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If you have grown accustomed to their great wheat flour, you might as well get along with their digital TV offering. Azam TV is the latest digital satellite Pay TV service provider to enter the Ugandan market and they are quite sure they aren’t late. With over 50 channels at only UXG 25,000, Azam TV hopes to have some of the Pay TV pie. The company is also offering a special promotion for early adopters of UGX 250, 000 for their satellite dish and decoder....

Bluetooth technology is a regular term in this current technology era. It’s one of the most common & simplest means of connection between devices thanks to its wireless nature and reliability. Smartphones, headphones, speakers, fitness trackers are amidst numerous devices that support this wireless technology. The latest innovation of the brand is Bluetooth 5. A brief history of Bluetooth As far back as 1994, Bluetooth was invented by Ericsson. The company was named after the 10th Century Denmark King, Harald Bluetooth....

Kampala, Feb20, 2014. Centenary bank has joined the Interswitch East Africa network in Uganda adding yet another innovation in enhancing their customer service. Interswitch East Africa operates a network that links different banks to enable their customers share Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) and Points of Sales(POS) services. With the addition of Centenary bank, the Interswitch network in Uganda now has 13 banks with 280 ATMs. The banks include; Cairo International Bank,Commercial Bank of Africa, DFCU Bank, Finance Trust Bank, Global Trust Bank, GT Bank(formerly Fina Bank), FINCA, Imperial Bank, Opportunity Bank, Orient Bank, Post Bank and United Bank for Africa....

CES 2019 is on for a few more days and we’re still seeing such cool devices being showcased. Latest of the bunch has got to be the new LG Signature OLED TV R. The “R” stands for its rollable screen, a 3-millimeter OLED panel that rises from a thin rectangular volume at its base. This is a beauty to behold and solves one of the problem with TVs, they tend to be eyesores when they’re turned off....

Your smartphone is now your life. That means that you need to even be more vigilant with the kind of information and transactions you make with your phone. That means which photos, contacts, messages and apps you want exposed to any eavesdropper. Chameleon OS’s Xhide Apps can help you with your security detail. The app is like a secrete vault where you conceal sensitive apps, photos, videos, recordings that you don’t want just about anyone who gets on your phone to use....

The market for wireless Bluetooth headphones is now saturated with all sorts of products. Finding a good headphone on a budget is especially hard. But the Cowin E7 have proved itself to be a great contender in the budget category of great-sounding, bassy Active Noise Cancelling (ANC) wireless Bluetooth headphones. I have been rocking the Cowin E7 for weeks now. There are a lot of good things to report about this headphone; they are comfortable in the ears, durable design, have long battery life, heavy bass, good noise cancellation and fast Bluetooth pairing....

Wouldn’t it be nice if overclocking your PC’s CPU were a little more straight forward? Sure, there are those automatic one-click software solutions that can give a quick boost to your CPU. But if you want to do it yourself, you end up looking at a lot of confusing options in your BIOS , instead of just a dial that you can turn to make the PC go faster. UEFI BIOS Overclocking...

What is RAM? Before we break down the various generations of RAM, i.e DDR4 vs DDR3 vs DDR2 vs DDR SDRAM, we should probably start with the basics. Firstly, DDR is RAM. If you have a computer, you are already using Computer RAM, whether or not you know or understand what exactly it does. RAM is basically computer data storage for programs currently in use. When you click on a program icon, the program loads onto RAM after which you can use it....

Even as Facebook Inc. faces intense scrutiny of its privacy practices, it is launching a pair of video-chat devices that will give it a deeper connection to what users do. Facebook enters the smart display space with two devices namely, Portal and Portal+. These devices are voice-controlled speakers with touchscreens that focus on video chatting with Facebook Messenger. The devices will cost about $199 for Portal and $349 for Portal+....

