Author: Kaluka wanjala

Safaricom will over the next three weeks conduct a major upgrade of the M-PESA platform. This becomes the third major upgrade since M-PESA’s launch ten years ago, and the first such upgrade since Safaricom migrated the platform to Kenya in 2015. As a result of the upgrade process, all M-PESA services will be unavailable for a period of two hours on 30th June 2017, from 1.00 A.M. to 3.00 AM. International Money Transfer (IMT), KCB M-PESA, M-Shwari and M-Kesho services will be unavailable on 5th July 2017 for a period of two hours, from 1.00 A.M. to 3.00 AM.  In…

By now, you probably have heard about the new ransomware tool called PetrWrap. News about this ransomware tool surfaced yesterday and it was reported that it had affected key government assets in Ukraine. We have seen an increase in ransomware attacks the last 12 months and this is just the latest one. Essentially, a ransomware is a malicious software that encrypts some of your files and asks you to pay a certain amount of money to have them decrypted. The malware holds your files at ransom and only those who developed it can give you the key and in most…

African Media Agency (AMA) The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung, today announced the launch of NEF Africa Science Week in Nairobi, Kenya. Sylvia Mukasa, NEF Ambassador, ICT & Telecommunications Consultant and entrepreneur with a special focus on emerging enterprise technologies and Cloud Computing, together with local academic, science and technology champions, will lead the event. The event aims to recalibrate innovation in Kenya with the right investments and incubator environment can lead to real economic dividends. The goal is to raise public awareness on…

Facebook is by far the most popular social networking site, almost everyone knows this as Facebook is the widely used social site that most people sign up for when they are ready to get into the social networking world. Facebook has revealed that it has reached a new milestone and now has 2 billion monthly users. This was revealed yesterday by the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg who used Facebook (obviously) to share the information. He wrote, “As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially 2 billion people!. We’re making progress connecting the world, and now let’s bring the…

The Google Play Store has so many apps, some are free and some are not, meant to do specific things when installed in our phones. Not everyone needs the premium apps that you have to pay for to download but I think that when they are free, they are worth checking out. It won’t cost you a think after all right? This week, there are a few premium apps available for free on the Play Store. Normally, you would be required to pay a small fee from $0.99 to $2.99 to get these apps but right now they are available…

Africans who live too far from the power grid or cannot afford a power connection now have a cheaper option to access a fully powered home entertainment system. d.light, a global solar kit maker has launched a flagship solar home system that will enable users to not only light their homes and charge their phones, but also watch digital TV channels from the comfort of their homes. The solar X850, which was launched globally today at d.light Africa headquarters in Nairobi, is the company’s first foray into a platform-based solar home system for its customers. This means that customers can…

By now, you already know that Infinix will be launching its next phablet, the Note 4, next Monday. We have already told you about this here. We even revealed some of the key specs the phablet will come with. One thing that we did not talk about in the post last week was the stylus pen that the Infinix Note 4 is expected to come with. Official images shared by Infinix reveal this although the company hasn’t official said anything about the Stylus Pen (X-Pen).  The image shared by the company shows the Infinix Note 4 with the X-Pen (I…

Cisco unveiled intent-based networking solutions that represent one of the most significant breakthroughs in enterprise networking. The introduction is the culmination of Cisco’s vision to create an intuitive system that anticipates actions, stops security threats in their tracks, and continues to evolve and learn. It will help businesses to unlock new opportunities and solve previously unsolvable challenges in an era of increasing connectivity and distributed technology. This new network is the result of years of research and development by Cisco to reinvent networking for an age where network engineers managing hundreds of devices today will be expected to manage 1…

Google has just pushed the first update to Google Glass, the first one in three years. Google Glass was launched back in October 2014 but never really attracted mainstream consumers to buy it. This was back when Wearables had just hit the market and Google thought that they would conquer the market with Glass, well this never happened. Well, the device that was never successful just got its first firmware update that brings native support for pairing Glass with Bluetooth devices among other minor performance tweaks and bug fixes. Even though this is sort of a minor update, it is…

Are you one of the people who are still using devices running Android 2.1 or older? If you are, you should know that Google will be ending support for the Android Market on Android version 2.1 and older. The company will end support on June 30 bringing an end to the app store that we haven’t really heard much about recently. Android 2.1 was released way back in 2010 but there are still people who are using it. Its market share is insignificant according to the latest Android distribution numbers that Google released at the beginning of the month. When…