brainer. That is absolutely the watch to get as it works well with the iPhone and in the Apple ecosystem in general. But then what about everyone else? What’s the best smartwatch for an Android user? The answer to this question isn’t as straightforward owing to the fragmentation in this space. OEMs like Garmin, Motorola, Samsung, and more, are making WearOS-powered watches but these are the minority....