Author: Kaluka wanjala

Last night, Samsung officially unveiled its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+. These devices will officially go on sale in select markets as from April 20. Here in Kenya, Samsung plans to launch them officially on the 5th of May. The company revealed this last night at the Unpacked 2017 livestreaming event it had at the Two Rivers Mall. Samsung Kenya is yet to confirm the retail price of these two phones when it launches them locally. Internationally, the Galaxy S8 will be available for €699 (approximately Ksh 77,000) while the S8+ will be available for €799 (approximately…

Samsung has finally unveiled its 2017 flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. By the time these two devices were launched, we already knew everything about them from the leaks that have been circulating online the last couple of months. Even with that, it was finally good to see these two phones. For Samsung, these devices are really important since the Galaxy Note 7 phablet that it launched in late 2017 was a disaster. This means that Samsung is going to invest all it has on these two devices this year since the Galaxy Note 7 is not on…

The Huawei Mate 9 was launched back in 2016 and is currently the company’s flagship phablet.  This review would have gone up back in January but I decided to publish it after the Huawei P10 was unveiled to give you guys an idea of what it has to offer and to help you decide if you should wait for the P10 to be available in the country or go with it. The Huawei Mate 9 is available in Kenya from as low as Ksh 60,000 on Jumia, the price varies depending on where you get the phone. The main selling…

Safaricom has today announced a number of initiatives that seek to further increase the convenience of M-PESA as it continues to extend the gains of mobile money ten years after its launch in Kenya. From next week, Safaricom will implement a 50% tariff reduction for all Lipa Na M-PESA Buy Goods merchant fees. Under this new Lipa Na M-PESA tariff, merchants will be charged a maximum of 0.5% of the transaction amount, down from the previous maximum of 1%. In addition, Lipa na M-PESA merchants will charged a flat fee of Sh200, for any payments above Sh40,000. “We trust that this…

We have some good news to all you iOS users out there. Apple has just released iOS 10.3 for your iPad, iPod touch, and the iPhone. This update is available for all devices that can run iOS 10. The include the iPhone 5 and newer devices, the iPad mini and all newer versions, the fourth-generation iPad and later versions, the iPad Mini and later versions, the iPad Pro and the 6th generation iPod Touch. iOS 10.3 brings with it some notable changes. One such change implemented in this update is designed to make it easier for users to find the…

The Direct Pay Online Group, (DPO Group) in partnership with Visa, announced today an innovative partnership with the Faculty of Information Technology at Strathmore University to provide a much needed e-commerce educational series to help support a 21st century workforce in Africa.  The initiative, ‘10×10’, provides a series of workshops which will provide free skills development in e-commerce and online payments, enabling innovation and development in this arena. The workshops are designed to provide the students with the skills to build an e-shop and connect it to the online payments solution, for successful e-commerce environments.  The DPO Group and Visa…

For the handful of you that are using Google Duo, you may be happy to know that an update is coming your way very soon. The update will allow users to make audio-only calls to their contacts through the app. Google announced last week that this feature was coming to the app anytime soon and it is good to finally see it’s here. Google Duo is a voice calling app by the tech giant that has not been around for long. The app is meant to compete with services such as Skype that have dominated this space for years. The…

A couple of days ago, Google Maps was updated to include a live location sharing option. this means that you could share your location in real-time with your contacts. Even though this feature is available to select users, Facebook is also rolling out a similar feature to its Messenger platform. Facebook Messenger’s Live location sharing option works exactly the same way as Google’s. It allows you to share your live location with your contacts. When you share this, the contacts you select will see your exact location on a map for up to an hour. You can use this in…

Cortana is one of the few useful voice-based assistants available to Android users. With that said, Microsoft wants to ensure Cortana stays relevant and useful. Earlier this month, Microsoft released an update that made it possible to get Cortana on the lock screen on Android smartphones. This was a neat feature that allowed users to swipe and see what their day was looking like directly from the lock screen. This is not the only thing Microsoft will be adding to Cortana, the company says users can now interact with cortana from the lock screen. Microsoft says this is one of…

Who needs words when communicating online anymore? We have seen people using GIFs, memes and emojis at the expense of actual words. Even though some people may disagree, these simplify communication online. Since we decided not to use words when communicating, Facebook wants to make that much easier for us. The social networking giant plans to test a new feature that will let users use GIFs in comments. This feature is not officially available on Facebook but since it is being tested, you may see it from time to time on your end. When available to you, you will see…