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Uganda’s telecommunications companies seem to be on a hunt for new revenue streams. Competition has driven down the margins from traditional voice, data and text services; As a result telecom companies have been pushing value added services that ran on top of the traditional services they provide. The biggest of these of course is Mobile Money. There’s also the various subscription services that are responsible for most of the spam SMS we receive daily....

In September 2021, Slack rolled out the audio clip feature that’d let users record and send short audio and video messages on the platform. This new feature is meant to help employees communicate better with their team members. Usually, things are better understood when recorded than when written and this could be one of the reasons Slack introduced this feature. In this post, we’ll walk you through how to record audio clips and send them to your teammate on Slack....

3-D Secure is a payer authentication security protocol created by MasterCard and Visa to mitigate fraudulent card transactions online. 3-D Secure protocol for MasterCard is branded ‘MasterCard SecureCode’ while Visa brands as ‘Verified by Visa . ’ For the past decade, digital commerce has been a rapidly growing area of making payments. This has been partly fueled by the growing list of payment apps and devices. Buyers now have more means than ever to pay for their purchases....

There’s a quiet crisis going on in Uganda. Things aren’t looking so good for our oil dreams. In the last 6 months the global price of crude oil has plummeted by close to 50%. Consequently, the estimated value of Uganda’s recoverable oil reserves has also fallen by over $70 billion. True to form however, pump prices in Uganda only ever seem to respond to increases in global prices and have barely moved....

Easybuy is a mobile device financing platform operated by Palmcredit , a consumer loan company. With this platform, users get to purchase mobile phones and other devices on credit and pay back in more comfortable monthly installments. Smartphone prices are apparently on the rise, hence, we listed a few other platforms that lets you finance the purchase of your next device with a loan. And also grants you flexible repayment plans....

Prime Reading : You can read as much as you like from over a thousand top Kindle books, magazines, etc. Prime Delivery : This offers free, fast, and convenient ways to get millions of items, with various delivery options; unlimited 2-day delivery, same day delivery, and 2-hour deliver in some areas. Prime Video : Watch Amazon original, movies and TV shows. Prime Music : Access to over two million song and hundreds of playlists, ad-free....

Google mail ( Gmail ) comes with a default white material design background. If — like myself — you find the background mundane, you should change it to something more colorful and fun. Luckily, there’s a provision in Gmail that allows users change the background theme of their Gmail dashboard. Follow the steps below to change your Gmail background theme. 1.Log in to your Gmail account on your web browser....

Google Sheets is a web-based application designed by Google to enable users to create, update and modify spreadsheets and share the data with others, online – in real-time. And because Google Sheets is a web-based application, it can be accessed through the Google Chrome browser, Firefox browser, Microsoft Edge, and Safari for Mac users. It is also available as a mobile app for Android device users. Related Article : Google Docs vs Microsoft Word: Which Should You Use...

Converting your Word documents to PDF can be very useful when you’re sending out a document and you want them to be viewed by everyone the same way you worked on them. That is, you don’t want anyone altering it’s content. Sometimes, you might want to convert them back to Word documents so you can make an edit. We understand that this can be quite challenging, particularly for the newbies....

Create Roku PIN You can create a PIN by logging into your Roku account on the Roku website using your phone or computer. To use your computer, simply visit my.roku.com and log in to your account. Then under PIN preferences , you will see if a PIN is required to make purchases or if parental controls are set. So click on Update . Now you can choose to require a PIN to make purchases or to play any content within The Roku Channel or both of these options....

Should you decide to call it quits on Google, it’s very simple to delete your Google account. Your account is linked to all of Google services including Gmail, Photos, Youtube, Maps, Google Drive etc. So you’re practically ending your digital life. You want to think thoroughly about it before you act because the action is irreversible once confirmed. Alright, so I created some Google account I no longer needed. So in a digital hygiene exercise, I set out to delete one....

A long time ago, when you click on a link within an application, it automatically opens the URL in your phone’s default browser or prompts you to pick a browser of choice. Now, things are a lot different. To keep users locked within their apps, developers and publishers introduced browsers within their apps (called in-app browsers ) that opens URLs and webpages directly within the app without leaving to your phone’s default browser....

The Safe mode option on Samsung devices is a diagnostic tool available on Samsung phone or tablet that force the device to run on the basic operating system and disable most 3rd party applications to solve issues related to battery life, connectivity, and much more. What this basically means is, when your Galaxy smartphone gives you trouble (if you experiencing significant slowness or other problems while starting up your phone), you can easily use safe mode to troubleshoot to fix the issue....

There’s currently an influx of fake or clone AirPods made and distributed by random manufacturers in the market. These AirPods are designed exactly like the original so it’s tough to tell the difference between them. So, this is where a serial number comes in. Every Apple-manufactured AirPods come with a serial number and to confirm if they are legit or not, you should be able to find your AirPods serial number easily....

There are always moments when a live television broadcast finds you in your busiest hour, yet you would not wish to miss a second of it. This is when the PVR decoder function becomes a necessity. A PVR, short for Personal Video Recorder, is an interactive TV recording device built in a set-top box with the capability to record and play back television programs and store them in digital form for which you can later pause, rewind, stop, or fast-forward the recorded program....

There are many reasons why it is important to rate and review apps that you’ve used. First off, when you rate or review an app on the Apple App Store, you help other users understand the app’s use case, its challenges, and other details that they need to know before they decide to download it for themselves. Also, ratings and reviews help developers behind the app gather feedback about users’ experience and any challenges they might be facing while using the app....

If you own a Yelight Smart bulb, you might occasionally want to reset it. Perhaps, you are connecting it to a new network or you wish to give it away or sell it off. Whatever, the case, resetting a Yeelight LED is pretty easy. Before you get started, connect it to your light fixture or bulb holder and turn it on. Then power cycle it 5 times . Put it another way, switch it on and off five times with 1 second intervals until the light that’s blinking....

If you love to send gifts to your loved ones, a gift card is probably the safest and most valuable present you can give. For example, if you know your loved one needs a new workstation, an IKEA gift card not only shows how thoughtful you are but gives them the creative room to get what they truly want. In this post, we’ll review the stores you can purchase from, how to buy a gift card on Kuda along with the countries you can send it to....

The pandemic has forced us into a huge social experiment in terms of how we live and school. All of a sudden, e-learning platforms and edTech solutions are becoming a norm alike for both students and teachers. For many students, math can be a particularly challenging subject in school. Continue to read how you can use the Microsoft math solver to get step-by-step explanations on your math questions. A few things we can agree on is that Maths is sequential, in that each lesson is part of the foundation for future learning that’s why it’s important for students to understand each concept as they go....

Say you are carrying out a presentation on PowerPoint and the thought of reaching out to the laptop every now and then is not as appealing to you as using your phone as a remote control. Or maybe you have docked your laptop to your TV and are enjoying your show and you need to select the next episode. But you are so comfortable and warm. Well, since you’ve got your phone with you, here’s how to use it as a remote mouse and keyboard for your laptop....