DHL Express ( www.dpDHL.com ), the world’s leading international express services provider recently announced its partnership with MallforAfrica ( www.MallForAfrica.com ), the award-winning global e-commerce company, which will facilitate selling of made-in-Africa products to customers in the United States. Businesses can do so via the eBay platform powered by MallforAfrica. Through this partnership, DHL locations will serve as drop-off points for products destined for consumers in the United States. This will be the first time businesses in Africa can sell their locally manufactured products directly on eBay....

Dovibe, a social networking app that is specifically designed and built for the mobile platform has hit the mobile App stores . The App aims to bring mobile users closer to their family and friends with just a touch of a button. The Mobile app is developed by Vibe labs Uganda, a Ugandan startup founded by two brothers, Zimula Rogers a former Makerere student (co-founder and CEO) and Wagaba Mike (co-founder) who is currently doing a bachelors degree in Business Statitics with some help from CodeSync....

When Google launched Google Play Movies in Uganda last year, we rightly thought that Google was simply taking a ride. That’s because there’s no way anyone in Uganda would rent a movie at UGX 25,000 ($13) without counting the cost of data. With the current data costs, that would come to a total of about Ugx 50,000. Clearly a bummer. This is where Multichoice’s DStv comes in. The Pay TV provider last week launched a service it has dubbed “BoxOffice” that allows users to rent the latest blockbuster movies for as low as Ugx 6,000....

Every other day we see a new company boasting about how fast their new smartphone can charge. But what all these manufacturers don’t tell you is that faster charging comes at a cost. We explain everything you need to know in this article. Fast Charging Briefly Explained Your battery works with two poles, a negative and a positive. At the negative end, you have a ton of free electrons while the positive end has less....

For years, UMEME Touch Pay dominated pre‑paid electricity payments in Uganda. But with the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) taking over distribution from UMEME in key regions, you now have to learn a new way of paying for your electricity bill. For starters, there’s a rebrand from UMEME’s Yaka which we all have been used to, to now “Light”. So everything is now prefixed with “Light” including their new payment system now dubbed ” UEDCL Light Pay “....

The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2018 was headlined by the launch of the Galaxy Note 9. Great device overall but that wasn’t the only product announced at the event. The much anticipated “Bixby Speaker” that’s meant to take on the likes of Google Home and Apple’s HomePod was unveiled in form of the Galaxy Home. Can we talk about the design for a moment? The design of this smart speaker has elicited varied reactions from various quarters....

Rocket Health Wholesale and Pezesha have joined forces to bring flexible and affordable credit options to healthcare facilities in Uganda. This collaboration is set to revolutionize the way pharmacies, hospitals, medical centers, and all health facilities acquire essential products, making it easier for them to access what they need and pay later at a low 4% interest rate per month to Pezesha when repaying the loan. Rocket Health’s simple and modern eCommerce website makes it easy for healthcare facilities to order the products they need, and Pezesha’s automated credit scoring system ensures that they are approved for the loan they need....

Cambridge Analytica has been in the international headlines for the past week or so, and not for the right reasons. Cambridge Analytica is ”a British political consulting firm which combines data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral process.” At least that is what their firm description reads. How did the whole scandal blow over? Ever since the US presidential elections that led to the election of Donald Trump as the president, there have been claims of Russians’ interference in the process....

After about two years of canceling and rescheduling due to COVID, the Mobile World Congress is back to its usual, yearly time slot at the beginning of the year. The pandemic of 2020 forced the cancelation of the Mobile World Congress for that year, while the event for 2021 was moved to June. The Mobile World Congress for 2022 has just ended and quite a number of consumer tech companies unveiled new products....

2020 was a messed-up year for many sectors, not least of which was the education sector. However, and despite all odds, Form 4 candidates managed to sit for their national exams and in what can only be termed as concerted efforts, the marking process has taken a pretty short time and now, the results are out. Admittedly, these are nervous times for candidates waiting to know their fate, post-secondary school, a fate that hinges on their performance in these exams....

There is a lot of interesting activity that social media comes with, including images and videos that you can always laugh out on every evening after work. Then comes that moment when your data bundle is on budget, and you can’t afford to misuse any single kilobyte over anything. That is when the facebook videos that play automatically really nag. But it should not actually be a bother. Here is a simple step-by-step instruction on how you can disable the automatic play....

There are many reasons you might want to pin chats on WhatsApp. Maybe that conversation is with someone very important to you , or there’s info you don’t want to skip in that chat, or you want to subtly remind yourself of a particular thing when you see the chat, or a thousand and one other reasons. Regardless of what your reason is, this article will guide you on how to pin chats or conversations on WhatsApp....

Wouldn’t you agree with us that you would want to watch content when you want, whenever you want and however you want? It’s the human want for convenience and choice. Naspers through its subsidiaries Multichoice and Showmax, iRokoTV and Econet Media are both racing to empower users to take control of their entertainment experience. Econet media with its “internet-enabled decoder” or more accurately internet streaming box dubbed Kwese Play has partnered with US video streaming service provider Netflix to provide customers in South Africa with an exclusive, three-month free Netflix subscription....

“Have you turned it off and back on again?” It’s probably the first thing you would hear whenever you seek advice from a friend when your gadgets are acting up. From smartphones to a personal computer, a reboot is vital and its significance cannot be overstated. Let’s delve in and digest why it’s important to reboot your computer and how often it’s advisable to do a warm boot. Keep in mind, most of these are from past experience and reliable feedbacks from communities but shouldn’t be taken upon as gospel as what works for you might be different....

See MiFis are very small gadgets. And they should be if portability is what we are going for. But then, pushing for smaller sizes leads to a couple of reasonable concessions/compromises. Given a choice between having a display on your MiFi or a bigger, longer lasting battery, for most people, having a bigger battery is a no-brainer. For this reason, most MiFis lack a display that would have otherwise been used to display some information on the status of the MiFi....

Starting with Chrome OS 97 and later versions, you can now add a Google Calendar widget to your Chromebook. One of the things we love about our Windows PCs is that whenever you tap on the time located at the bottom right of your screen, you get a Google Calendar widget. Unfortunately, in previous versions of Chromebooks, you had to pin the Google Calendar app to the taskbar if you wanted to access the calendar....

Whether your Chromebook is running slow or you wish to know the hardware specs of your Chromebook, checking for RAM and CPU is a must know. RAM(Random Access Memory) is volatile memory which your computer uses to store running programs and processes. It’s volatile because this memory doesn’t persist once you restart your Chromebook. Say for instance you are in the middle of editing a photo and suddenly your laptop battery runs or you accidently restart your computer, all changes will be lost....

I have a Roku TCL Smart TV and I have been using a Physical remote to control it as you would expect. However, the physical remote stopped working. I realized the metal battery contacts got eroded somehow. So no matter how I changed batteries or cleaned it, the physical remote couldn’t work. I have read online and several forums suggested using the virtual remote on the Roku mobile app. This would work on condition that your Roku Smart TV or Streaming Player is already connected to the same WiFi network as your Smartphone....

A password is a prerequisite to signing up to an online account on social media sites, personal email, e-banking, etc. and we all have them, at least until we figure out a better way to beef up online security. A good many passwords used online are frankly just asking to be hacked being weak as they often are. So how exactly does one go about creating a password strong enough to deter the average hacker?...

For content creators, one of the many things to crack is the ease at which your content consumers can share your content. For sharing content to Twitter, a great way to make this very easy is creating a Twitter click-to-tweet link. This comes with a pre-filled message, ideally the part of the content, that you want the consumer to share. To make this very clear, say we want you, our reader, to share the following on your Twitter timeline: “Dignited....