Essentially, if you are looking to buy a new phone, one of the most important things to look out for are the phone specifications. Also, you will need to know your phone’s specifications when you need it fixed or when you are reselling it among others. Here, are five applications that will show you detailed specifications about any phone. My Specs With this application, you are able to find latest Tech news, phones and their specs along with compare, filters and reviews....

You probably have been using Google Docs for a while now. It’s really a cool productivity tool, no doubt. But do you know that there are some interesting built-in features that can further up your productivity? These features aren’t exactly in plain sight so we’ll be taking the post to reveal 5 Google Docs tool that will definitely give your productivity a boost. These tools will change your writing experience on the platform and make it more fun....

Before the advent of these NAS-optimized hard drives, traditional mechanical drives used on regular desktops and PCs were also used on NAS systems. But because regular drives performed poorly on NAS devices, hard drives built and designed for NAS systems were introduced. And unlike regular desktop hard drive that are engineered to optimally run for only hours at length, NAS-optimized hard drives run for longer periods, are quieter during operation, faster, RAID-optimised, more reliable, and sport more premium features....

Stolen data includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, passwords and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. The Yahoo data breach happened in 2014, and for two years the email service has been haemorrhaging private information. Personal information from around 500 million Yahoo accounts are affected by the massive data breach. Yahoo advises immediate security precautions for those who last changed their passwords before 2014....

With the increasing rate of online hacking, you need strong unique passwords for each of your online accounts. If you are still using your date of birth, you are in real trouble because these passwords are easy to manipulate. This is where the use of password managers is vital, as they help you create strong passwords. A password manager is an encrypted vault for storing passwords that is itself protected by a master password....

Although electronic payments in Nigeria (and Africa at large) is growing tremendously, sending and receiving money across borders still remains a challenge. Thanks to Chipper Cash, however, money transfer to other African countries can now be done instantly (and for free!) at the click of a button. With Chipper Cash, sending funds is just as seamless as receiving it. The conversion/exchange rates are also really reasonable and competitive. Asides money transfer, you can also use Chipper Cash to pay bills (cable TV, internet, and electricity) and purchase airtime....

Absa Bank Uganda has introduced an exciting cardless withdrawal function on Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). The innovation allows customers to use a QR Code generated from the Absa Banking App on any smartphone device to withdraw cash at any Absa ATM countrywide. Speaking during a media briefing to launch this new offering, Musa Jallow, Retail Director, Absa Bank Uganda said, “Digital payments are evolving at a fast pace, particularly during this COVID-19 era where public health is a primary concern....

The best part about having a two-factor authentication app is that you can easily protect all your other passwords and applications. With these apps, you can add that extra layer of security guaranteed to prevent unauthorized access to your accounts. So you can carry out transactions or work without worrying about a data breach. Now while there are a number of authentication apps available for download, you need one that’s compatible with your devices, easy to use, truly secure, and reliable....

One benefit of using a smartphone that runs on the Android OS is that Google designed it to let users set whichever browser they want as their default browser. This leaves room for third-party software developers to compete – this is why we have tonnes of browser apps available on the Google play store. Some Android device users have stuck to the popular Chrome, Firefox, and Opera (Mini) browser, not because they’re the best, but because there are too many browsers to choose from, and it gets confusing sometimes....

It can be astonishing when you think of how computers have evolved within the past two decades. In comparison, a quality musical instrument from 20 years ago is still a quality instrument today. It may even have appreciated in value. Again, a good car from two decades ago is an old car, but it can still be fully functional. However, a super high-end PC from two decades ago is worthless today....

Television in Uganda and the world over is getting a makeover. Digital TV will once and for all put an end to those “snowy pictures” that have been gracing your screen for very long. We are in the new era of HD and it’s not a fading fad. This is real. The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has for a while now threatened to make the transition from analog to digital for a while now but nothing has materialized since....

Welcome to the month of July 2014 and we hope you’re having a fruitful month already. To sum up your first week of this month, here are hand-picked stories from Africa and around the globe that we think will interest you. #1. Online company registration website now live in Kenya Africa is slowly embracing the digital world — including governments — according this story on Humanipo. With just the click of button, enterprises that wish to register their companies can now do so; “ Entrepreneurs simply fill the details of their companies online at Inc....

eBay will partner with e-Commerce startup MallforAfrica in a bid to expand their footprint on the African continent. First of all, we should categorically state that eBay’s partnership with MallforAfrica, a Nigerian online shopping startup is a marriage of convenience, and not a buyout. The partnership will involve a logistical, financial and marketing symbiosis between the two companies. eBay is looking to get a foothold on the African continent, whose online spending habits are expected to grow to over $75 billion by 2025....

Ecobank is one of the 25 licensed commercial banks in Uganda, with a wide customer base enjoyed across the country. Known for being a Pan-African conglomerate, its business focus and target falls with in the continental radius of Africa; and with an ambition to achieve 100 million customers by 2020, their latest innovation in the Masterpass QR is a really profitable and sustainable move. Masterpass QR, the first mobile-driven Person-to-Merchant (P2M) payment solution, is a digital mobile-payment service that resulted from the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Ecobank Group and MasterCard, a global card and digital payment company....

If there is anything these past two decades have taught us about technological advancement, it is that there is always a demand for more. This creates a need to create better products to keep up with these demands. There were times when you could not even imagine a smartphone without keypads or a digital library spanning hundreds of gigabytes. The development of faster connections has increased media consumption with high resolution and also advanced phone cameras to make it....

Samsung has launched a new line of Galaxy smartphones—the S21 series. This new series houses three different devices—the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Plus, and Galaxy S21 Ultra. These devices are successors to the Galaxy S20 series released last year and have slight features that differentiate them. In this post, we’ll take a look at the members of the S21 series and highlight major features that differentiate them. In the end, you should be understand the differences between the three devices and make an informed decision based on what you care about most....

Google Play Movies is the latest addition of Google services in Uganda. The service comes with a price tag — in Uganda Shillings, not dollars — for movies in SD (Standard Definition) and HD (High Definition) when I tested out the service. For instance the Amazing Spider-man retails for UGX 25,000 ($13), the price of a movie ticket in local cinemas such as Cineplex. You will have a sneak peek of the movie with free movie trailers, user reviews and ratings as usual....

In November 2018, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank, hereinafter) announced the launch of the Habari Mobile App. At the time of launch, it was labeled Nigeria’s largest platform for music, shopping , lifestyle content and more. The distribution that GTBank possesses gave the platform an edge over others in the same space. According to the bank, Habari was created to focus on enabling people’s needs and lifestyles rather than just providing a limited bouquet of regular banking products....

Steve Jobs And The Era Of Innovation When Steve Jobs (RIP) was fired from Apple, he started a company called NEXT and it’s the technology developed at NEXT that later formed the renaissance at Apple when Steve was re hired. Under this renaissance, Apple murdered Sony’s Walkman with the iPod in 2001 and later obliterated Blackberry with the release of the iPhone in 2007. Apple went ahead to reinvent tablets with its legendary iPad which was first released in 2010 while its Notebooks and Desktops were and are arguably still the best in the market right from design to performance....

The race to invent, develop and then, hopefully, bring new inventions to the tech and gadgets marketplace never stops and, in 2015, there are thousands of new ideas for consumer technology appearing on crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indigogo. These are the websites that allow you to post up your concept, no matter how wild or wacky and then, if you’re lucky, get funding to make the dream become a reality....