Up to this point, every tech company is chasing the booming work from home industry induced by the coronavirus pandemic. Google wants Gmail to be your new home for work, Microsoft, too and now Zoom is not leaving any chance for potential growth. Zoom is expanding to the hardware market now that’s it has a controlling share of the video conferencing industry in terms of software. Zoom has just launched a new 27-inch touchscreen device aimed at helping remote workers in partnership with DTEN. The device is called Zoom For Home — DTEN ME. It hopes to replace your laptop,…
Author: Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala has been writing about technology for over 2 years(and counting). He writes about different topics in the consumer tech space. He loves streaming music, programming, and gaming during downtimes.
Google is working on a big Gmail redesign. In leaked slides meant to be presented at ongoing Cloud Next ’20: OnAir event, which lasts for nine weeks, we have an early view of the upcoming Gmail face. The Gmail face lift is here to make the app “your new home for work” says a statement on one of the slides. So what’s new? Gmail Redesign The first change in this roadmap is the integration of Google Meet in Gmail. Google Meet is already available for a number of iOS users and widely to everyone on the web. On top of…
Last year, Google launched Play Pass, a subscription service that gives its users access to premium apps and games on the Play Store without ads and in-app purchases. The service went live in September and is now expanding to a number of new markets. The new markets include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom. To sweeten the deal, Google is also adding more apps and games in the program. New Additional Titles Just listing an app on Google Play doesn’t make it listed under Play Pass. So developers must enter an agreement…
(Article originally published on July 13) Fast charging is one of the new standard features in the smartphone industry. In the recent past, companies have taken bold steps to increase the rate of charging our smartphones dramatically. Currently, OPPO holds the mantle with the fastest charging brick on the market at 65W. But that’s still not enough, according to the company. OPPO is almost doubling that with an upcoming 125W charging brick… 125W! That’s faster than Xiaomi’s 100W fast-charging tech teased last year. For context, Xiaomi said the 100W fast-charging brick takes a battery from 0-100% in 17 mins. Recently,…
[Update: July 22, 2020] Google Meet is now available inside Gmail for Android. It’s available in Gmail’s latest version and will be available for some starting today. Google says it will take up to two weeks to be available for everyone. [Original: July 14, 2020] Mid-June, Google announced it’s adding a dedicated tab for its video calling product, Meet, inside Gmail on both Android and iOS. A few weeks later, Google has now announced that the feature is now rolling out to iOS users. “We’re starting to roll out the feature today to iOS, meaning users can join secure video…
After TikTok, together with other 58 Chinese apps, were banned in India, the US government is also considering to ban the popular short video sharing platform. TikTok’s problems have been eagerly welcome by competitor apps in India and the US tech companies have also jumped on the bandwagon trying to replace TikTok as fast as possible. Instagram rolled out Reels, a TikTok-like feature in India, immediately after the ban. Currently, Snapchat is reported to be testing a new navigation system for public content. With its launch, Snapchat users will navigate public content(content in Snapchat Discover section) with a vertical swiping…
Android 10 is the almost “obsolete” as Google gears to launch its successor: Android 11. In a blog post, Google said, “the adoption of Android 10 has been faster than any previous versions of Android.” The company delved into the specifics revealing that Android 10 was running on 100 million devices 5 months post launch. That may not sound like a massive number but compared to Android Pie, the adoption rate has improved by 28%. In other words, manufacturers are updating their Android devices to the latest version faster than they used to. The progress can’t be credited to the…
Microsoft has announced a big update coming to Teams. The newly announced features are aimed to achieve three things; reduce meeting fatigue, make meetings more inclusive and engaging, and, lastly, help in streamlining work. One of the noticeable announcements is the ability to support up to 1,000 participants. All of these people can actively take part in the meeting by being able to chat. But if you want to accommodate even more participants Teams allows up to 20,000 people at once. Albeit, the additional participants will only view the meeting and not take part in it actively. Microsoft Teams is…
If you’ve been waiting for a chance to get a glimpse of the next major iOS or iPadOS update, here it is. Apple has just released the first public beta of iOS 14(and iPad OS 14), its major OS update for iPhones, to everyone. The key word is “beta” so keep the possible bugs and flaws that comes with early versions of software in mind. And the fact that some apps and features may not function properly. The stable versions of iOS 14 – and iPad OS 14 – will come out later. But before that, the company is expected…
WhatsApp for Business has been out since 2018 and recently just announced a significant milestone. The platform’s parent company, Facebook, just revealed that WhatsApp Business now has 50 million active users. Along with the 50 million active monthly users’(MAUs) milestone, WhatsApp Business catalogs now draws 40million views per month. India is WhatsApp Business’s largest market, with over 15 million MAUs followed by Brazil at over 5 million MAUs. To celebrate the milestone, Facebook is rolling out new features on the business-focused version of its instant messaging platform to help businesses grow. One of them is the QR Code feature, which…