Author: Alvin Wanjala

Instagram TV shortly termed as IGTV was Facebook’s plan of ushering a new era of binge-watching videos on Instagram. The company placed several channels inside the app where users could be able to access IGTV from. Unfortunately, some channels are rarely used by people. In response to TechCrunch, an Instagram spokesperson said the company has removed the IGTV button from the top of the app’s main interface. The main reason behind the move is that, well, Instagram users rarely click on the IGTV button. “Very few are clicking into the IGTV icon in the top right corner of the home…

Just last week, we reported Huawei seeding out the EMUI 10 stable update to the Huawei Y9 Prime 2019. Towards the end of the week, Huawei also started rolling out Android 10 update to the last member of its last year’s P30 Series devices. Android 10 is available for the Huawei P30 Lite and is splashed on top with the company’s proprietary UI – EMUI 10. That means the update ships with new Android 10 features as well as those introduced in EMUI 10. Part of the new features include system-wide dark mode – for better readability under low light…

Even though most people who had a chance to use the POCO F1, the first phone of Xiaomi’s POCO brand, are still eagerly waiting for a successor, the parent company has announced new plans with the sub-brand. In a tweet, Manu Kumar Jain, Xiaomi’s Global VP and Managing Director of Xiaomi India, has announced that POCO will now be an independent brand rather than Xiaomi’s sub-brand. “What started as a sub-brand within Xiaomi, has grown into its own identity. POCO F1 was an incredibly popular phone. We feel the time is right to let POCO operate on its own. Join…

OnePlus is a well-known brand in the world at the moment. But unlike its peers, the company has not been ambitious on launching its foldable phone just yet. They did look at it, though. OnePlus CEO Peter Lau revealed this in an interview with the Verge. According to him, the company has not found any significance in launching a foldable device just yet. He says the advantages of the current foldable technology is “outweighed by the shortcomings or the disadvantages of the current state of the technology.” Peter Lau raised concerns on the foldable displays like the creases which appear…

Facebook’s instant messaging service – WhatsApp – will no longer have Ads. The social media giant has abandoned its controversial plans of bringing ads on the platform. Facebook announced its plans to bring ads on WhatsApp in 2018, stating that it would be integrated into the Status feature – an Instagram Stories look-alike feature. According to WSJ, who spoke to people familiar with the matter, the company disbanded the team that was tasked with finding effective ways to monetize the platform. The company even went ahead and removed the team’s work from WhatsApp’s code. As per now, the plans of…

An edit button for you to make up for typos in tweets will “probably” never exist, according to Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey. The company co-founder and CEO confirmed the news in an interview with the Wired where he answered questions that had been posted by users on the platform. The interview, published on Tuesday, involved the media company’s team asking Twitter’s CEO a range of questions regarding the platform. He covered a range of topics, and one key notable thing that affects most people is the edit button. When asked about chances of bringing an edit button on Twitter in…

MediaTek has been on a roll since 2019. The company partnered with Intel to bring 5G support to laptops, introduced its new line of flagship mobile processors with 5G, and also announced a new range of gaming-focused mobile processors last year. In 2020, the company’s first announcement is a new processor, the Helio G70. The Helio G70 is a new gaming-oriented chipset but for entry-level phones. The company announced its first line of gaming chipsets back in 2019, with a G moniker, the first chipsets in line being the Helio G90 and G90T. Like the Helio G90, the G70 is…

Facebook is often one of the easiest options to use when signing up to an app or even a service. You don’t need to tire yourself setting a password, and other information is filled on your behalf hassle-free. With so much simplicity, it also presents a security challenge. You can’t know when your Facebook credentials have been used to login to an app – unless you check the apps you’ve connected to manually. The company has today launched a new feature that will notify you when your credentials are used to login to an app. The new feature will help…

Samsung has today announced that it has fully acquired TeleWorld Solutions, a Virginia-based telecommunications company that deals with wireless networking and consulting services. The company specializes in network design, testing, and optimization services to both mobile service and cable operators, as well as equipment OEMs. Although the company deals in a variety of things, Samsung’s primary interest lies in 5G. “The acquisition of TWS will enable us to meet mobile carriers’ growing needs for improving their 4G and 5G networks, and eventually create new opportunities to enhance our service capabilities to our customers,” said Paul Kyungwhoon Cheun, Executive Vice President…

As part of the bigger campaign by the parent company to fight the spread of fake news on the platform, Instagram is cracking down on digitally altered images. Some users have reported not being able to see some images that are not necessarily “false information” but have been photoshopped for artistic reasons. It, however, seems like this isn’t always the case. Some photoshopped images have been spared and haven’t been flagged as false information. Apparently, the company has handed over the fate of any digitally altered images to independent fact-checkers. If they consider a photoshopped image to be “false information”,…