The Google Chrome (Mobile and PC) browser comes with a built-in runner game embedded into the page that appears when your internet connection is weak, poor, or entirely offline. Dubbed “Chrome Dino”, the running game was debuted on the browser in 2014 by a team of software engineers (Edward, Sebastien Gabriel and Alan Bettes) under the Chrome Design team at Google. Chrome’s “No Internet” Page Chrome Dino is currently being played monthly by over 270 million users across the world both on laptop and mobile, mostly from regions with expensive mobile data and unreliable internet connectivity — Brazil, Mexico, India, Indonesia etc....

The announcement about Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) was made last year September and have been in private preview ever since by partners and customers that volunteered. However, the preview is now available for the public to use and explore. Also, you should be aware that this is for cor.porations and businesses only with no intended use for gaming or anything of that nature. What’s cool about this new service is that it allows you to run multiple Windows 10 sessions on an Azure Virtual Machine ....

It’s 2017 and so many things are changing in the tech world. For starters, 4G technology is fast catching up, internet is becoming pretty affordable and that opens up the internet to a lot of possibilities. Enjoying your music is now pretty easy, with your smartphone you can now tune in to Internet Radio and it is surprising just how many of your local radios are available online. Also, gone are the days of walking around with your Walkman or bulky iPod with a few of your favorite tunes....

Xiaomi has unveiled its first Android Go-powered smartphone, the Redmi Go. The Redmi Go, just like every other Android Go-powered device in the market, goes for a rather reasonable $90. It runs a stripped-down version of Android called Android 8.1 Oreo Go Edition. Android Go is a ‘lite’ version of the Android OS that is meant for use in regions where internet connectivity is limited and comes pre-installed with various ‘lite’ versions of Google applications like Maps Go, Youtube Go, Gmail Go among a bunch of others....

Samsung galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge are soon to be launched on the Airtel Uganda network. The network has posted on its Facebook page about the availability of Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone. The #GalaxyS6 is your NEXT PHONE!Win a POWERBANK after booking your #AirtelS6 here -> http://goo.gl/KYdY35 Posted by Airtel Uganda on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 Airtel Uganda currently sales Samsung galaxy S5 at the price of Ugx 1,950,000. The price of the galaxy S5 is likely to drop with the entry of the galaxy S6 whose price Airtel Uganda hasn’t confirmed yet....

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A53 5G and Galaxy A33 5G during its first event of the year. These smartphones come to succeed the Galaxy A52 5G , and the Galaxy A32 5G, both released a year ago. The Galaxy A33 and the Galaxy A53 both see big updates in major areas when compared to their predecessors. The Galaxy A33 5G in particular, comes with some major upgrades that make it very similar to the Galaxy A53 5G....

Savannah Fund has today launched a platform dubbed Waterhole that will be home to content for entrepreneurs and investors in the African continent. In an email to partners, the Venture Capital firm said that it’ll use the platform to aggregate the best resources for this particular category of people; “ In our experience working with both entrepreneurs and investors, we found a great need in the African tech startup ecosystem for a page to aggregate the best resources and content on entrepreneurship for budding entrepreneurs authored from practitioners....

Kenyan logistics startup, Sendy has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Atlantica Ventures, an African-focused investor that provides capital to early-stage companies. Fused into the Series B raises is Research and Development partnership with Toyota Tsusho, the trading arm of the Toyota Group. On the company’s plans for the newly-raised funds, Sendy’s CEO (one of the four co-founders), Mesh Alloys notes that funds from the Series B will be channeled to further develop its service offering by improving its (data and engineering) teams — even though he thinks they are “miles ahead of our competition today when it comes to tech”....

If you’ve been following the global roll out of 4G LTE, then you should by all means be surprised that a little known Telecom called Smile communications has already turned on the 4G LTE tap in Uganda — making it the first operator to introduce 4G LTE services in the whole East African region. 4G LTE is a 4th generation cellular network technology that succeeds the current 3G standard that’s prevalent in most countries around the glob....

