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As the Coronavirus continues to wreak havoc around the world, governments have advised their citizens to stay at home, some have even gone as far as imposing partial and total lockdown. These measures have affected a lot of small and big businesses, especially brick-&-mortar stores that rely on customers walking in to buy items. However, because people will need essential items during the lockdown period, regulators in Nigeria made sure to exempt dispatch riders and businesses that offer doorstep delivery....

Google TV has become the centerpiece of my living room, letting me cut the cord and stream live TV without a traditional cable box. Whether you want news, sports, reality shows, or classic movies, there are now more options than ever for watching live TV right from your Google TV device. I’ve tried them all—here’s a breakdown of the top five services, how they work, and what makes each one worth your time....

When you want to learn how to play chess or just want to continue practicing, it’s almost impossible to take a chess board everywhere you go. This can be easily rectified with a chess game app. Most chess apps give you almost the same experience a chess board does. Only this time, it’s more accessible. It’s why you should have a couple of chess game apps on your iPhone. In this post, I’ll take you through 7 of the best chess game apps you can download on your iPhone....

Have you ever needed to make that call so bad and then you realise you do not have airtime? To make it worse, you are in an area where you do not have access to airtime even if you wanted to. Or let’s just say you are dead broke but you still need to stay in touch with the people who matter to you. Telecoms in Uganda have had this service for a while now allowing users to borrow airtime (and for some data) and pay it back later....

In Nigeria, there are various platforms that let you pay your utility bills online . These platforms are quite useful as they save you the physical strength of going to offices to pay your bills. Asides that, with these platforms, you get to handle less cash notes. There are different kinds of utility payments paid by Nigerians — Electricity Bills, Water Bills, Cable TV bills, Gas and so on. This post aggregates platforms where you can make these bill payments online from the comfort of your home and fingertips....

Depending on how much you earn from whatever it is you do (job, businesses, investments, etc.), saving could come easy or hard to you. But one thing is for certain: saving is just as important as, say, eating or breathing. Either short-term or long-term, there are a lot of needs, wants, and responsibilities one could (and should) save for. Bills, vacation, rent, school fees, investment, health, unforeseen events, etc. are some of the common goals people save towards....

The news of the passing away of South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela today at the age of 95 has caused an outpouring of solidarity and condolence messages from political leaders and ordinary users alike on Twitter with the hashtags #RIPNelsonMandela, #RememberingMandela and #madiba currently trending on the micro-blogging website. We only managed to get tweets of the most savvy African leaders on Twitter and this is what they said about Mandela’s death....

Mobile data is getting increasingly affordable as we get more and more smartphones into the market. Kenya, like many other emerging markets, has seen a huge uptake of smartphones over the past few years and smartphone prevalence is at its all-time high, a trend that is only set to continue. Carriers are also recognizing this shift and in line with this, we have seen a lot of improvement to 4G infrastructure and internet speeds across the board with Telkom Kenya and Airtel Kenya working hard to close the gap between themselves and industry leader, Safaricom....

Bharti Airtel Limited, a leading global telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa and Eaton Towers, a leading independent telecoms tower company in Africa, today announced an agreement for the divestment of over 3500 telecoms towers from Airtel to Eaton Towers. In the new partnership, Airtel will sell and lease back over 3500 towers to Eaton in 6 countries across its African operations under a 10-year contract....

Decoding mobile processor names can be quite confusing going by just the combination of numbers and letters assigned to it. This applies to both AMD and Intel , I mean what’s the difference between a Ryzen 5900HX and a Ryzen 6900X ? In a bid to make it easier for consumers, AMD has revealed a new naming nomenclature for its 2023 Ryzen mobile processors . The new naming guideline from AMD is meant to replace the current processor naming scheme....

In addition to it’s free Apple News service, Apple launches an even more robust new platform themed the Apple News Plus. The ‘Plus’ addition is there for a reason as you would have to pay for this plan to gain access to 300 magazines cutting across several categories like Sports, Lifestyle, Fashion, Food, Politics and more. Some of the magazines featured on this platform are The New Yorker , Time , National Geographic , GQ , Vogue , Vanity Fair , The Wall Street Journal and more....

Over 5 billion individuals all over the planet utilize the web (internet) today – identical to 63.1 percent of the world’s complete populace as of July 2022. Web clients keep on developing as well, there are however some internet-related terms like Bandwidth, Latency, and Internet speed are often confused with this increasing number of netizens. In this article, we shall get to see what each term is and see some of the major differences in these related terms....

The digital world is growing, and so is online payments employed in it. This has greatly contributed to an increase in the e-commerce business. If you’re thinking of setting up an online store, there are some major factors such as an online payment system that is safe and secure to help your business grow Setting up an online ecommerce might be easier, but the hardest part of it is choosing the right payment method for you, the best that build trust with your customers, attracts clients, and meet your business needs....

Apple unveiled the iPhone 15 devices not too long ago and while these new devices are typical iPhones with crazy performance and a fine finish, the talk of town was Apple’s transition to USB-C, a more versatile port that’s been part of the Android ecosystem for the better part of the past decade. Ditching the lightening port seems like a harsh transition for many who’ve been living in Apple’s ecosystem for decades and for these people, one question has been on their minds....

For a few years now, the dark mode has been a preferred option for a bunch of people especially for those that use their computers or smartphones at night. Lately, its momentum has picked up the pace with more companies rolling out the dark side for their various apps. Native OS support for dark mode have also been released like on the macOS Mojave , Windows 10 and there are reports of it coming on Samsung’s mobile ‘One” UI as well as Xiaomi’s MIUI ....

Between you, popcorn and great weekend of movies and documentaries is a Multichoice’s DSTV decoder. Your entertainment experience will be determined by the quality of DSTV satellite decoder that you own. Multichoice currently has two kinds of decoders; the cheaper and smaller DSTV HD Zapper decoder and the feature-rich DSTV HD PVR Explora decoder that’s limited to Premium package customers. DSTV has over the years made major and minor upgrades to its decoders....

A new report by Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology and services, reveals astronomical data traffic in the Sub-Sahara region. The Telecom provider showed in its June 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa Ericsson Mobility Report that in 2014 phone users accessed 76,000 TB (terabyte) of data per month, double the 2013 figure of 37,500 TB per month. In 2015 the figures are expected to double again with mobile phone users accessing 147,000 TB per month....

Facebook in partnership with Airtel Uganda and BCS plan to dig about 500 miles of optic fiber in Uganda in an effort to bring more people online according to a new report from recode . While there’s still scanty details about the new initiative, what’s clear is that each of the three partners are committing some financial resources to the roll out. Facebook’s plans to dominate the internet landscape in Africa is an open secret....

Factory Reset Protection (FRP) is device protection security feature introduced on Android smartphones running Lollipop (5.1) onward aimed at preventing someone from just wiping your data during an unsanctioned factory reset and getting away with it. In theory, this feature is intended to render a lost or stolen device unusable by requiring one to enter Google account credentials of the last device user a factory reset in effect making it unappealing for phone thieves....

While the COVID-19 pandemic hit a lot of businesses hard (forcing a couple to shut down), a few others saw significant growth. Flutterwave, for instance, reported that the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the shift towards digital mode payments in Nigeria. This led to a surge in new users, and that eventually caught the attention of investors who have now invested in Flutterwave and helped it achieve its unicorn status. Flutterwave, one of Africa’s biggest financial technology companies, announced that it has raised $170 million in Series C funding....