Author: Kaluka wanjala

Telegram has just rolled out an updated version of its messaging application. The company has announced Telegram 4.4 that comes with a ton of new features including a new media player which it says can better handle the playback of MP3s and music files that users send. In addition to the new media player, the latest update also introduces live locations. With these, Telegram users will be able to broadcast their current location to any chat in real time. You will be able to use this new feature effectively when you are on the move and you want to send…

HMD Global has had a very busy year as it reintroduced Nokia to the smartphone world. The Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6, Nokia 8 and the new Nokia 3310 are the devices we have seen from the company so far. The Nokia 8 is the flagship variant right now while the Nokia 3 is currently the cheapest model in the line-up. Going into 2018, HMD is working on a few other devices that it it will be unveiling soon. Rumours are that the three devices the company is working on are the Nokia 2, 7 and 9. We have…

WhatsApp is about to get even better with the inclusion of a feature many users have been asking for. The company has enabled a feature that will make it possible for users to delete WhatsApp messages that they have sent to individuals or groups. This is not the delete option we currently have on WhatsApp that only deletes the messages on your end. With this new one, you can actually delete the messages for everyone. If you have ever sent a message to the wrong group/person, then this makes sense to you as previously you could delete the message but…

BlackBerry has unveiled its latest smartphone and this is its first water-resistant device with an IP67 rating. This new smartphone goes by the name the BlackBerry Motion that expands the company’s Android phone lineup. The BlackBerry Motion comes with a 5.5 inch display with a Full HD resolution. This is a full touch display as the phone does not come with a physical keyboard unlike the BlackBerry KEYOne. I am not a huge fan of physical keyboards and I am sure not many Android users even need them. This is probably why BlackBerry has decided to ditch them on this…

It is not like we have been expecting a new smartphones from Microsoft but given that the company was not specific with its plans, we were just not sure what it was planning for us. The last device from the company that I reviewed was the Microsoft Lumia 950 last year in June. This phone was announced back in 2015 so it is safe to say that we have not seen a device from the company in over 2 years. Microsoft was not clear if this was the last smartphone it was going to make or if we should be…

Google unveiled the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones a couple of days. These devices are here to take over from the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones from last year. Both the original Pixel and the new Pixel 2 smartphones have some mazing cameras but that is not the only thing Google wants people to know. Google is letting the world know that the new Pixel smartphones are here. These are flagship devices but not with the hefty price tags we have seen on the latest devices from Samsung or Apple. With the launch of the Pixel 2 and…

Africa trended this month when Morocco’s Hamza Jebbour and Kenya’s Charles Mutua won the Cisco Networking Academy’s NetRiders competition. The two competed with over 15,400 entrants globally to win a Study Trip Prize to Cisco headquarters in San Jose, in January 2018. In total, Africa had 19 competitors in the third round of the competition which saw the two excel to first and second place respectively. Every year, Cisco opens up its resources for young students and professionals to enter the much acclaimed Cisco NetRiders competition. The competition is part of Cisco’s CSR flagship programme, the Networking Academy (NetAcad) – launched…

Cisco’s industry leading cybersecurity research team, Cisco Talos, today is alerting consumers and businesses to a major cybersecurity incident that could affect millions of users worldwide. WHAT HAPPENED Attackers hijacked and hid malware inside Avast’s CCleaner application was which was available for download between August 15 – September 12, 2017. Anyone who downloaded the 5.33 version product or updated their existing product during this timeframe became infected. On September 13, 2017, Cisco Talos notified Avast so that they could begin corrective action. At this time the version containing the malware has been removed and is no longer available for download.…

Samsung’s latest flagship phablet, the Galaxy Note 8, is finally available in Kenya. The smartphone was launched earlier today and is available for Ksh 104,999. This is for the base model that you can find in any Samsung branded shop across the country. The Galaxy Note 8 is a very important device for Samsung given the disaster that was the Note 7. The Note 7 was supposed to be its flagship phablet for 2016 but battery issues that caused some units to overheat and even explode forced the company to discontinue the device. I know this happened last year but…

Xiaomi has seen its market share and sales numbers go up steadily for the last couple of years. This has helped it become one of the top smartphone manufacturers in the world. The company is seeing impressive numbers and just last month it managed to ship 10 million phones. This was revealed by the company’s CEO Lei Jun a couple of days ago. This is the first time the company has managed to ship 10 million devices in a single month. Quite impressive for a company that has been around for less than 10 years. September was a particularly good…