Author: Kaluka wanjala

Twitter is an awesome tool but its 140-character limit can prevent you from communicating clearly what you intended to. 140-character limit has sort of become Twitter’s signature look and this means that it is here to stay as long as Twitter is around. Even though the character limit is here to stay, Twitter has been making some changes that will ensure it stays there but does not affect how people use the site. The latest change that Twitter is implementing has to do with the usernames. The company says that these will not be counted as part of the 140…

In a push to further drive digital transformation and encourage the adoption of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, software multinational, Oracle, has reiterated its committment to assist corporates and small and medium organisations in their digital transformation journey. Speaking at the Oracle Africa Digital day, Abdul Rahman Al Thehaiban, Oracle Senior Vice President – Technology for Middle East and Africa said Africa is a priority market for Oracle and we are committed to support Africa’s Industry 4.0 preparedness with our latest Cloud solutions. “With total cloud revenues, including IaaS reaching US$1.2 billion in our Q3 of the 2017 fiscal…

MYDAWA, a revolutionary e-health solution has officially launched into the Kenyan market. The technology based service makes it possible for consumers to purchase high quality healthcare, fitness and wellness products on their mobile phones. The platform, a first of its kind globally to provide an end to end solution with personalized authentication, offers customers the confidence of purchasing quality medicine in a reliable, convenient and secure way by enabling them to purchase authentic products. Its success would make MYDAWA a Kenyan led ‘Uber’ of health products. Investment MYDAWA is a Kenyan led solution to a global challenge. The service has…

Last month, Google officially released Android Wear 2.0. The LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style were the first smartwatches to be launched with this new OS preinstalled. Given that not many smartwatches are in the pipeline this year, Google had to make sure that this OS could be installed on older smartwatches running Android Wear 1.0. One of the smartwatches that was in line to get the update was the Huawei Watch. The Huawei Watch was one of the decent smartwatches that came with the first edition of Android Wear and it was good to see that it was…

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…