Author: Kaluka wanjala

Back in January, we told you that LG has plans to launch two new smartwatches sometime this month. These will be the first smartwatches to come with Android Wear 2.0 and will be released in partnership with Google, we still don’t know what this partnership entails but this is not what we are interested in knowing right now. What we are interested in knowing right now are the specifications you should expect to see on this smartwatch. This smartwatch, the LG Watch Sport, will be released later this week together with another model, the LG Watch Style. Even before the…

Today, Microsoft and GrowthAfrica announced their partnership to launch the #Insiders4Good East Africa Fellowship, which seeks to support emerging entrepreneurs as they turn their business ideas into reality and scale. This initiative is a new partnership between Microsoft and GrowthAfrica, designed to empower East African entrepreneurs with mentorship and technology, and amplify their voice through the Windows Insider Program, a global community of millions of Windows users using tech to make a lasting impact upon the world. The #Insiders4Good East Africa Fellowship will be awarded to 25 entrepreneurs from Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda who have innovative social business ideas…

The Sony Xperia brand has not done so well the last couple of years and we rarely see these devices out in the world. Sony is not where it was in terms of market share as the smartphone market is flooded with all kinds of players that have eaten up its share. With that said, the company has just reported its Q4 2016 financial results and as expected, the it saw a decline in the number of devices it shipped during that period. To be exact, Sony shipped 5.1 million smartphones during the three-month period ending December 2016. This is…

With the theme, Building for Africa, NexTech Africa is demonstrating in action Microsoft’s commitment to support and empower innately African creativity and innovation. The organisation’s flagship Africa technology event is taking place on 2 and 3 February in Nairobi, Kenya. “As a company, we really want to hear from local innovators, businesses and technologists on how they view the future of technology in Africa, and what they need to help them leverage the myriad of opportunities,” says Kunle Awosika, Country Manager of Microsoft Kenya. The goal of NexTech, of which this is the third instalment, is to help Microsoft play…

Twitter has just unveiled its new explore tab that borrows a few things from Instagram. The social networking site unveiled this tab a couple of days ago to select users around the world. This tab makes it easier for people to easily keep up with what is happening outside their timeline. Twitter explore brings together some of the company’s existing features including search, trends, and Moments under one roof. With this new explore tab, you get the Moments, search and trends tabs in one area. This is similar to what you get on Instagram where the search and suggested content…

With MWC 2017 just a few weeks away, we are kind of getting a picture of what to expect when the global event begins later this month. One device that we will be seeing at the event will be the Galaxy Tab S3, the company’s next flagship tablet. We were to see this tablet last year but things did not go as planned probably because of the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco that saw the company halt production and sale of the phablet. With that, it would not have been wise for the company to launch the tablet as its name…

We are about 4 weeks away till we see the 2017 flagship from Huawei, the P10. The Huawei P9 was an amazing device and the company has to make sure it can top its success in terms of features and sales. We have already reviewed the P9 which you can check out here. Back to the P10, We have seen a couple of specs Huawei plans to include in the phone but they do not reveal much about it. Some of the things we have heard about the P10 is that it will have a refined design, a QHD display…

Airtel is one of the biggest telecommunication companies in the world but the company has not had a smooth ride in Africa, especially in Kenya. The company has been struggling to compete with Safaricom but the latter has always ahead and made billions of shillings in profit while Airtel swims in losses. Even with the loses the company has recorded over the years, it is still committed and has no plans of exiting the African market. There have been reports recently that indicated that the company may leave the African market to concentrate on markets where it is making money.…

Microsoft seems to be having a hard time attracting new users to its Office 365 platform if the latest report by IT World is to be believed. The report reveals that new subscriptions to Office 365 dropped by 62% in 2016 compared to 2015. The report said, “In each of the last three quarters, Office 365 grew by about 900,000 subscribers – the smallest quarterly increase since early 2014.” According to Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella, the total subscriptions for the office software had reached just under 25 million. He also went ahead to say that in 2016, only 4.3 million…

BlackBerry is one of the well-known smartphone manufacturers out there. Even with that said, the company has struggled in this space as competition from other established brands have pushed BlackBerry OS out of the market. The company acknowledged this and that is why it decided to embrace Android to try and see if it can regain its lost market share. We have already seen a couple of Android devices from the company and more will be released this year. We already know the company plans to unveil BlackBerry Mercury at MWC 2017 (Mobile World Congress) next month but this will…