With the increasing demand for internet and data services during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate working from home, online studying, staying in touch with family and friends, and other online internet activities, has resulted in a need for unlimited internet. Smile Communications continues to offer customers more reasons to smile in the new unlimited internet world of choice. Effective, 28th October, 2020, Smile has introduced a NEW range of flexible, unlimited internet offers with MoreChoice, MoreValue and that are even MoreAffordable to enable customers to experience more flexibility in selecting the unlimited internet option that best suit the specific data needs of consumers in Uganda....

Smile Uganda yesterday launched their Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service – Smile Voice – and also Smile Unlimited to it’s customers in Uganda. Smile spent the better part of 2015 testing this service which is now ready. It also recently introduced their Unlimited Internet offering which is now official. Mrs Beatrice Kiraso, Chairperson, Smile Uganda said; Smile is the first mobile operator in East Africa to develop and introduce Voice over LTE, plus a world first free Voice over LTE mobile application that enables all our customers in Uganda with Android and iPhone devices to experience high quality voice calls over Smile’s network....

When George Puttenham first coined the phrase ‘putting the cart before the horse’ in his 1589 book The arte of English poesie , he had no idea that this would be the subject of debate in one of Uganda’s technical user forums, the Linux User Group (LUG). Less than two weeks ago we put up a post about the Uganda Mozilla community ’s latest works; translating the world’s second most popular web browser into Acholi, which is one of the native language of Uganda....

If you can’t access your Microsoft outlook emails right now, you are not alone. There are several reports of an outgoing internet outage that has causes some internet services specifically Microsoft 356 to be offline. We can’t confirm the cause, but it’s likely due to internet sea cable cuts caused by the conflict in the middle east. I did try to login to my outlook email. I was able to authenticate, but not login to my inbox....

Back in February, Spotify, the world’s most popular music streaming service, launched a new feature that would revolutionize the way you listen to music . Spotify AI DJ is a smart and personalized music mixer that creates seamless playlists based on your mood, preferences, and listening history. Related: Top 7 Spotify Settings You May Need To Change Deezer vs Tidal vs YouTube Music: Battle of the Underdogs Here’s the full list of Countries that Have access to Spotify DJ as of August 08, 2023...

Buying and selling stocks on the U.S stock market from Nigeria is now a very easy thing to do. All that is required is a smartphone, internet, and the right amount of money to get started. Startups like Bamboo have made the entire process of trading U.S stocks from Nigeria a seamless experience. All you need is a smartphone, strong internet connection, the Bamboo app and the right amount of money to get started....

Google Photos is a photo and video sharing and storage service developed by Google. It allows users to store an unlimited number of photos and videos in high quality and offers features such as photo organization, sharing, and editing. The service was launched in 2015 and has since become one of the most popular photo management and sharing platforms in the world. Starting from June 1, 2021, Google began asking users to pay for additional storage if they exceed their free 15 GB of storage across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos....

Lets make this clear; Mobile phones and mobile apps alone will not save Africa as you’ve read in several western media outlets. At least Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) doesn’t believes so. That’s why the University has launched a mid-range laptop dubbed the Taifa A3. The Taifa A3 isn’t like one of those devices sent from abroad to save poor African kids. The laptop assembled in Kenya sports a 14-inch screen, 2....

Thrilled, excited, expectant are some of the words that would best explain this moment. We have been anxiously waiting for it after lots of back-end hard work by the team. So much energy has been channeled into redesigning the site that Frank Odongkara , the man who took on the task of designing the website, has for instance been coding more than he could eat, making sure that the site is optimized for display on various devices and platforms and effective navigation for the reader....

It’s 3 days now at the Orange Uganda Expo 2013 here at the UMA showgrounds. The TechPost team has been trailing various booths by Orange and its partners for the most compelling gadgets with unique technology, features and functionality. Here are the devices that wowed us the most. Sony Smartwatch The Sony SmartWatch, is a wearable device that connects to an Android smartphone and can display Twitter feeds, SMS, among other things....

While the Boom J8 is still trending Tecno has been releasing a device almost every two weeks. from the W4, W3, L8, to the J8. After a few leaks here and there mainly by Nigerian and Kenyan bloggers, Tecno published the specs and features on their website. What they are promising is that the C9 is a Camera phone like none you have seen before. They have compared the quality and output of the C9 to that of the iPhone 6s and Samsung S6....