Author: Kaluka wanjala

By Kunle Awosika In the past year we have witnessed not just the growth of cybercrime, but a proliferation in cyberattacks that is both new and disconcerting. We need to continue to do more to protect and defend our customers around the world. At Microsoft we’re focused on doing precisely that. In addition, we need to call on the world’s governments to implement international rules to protect the civilian use of the internet. Simultaneously, governments need the active assistance of technology companies. A growing problem in need of new solutions 74 percent of the world’s businesses expect to be hacked each…

OnePlus is currently working on its next smartphone, the OnePlus 5 that it will be unveiling very soon. The company has already confirmed the existence of this smartphone and even its CEO has revealed that it will be powered by the Snapdragon 835 processor. OnePlus has always had a different strategy of focusing on just one device every year and putting all it got on that. With the OnePlus 5, the company will be doing exactly that. The company has plans to retire the OnePlus 3T as the OnePlus 5 comes into the market. The company says that there are…

MallforAfrica has opened an office in Nairobi, this follows a growing demand by Kenyans to buy from leading retailers in the UK and US. MallforAfrica is the only e-commerce platform in Africa that provides access to US and UK stores directly. MallforAfrica has over 8.5 billion items for sale from over 150 US and UK stores. Some of the retailers include Amazon, Carters, Fashion Fair Cosmetics, Topshop UK, Barneys, Footlocker, Sports Direct, M&S, Bloomingdale’s, J. Crew, among others. ‘’A growing number of Kenyan consumers  have been ordering goods through our platform and it makes sense for us to set up…

Xiaomi has just shown the world that big smartphones are still worth buying. The company has unveiled the Mi Max 2 that takes over from the Xiaomi Mi Max that was launched in 2016. Just like the first Mi Max, the Mi Max 2 is quite massive with almost every aspect being big, bigger that what you get on a conventional smartphone. The Xiaomi Mi Max 2 has a 6.44 inch display that is quite big by any standard. Besides this size, the phone looks more like an iPhone 7 Plus, a stretched out one. Xiaomi has long been known…

Most people know about Tecno’s smartphones but very few know that the company has a few tablets in its portfolio. The latest one from the company is the Tecno DroiPad 7D that was announced a few days ago and is one of the cheapest tablets in the country available for less than Ksh 10,000. I have had this tablet for a couple of days and here is what I think about it so far. This is the first impressions post that basically looks at the things you should expect from it the first few days of using it. We do…

Not so long ago, Sony introduced a new smartphone category that it called the “Premium standard”. This category was to consist of devices in the $500 price range that the company hoped would attract new customers and help its brand gain some market share. Given that the “premium standard” category hasn’t been that successful, the company is axing it from its line up. The company announced this yesterday at its Investor relations Day saying that it will no longer be making devices in the $500 price range. With this announcement, the company will now focus on the midrange and flagship…

Safaricom has announced Kenya’s first ever telecommunications lab. The first phase of the lab has been put up at the cost of Sh. 200 million and replicates Safaricom’s entire networking including the billing platform, application servers such as M-PESA, Safaricom’s cloud, microwave, 2G, 3G and 4G networks in a single room. Safaricom has collaborated with a number of industry players including Cisco, Huawei, Nokia and others who have donated equipment and expertise to the lab, which is located at the firm’s headquarters in Nairobi. Safaricom’s more than 27 million customers will benefit from this investment, which will see fast tracking…

Most companies ‘borrow’ a few ideas from the competitors as they grow. I don’t necessarily think this is a bad thing as long as the competitor has an innovative product or service that both companies can implement in their own way. With that said, I think it gets to a point when one company blatantly copies everything the other company does. Instagram has been copying what Snapchat does the last couple of months as a way to attract Snapchat’s user base as well as positioning itself as the go to social networking site for new users. The Facebook owned company…

For the past few weeks, Instagram has been making some changes to its platform that threaten the very existence of Snapchat. These changes may not necessarily affect Snapchat right now but will surely affect it going forward. This is why Snapchat has to keep innovating going forward. Snapchat has just announced new features that it expects will help it stay ahead of competition. Custom Stories are just some of the new changes the company has implemented on its platform. Users will be able to create Custom Stories with any of their friends as these stories allow groups of people to…

Instagram has made some changes to its platform but very few people noticed. Last week, the company reduced the options to cross post content to other social media platforms with no warning or heads up. Right now, you can only share content to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. If you are like many people, you probably don’t know which other platforms have been removed. Before you get confused, Foursquare Swarm and Flickr are the two platforms that have been trimmed from the sharing options. I bet you never noticed they were there did you?. Foursquare Swarm allows users to earn points…