The Meta and Rayban smart glasses are one gadget every tech geek would want to explore. Seeing how you can take pictures and videos without holding your phone up, I purchased one myself after our initial review. The Wayfarer was my obvious choice since it’s more subtle and looks just like a prescription lens. So this post will review the specifications, features and my holistic experience of the Wayfarer Meta Smart Glasses....
For a long time now, Airtel Kenya has been playing catch-up with the market leader, Safaricom. Recent CA reports show that Airtel is closing in on Safaricom at slow but steady pace and today, Airtel is pushing yet another lucrative proposition for it’s would-be customers. Starting today, new Airtel customers will by default be on a tariff that allows them to make calls across any network in the country for a flat rate of Ksh 2/- per minute....
But what exactly is VoLTE and how does it benefit you? In this blog post, we will answer some of the most common questions about VoLTE and how to use it on your Airtel Kenya SIM card. What is VoLTE and how does it work? VoLTE is a technology that enables voice calls to be carried over the 4G network, instead of the traditional 2G or 3G networks. This means that your voice is converted into data packets and transmitted over the same network that you use for browsing, streaming, and downloading....
The Tech community (together with Samsung) have waited a long time for Apple to announce its first major products of the year. And then we got two: the 64-bit iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, plus the official launch of iOS 7. Not the much rumored iWatch or Apple TV. In anticipation of Apple’s SmartWatch that been rumored to be called the iWatch, Samsung announced the Galaxy Gear — its own smart watch — last week at IFA in Berlin....
Take a stroll on Kampala-Jinja road in the Central Business District one sunny day; I guarantee you will be amazed at the endless back-to-back computer shops showcasing name brands like Acer, HP, Dell, even Apple. Uganda’s Indian community dominated the genuine computer retail business years gone by, but things have changed. More and more Ugandans from across the spectrum are getting wise to how legitimate business should be conducted. This is a how-to on how to source laptops in Uganda....
I opened my first Bank account just as I was joining campus. At the time, there was one product, YEA by Cooperative Bank , that was being marketed as sort of the account for Young Innovators, Students and Hustlers. YEA Access Current Account was the new sensation in town, every smart hustler in Kenya was opening this bank account. People who were starting life, students and all sorts of hustlers were rushing to open YEA Access Current Account because of ONE important thing....
By now, Coronavirus shouldn’t be new to anyone. We’ve heard of its symptoms (cough, fever, breathing difficulty, etc.) and how it spreads among humans in different countries. Health workers have said our best shot at protecting ourselves against the virus is to practice social distancing, wash our hands for at least 20 seconds and avoid touching our faces and eyes with our hands. But have you wondered if you need to clean your smartphone regularly, to keep coronavirus off the smartphone?...
MTN Uganda unveiled a new offer that will allow Ugandans to send Mobile Money up to 30,000/-, at as they encourage people to minimize the physical exchange of paper money. This is because there is a high risk of transmission of COVID-19 through physical cash. It also launched a data bundle called ‘ Work from Home ‘ that will enable you to work from home. The MTN Work From Home data bundles can be activated using MTN Momo and is valid from 9 AM to 5 PM (the most common working hours)....
AI video generators are causing a revolution in video creation. Ideally, creating videos for your social media channels like Youtube or even as onboarding prompts can take a lot of time. Picture hosting a training session or workshop as a small business. Asides from the time you’d spend, there are also material resources like renting a studio and shooting a session. Luckily, there are now AI generators that not only convert text to pictures but also generate videos for your needs....
ChatGPT is building a huge library of highly functional plugins and recently, Open AI has completed the partnership with Canva. Since Canva is popular for its thousands of templates, icons and design use cases, this partnership is bringing in a plugin that can allow you to create instant designs with a single prompt. In this post, we’ll look into how this plugin works and how you can access it for your content creation needs....
In Summary: What we liked Really small footprint More than enough ports Modern hardware with good performance Fairly upgradable What’s not so great: This device can be pretty expensive Lack of HDMI alienates a lot of users Yeah, you read the title correctly. While many might be privy to the Dell OptiPlex 7070 Ultra that doubles up as a mini PC and a monitor so it can be categorized as an All-in-One office workhorse, the Dell OptiPlex 7070 Micro accomplishes the same while being a lot more discreet....
If Google is the gateway to the internet, Facebook is the online destination in Uganda. The social giant’s rise to stardom began in 2007, the same year that Internet really began to make sense to many Ugandans. Percentage of individuals using the internet in Uganda: Source ITU 2007 is the same year that internet usage in Uganda began to experience an exponential rise which can be attributed to two factors; the advent of Mobile internet which Africell (Orange Uganda then) popularized and the Mobile-friendly Facebook social networking application....
2019 was the best year yet for investment into the African tech startup space, with 311 companies banking a combined US$491.6 million. This is according to the annual African Tech Startups Funding Report 2019 released by startup news and research portal Disrupt Africa, which is now in its fifth year. The report, which tracks the total amount of funding raised by African tech startups each year, found the number of startups that secured investment increased by more than 50 per cent on 2018, while total funding grew 47 per cent....
Do you sell digital products and you’re tired of constantly replying to DMS online or processing individual orders on your business social media accounts? Well, countless platforms in Africa are rising to fill this need. As a creative or small business, using industry giants like Paystack and Flutterwave might be a little overboard and so you need a solution that caters to micro and small businesses. If you’re a digital creator, all you need might also be to create a globally acceptable link for receiving payments....
Glovo, a Barcelona based start-up launched in Kenya, Ghana, and Egypt in December of 2018 in a move to transform the way consumer access to local goods. This was meant to enable anyone to get nearly any product delivered to their doorstep in less than 60 minutes. Presently in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and launching across Africa, Glovo’s on-demand mobile application connects customers with independent local couriers, who acquire goods from any restaurant or shop in a city and also deliver urgent packages for a variable fee....
According to Fahim Saleh, CEO Gokada, as from August 14, 2019, Gokada will be unavailable. The app will be down, and the pilots will be off the road. Although the shut down will only be for two weeks. This is to sort out some of the operational issues that the CEO observed on a recent Gokada trip which he explained in a medium post. He said, “ So what’s going on?...
Google has announced that its next step after Google Feed is Google Discover and it’s about News. “We’re launching a major update to this experience, including a new name, a fresh look, and a brand-new set of features.”said Karen Corby, Google Search Group Product Manager. More types of content appear in Google Discover, including videos and other “fresh visual content.” Notably older articles and videos will also appear, with Google noting that this “evergreen” content will be “new to you,” but not necessarily to the web....
Streaming games have been a thing for some time now, whether it is from the cloud or from a remote PC, the big players in the tech world are starting to take interest in this line of streaming. Similar to the way you stream music from Spotify and movies from Netflix, your game is being rendered in the cloud and the visuals are relayed back to you. However, the only difference here is that data goes back and forth rather than the one-way data flow in movie or music streaming....
Grammarly isn’t lagging behind in the AI takeover. Being one of the earliest companies to introduce writing assistants through AI, Grammarly recently incorporated generative AI into their experience. This means, while the software is already an editing tool, it’s pretty much added some interesting features through Grammarly GO, that’ll make your writing and editing experience so much easier. This post will give you insights into what updates you can expect to see with this new development to the Grammarly experience....
Last year, 2011, was an epic year for the Ugandan innovation space as we saw the Kiira EV — the first electric in whole East and Central African region by Makerere University (MUK) students test the road for the first time. However, we still don’t know whether the Kiira EV was just a proof of concept or it’s actually a product that will one day meet the road as a result of a collaboration between the academia in the University and the business community or investors....