If you’re still connecting to the internet without a 4G LTE MiFi, then you’re definetely missing out. MiFis are sleek, portable, battery-powered devices that connect you to a fast internet network. Now we’ve already broken down several MiFis in the Ugandan market together with their features and prices. We defintely find Smile’s 4G LTE MiFi an irresistible product. Smile is one of the data networks running the faster 4G LTE mobile network standard....

Canva is a go-to tool for upcoming designers and storytellers. If you don’t have a standby design team, you can create infographics, flyers, social media posts and even blogpost covers here. The best part is that you can create all these designs, share them with your team for review and modify it – all from one dashboard. There’s also the option to download for offline use. While it’s becoming a very versatile and handy software, you can get lost in figuring out how to achieve a couple of things....

If you’ve been following the smartphone ecosystem for a while now, foldable smartphones shouldn’t be news to you. If you haven’t, here’s a brief recap: In April 2019, Samsung launched the Galaxy Fold . About two months after, the Huawei Mate X also launched. Oh! Before all of these, there was the Royole FlexPai — the world’s first foldable smartphone. Just recently, Samsung released another foldable phone, the much talked about Galaxy Z Flip ....

Jumia is bringing the biggest shopping event in the world to Uganda on November 27th! Get ready to buy your favorite products at crazy discounts on Jumia Black Friday. If you have been saving for that smartphone, Smart TV, dress or whatever it is, this is your chance as for a day only, discounts on multiple items will really be crazy. We are talking about upto 50% off. Black Friday originated from the U....

Ghana headquartered Leti Arts is mostly known for its stunning artwork as well as its very talented software development team. Founded by Eyram Tawia and Wesley Kirinya in 2009, the company’s mission is to create the next African superheroes via comics and games and has since crafted award winning games like iWarriors and Africa’s Legends to its portfolio. According to DevCongress , Later last year, Leti Arts won in the “Most Established App” category in the Vodafone AppStar Competition in Ghana when it presented Africa’s Legends ....

In recent times, we have seen massive security breaches on very many popular websites due to lax security protocols or maybe just normal blunders. Many of these breaches mean many users have accounts that have been compromised and their credentials available on the web. It truly is a sad state of affairs, seeing as we all have accounts with multiple platforms. On Tuesday, Google announced a new tool to help users....

We love our smartphones and rely on them for virtually everything. For a lot of us, it contains a massive amount of personal information and sensitive data and it can get really scary when we lose them or think we’ve lost them. Not to mention how expensive it can be to replace a smartphone. Smartphone companies like Samsung and Apple, and Software companies like Google understand that situations like this can put their users in a bad position, hence they created tools that can help smartphone owners track smartphones that are missing or stolen....

Google I/O 2013 is once again here! The glamorous annual event targeted towards developers where Google showcases it’s latest technology will be live in a few hours. There are a couple of things that industry pundits expect like the next version of Android which is expected not to be an overhaul as we’ve seen in the past, but rather, it may turn out to be a full-on upgrade to Android 5....

In 2015, Google introduced Google Station (an initiative aimed at offering free WI-FI services in public places) in India and planned to cover 400 railway stations in the country. It soon expanded into other countries including Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, and South Africa. Google’s aim at the time was to increase internet access to those who couldn’t afford it, and in turn, make money for itself by showing ads to those that make use of the service....

If you have power and you’re busy enjoying the games on your TV or making that cup of coffee, UMEME Yaka meter might never cross your mind. But when the lights go off, your world will stop spinning. And you’ll have to start troubleshooting your power problems starting with the Umeme Yaka meter. Umeme is phasing out the analog traditional meters in favor of the new Conlog digital power meters. If you don’t have Umeme Yaka in your area, be sure it’s coming soon....

Google TV launched in 2020 on the Google Chromecast as the new TV operating system from Google. It has since launched on smart TVs like Sony, Hisense, and more, as well as other Android streaming devices. And although it might seem like the introduction of Google TV is just a mere name change, a lot of new features and functionalities including personalized content, tailored recommendations, come with the new TV software....