Author: Kaluka wanjala

Yesterday, Telkom Kenya unveiled its new Mobile Money service, T-Kash. The company made so much noise about this product and this was expected. Ever since Telkom Kenya rebranded, its has had this hyped approach to almost everything it does. In a market dominated by Safaricom, you have to make so much noise for people to know you are around. So What’s T-Kash? As I pointed out in the first sentence of this post, it is the company’s Mobile Money Service just like M-Pesa. This is not the first mobile money by the company, it had Orange Money back in the…

Business is evolving in the face of two opposing technology trends: The transformative power of the cloud and the mounting cost of cybercrime. Living at the intersection of these new business realities are billions of people, putting pressure on businesses to ensure that employee and customer identities are protected. We see new data and identity thefts in the news on a weekly basis. More than three billion customer data records were lost to high-profile attacks in 2016 alone, with more than 60 percent of all data loss traced back to compromised identities. Establishing trusted identities is how a web-based economy…

Nokia ‘exited’ the smartphone market a few years ago but the company officially came back early last year with the unveiling of the Nokia 6. This was the first smartphone from HMD Global, the company behind the ‘new’ Nokia phones. The phone was first unveiled in China but made its way to international markets later in the year. HMD Global is run by people who used to work for Nokia so they do have some experience in this market and they are not just here to fill the space, they actually want to be among the top 5 smartphone markers…

Back in 2017, WhatsApp added an option for users to delete messages they accidentally send. This was a much-needed addition but was not perfect as users could only delete messages within the first 7 minutes of sending them. This was still good but not in all cases, there are situations where you need to recall the messages after 7 minutes but you are not able to. If this was you, I have good news for you. WhatsApp plans to give you more time and will increase the time you need to at least an hour. The exact time will be…

Earlier today, Telkom Kenya officially introduced its new mobile money service, T-Kash. This new service is replacing Orange Money, a service the company axed a couple of months back. T-Kash is here to compete with Safaricom’s M-Pesa and Airtel Money. Safaricom has a firm grip on the mobile money sector in Kenya and Telkom will not have an easy ride as they try to penetrate the market. For Telkom Kenya, T-Kash isn’t just another M-Pesa competitor, the company hopes it will be a reliable and alternative service for users. “With this service, we are offering a viable alternative mobile money…

Microsoft is about to roll out a major update to its official Android launcher. This is one of the many Android applications by the company and has been available to Android users for quite some time. Microsoft launcher is not the most popular launcher as that crown is held by other older and established launchers such as Nova. Microsoft wants to do all it can to make its launcher the go to one by adding new features and some of these will be making their way to the public very soon. The company has been testing these latest changes through…

Even before all existing Android smartphones get Android Nougat, Google is already working on Android P and its first developer preview is out. This is the very first public developer preview and is not recommended for everyone. From this first developer preview, Google is introducing the dreaded ‘notch’ to the ecosystem. We saw this notch on a handful of devices last year including the Essential phone and the iPhone X. It is not a pretty design feature but is sort of necessary as we strive to have thinner bezels on our smartphones. The notch is not just an irrelevant addition,…

WeChat is undoubtedly the most popular social media app in China. The app is well known outside China but is still not as widely used outside the country as it is in the country. The company behind WeChat, Tencent, has announced that the social media app now has 1 billion accounts. The company said that the spike in numbers is as a result of increase in social media usage and messaging during the Chinese New Year. WeChat is very diverse and can be a confusing application as it offers different features including social media features, access to banking services, allows…

Android is a very diverse smartphone ecosystem. On one hand, you have the high-end device with the top of the range features, on the other hand, you have entry level devices with low end features. In between these two classes, there are a number of different devices that target different users. With the different devices with different features, most developers tend to come up with apps that can target as many users as possible and some even go ahead and create apps that side-line some of the low-end devices to target the modern high-end devices. In these cases, these developers…

Twitter is a great social site but it can get messy and confusing sometimes. Given that Twitter displays content chronologically, you will see tweets as users share them. This is different from platforms such as Facebook that use algorithms to ensure you see content you are likely to interact with. With this, once you refresh your timeline, the tweets that were there will be pushed down and they won’t be at the top of the timeline the next time you log in to the app. This means that you have to find a way to save the tweets that you…