Author: Kaluka wanjala

Earlier today, we told you that Uber Kenya is adjusting its rates upwards giving in to the demands of its partner drivers. Uber reduced its rates last year to remain competitive and not lose customers to Safaricom-backed, Little. Uber and Little have been in competition ever since Little got into Kenya with each one trying to convince us that it is the best. Little has been branding itself as a different option that is not just affordable but offers additional features you do not find on the other taxi hailing apps. Some of these include free Wi-Fi on board,  no…

We all know that Twitter is full of bots. Some make the app interesting and useful while other are just annoying. We have never known how many bots are on Twitter till this report by the University Southern California and Indiana University. The report reveals that there are up to 48 million bots on Twitter out of 319 million Twitter accounts. This is a big number and is about 15% of all accounts on the platform. 48 million is almost double the number of bots Twitter reported back in 2014 back when the number of bots on the platform was…

If you have used Uber in Kenya within the last month, you may have heard from the partner drivers that some of them have been on strike. The partner drivers raised a number of issues and one of them was for Uber to raise its rates as the current rates meant that they had to work for longer hours just to make enough money to survive. Uber was quiet about the strike but had indicated that it will look at the demands of the drivers. Well, Uber has considered what the drivers brought forward and will adjust its rates upwards…

Jumia has today unveiled the ‘Jumia Local’ program that will allow Kenyan manufacturers to showcase their ‘Made in Kenya’  products on its website to thousands of customers across the country thus encourage consumption and scalability. This collaboration between local manufacturers and Jumia will see products under this arrangement featured more prominently on the main Jumia platform and promoted through the e-tailer’s marketing channels. Vendors joining the program will enjoy reduced commissions and receive round-the-clock training and support from Jumia’s vendor management team. Sellers can either store their products in Jumia warehouse or drop-ship once an order is made. Speaking today…

Nokia unveiled its first true Android smartphone, the Nokia 6, in January at CES 2017. A month later, the company released two other smartphones, the Nokia 3 and the Nokia 5. The Nokia 3,5 and 6 are mid-range devices from the company but are not the only ones the company plans to release this year. The three smartphones released by Nokia are reasonably priced and are the devices the company is using to get people interested in the brand again. With the three smartphones out of the way, Nokia is believed to be focusing its efforts on two more smartphones.…

If you know anything about Nokia, then you know that the company had some of the best cameras back when most manufacturers were not that crazy about smartphone cameras. This was especially so for its flagship smartphones. Nokia re-entered the smartphone market last month at Mobile World Congress where it announced the global availability of the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 smartphones. None of these phones had Zeiss optics and this led to many people speculating that the company had another device under production with Zeiss optics. This is the camera technology Nokia had on some of its…

The Huawei Watch was one of the first decent smartwatches to hit the market. This smartwatch came with Android Wear 1.0 as its operating system but will soon get updated with Android 2.0. You may or may not know that Google released Android Wear 2.0 last month. After the release of Android Wear 2.0, Huawei came out with new smartwatches, the Huawei Watch 2 and Watch 2 Classic at Mobile World Congress. With the release of these smartwatches, we were not sure Huawei had any plans to push out Android Wear 2.0 update to the original Huawei Watch. We were…

The Tecno Camon series is about to get a new device dubbed the Tecno Camon CX. The Camon CX will be unveiled in Kenya on March 23 to take over from the Camon C9 that was unveiled in 2016. The Camon C9 was a great device that we really loved and you can read all about that in our review using the link below. Read: Tecno Camon C9 Review Now back to the Camon CX, the phone hasn’t been launched officially in Kenya but it is already up for pre-order. If you want to, you can pre-order the phone from…

Security is one of the most important things most users look out for when it comes to online messaging platforms. We have seen platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram reveal that these are important pillars on its platforms. Viber has not been left behind and the company has come out with what it calls “secret chats” to provide extra security and privacy for users. The messaging app already has end-to-end encryption but it says secret chats offers little extra security. We have seen end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp, Telegram and even Facebook Messenger so this option has been available for quite a…

Samsung is getting ready to launch its 2017 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8. We expect to see this phone in the next couple of week or so. We have seen numerous leaks about the device the last few weeks showing us what to expect when the phone is launched. To get people even more excited, Samsung has released the first official TV advert of the Galaxy S8 in South Korea. This is interesting as the phone has not been launched anywhere, official unveiling is later this month before the phone hits retail stores next month. The TV advert sort of…