Author: Kaluka wanjala

Sony is about to roll out Android 7.0 Nougat to its Xperia X Performance smartphone. The company will roll out the update to those who signed up to be beta testers. The company is already sending out emails to those who have been picked to take part in the Beta Program and you should be expecting one soon if you signed up. Check out the sample email the company is sending to users. Sony has also revealed that the update will be rolled out over-the-air and will be available to beta testers within the next two days. If you are…

isa, the global leader in payments, has partnered with Pan African bank, Ecobank, to roll out mVisa, an innovative mobile payment service, in 33 African markets by year-end. The service will initially launch in the key markets of Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania and signals Visa and Ecobank’s ambitions to successfully enable mVisa across Sub-Saharan Africa. With mVisa consumers can pay for goods and services for everyday expenses from bill payments to groceries and taxi services, by simply scanning a QR code on a smart phone or entering a merchant identification number into their feature phones. mVisa addresses the need for…

Back in August, Facebook released the Lifestage app that is specifically made for teens. Facebook is targeting teens with this app since most of them may want to ditch Facebook for Snapchat claiming that the former is flooded with older people including their parents. Lifestage app was launched exclusively on iOS but the good news is that it has finally landed on Android. Lifestage is inspired by Snapchat and allows users to upload their profile data and share short videos with their contacts. Users can únlock’ their school for them to be able to see what students around them are…

Huawei is set to launch the Mate 9 in a couple of days but this has not stopped the latest leaks of the phone that have surfaced online. These are the first actual images of this phablet as most of the ones we saw before are renders and prototypes that didn’t clearly show us what the phone was about. These first images of the Huawei Mate 9 surfaced online a few hours ago and they show both the front (check out the photo at the top) and back of the phablet. The Mate 9 leaked here is the standard version…

Some people will call it inspiration while others will say it’s downright copying. I am talking about what Facebook is about to do to its main app that will definitely not go well with some people. According to TechCrunch, Facebook is testing new Snapchat-style camera features with a few users before it rolls it out to the general public. The company says, “We may test more variations of these before rolling this out globally.” This comes a few months after Instagram (a company owned by Facebook) launched its own version of Snapchat Stories. Some of the features expected include filter…

With the evolution of digital assistants, you should expect to see them on almost every aspect of our lives. One company that recognizes this is Microsoft and the company is courting Siri with this. Microsoft has just pushed out a new update to Skype for iOS that will make it possible for users to send messages using Apple’s smart assistant, Siri. This update introduces Skype for iOS version 6.27.1. You will also be able to view recent Skype messages and favorites on the Apple Watch again. Previously, Microsoft added the ability to disable Integrated Calling (CallKit) and set notifications ‘on’…

Apple released iOS 10 back in September and said that it was compatible with select devices including the iPhone 5 and newer devices. Less than two months after that, Apple has come out and revealed that iOS 10 is installed in 60% of all compatible devices. Even though this represents the percentage based on compatible devices, it is still a significant number for an OS that has been out for less than two months. 60% represents a 6% rise from the last time Apple released iOS 10 adoption figures a few weeks ago. The rise can be attributed to the…

around for years but is not making as much money as it should. The company announced its Q3 financial earnings a few hours ago reporting $616 million which is not enough for the social media giant. With other tech giants reporting billions of dollars in profits, Twitter knows that it needs to look for ways to make more money. One thing the company is going to do is cut 9% of its workforce, this is about 350 employees. Earlier this week, we told you that Twitter had plans to fire 8% of its staff but it looks like we were…

When reports about the Galaxy Note 7 catching fire started surfacing, we all knew that Samsung was not going to have any good news when reporting its financial results for that quarter. We knew that people were not going to buy the Note 7 compared to previous devices from the company and this means low profits. A few weeks after that, Samsung stopped producing the Note 7 because of the issue and that is when it was clear that Samsung was having one of the worst periods we have seen any company go through recently. Well, we were right, Samsung…

Snapchat is one of the fastest growing social networking platforms out there. The platform has been around for a short while but is rivaling sites such as Twitter that is having a hard time attracting new users. Snapchat on the other hand is the platform most millennials are joining and this has led to exponential growth in both the total number of users signing up and those actively using the site. With many people flocking to use the platform, Snapchat is a very valuable company. According to a report by the Bloomberg, Snapchat will be looking to raise about $4…