Author: Kaluka wanjala

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…

When smartwatches first came out, we thought that they will be all over the market within a year or two. This is yet to happen as smartwatches are still not that mainstream and very few people are using them. The main reason for this is smartwatches do not serve a specific purpose that will make people see the need of having them. According to a new report by the IDC, smartwatches are not really selling as many units as they did before. The research firm is reporting that smartwatch shipment dropped by over 50% last quarter (Q3 2016) compared to…

Over the last few months, we have seen a number of photo editing apps but the one that stood out for us is Prisma. The photo editing app changed the way we edit and share edited photos online. With the success of Prisma, we are getting information that Facebook wants a share of the pie but the company will be doing so with video. During an interview at the WSJD Live conference, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer Chris Cox has shown off a prototype of what looks like the same filter technology Prisma currently uses. Unlike Prisma, this feature is made…

After weeks of waiting, BlackBerry has finally unveiled its third Android smartphone, the DTEK60. We have seen so many leaks about this phone that it feels like we knew everything about it before it was officially launched. BlackBerry has been focusing on security with its Android devices including the DTEK50 that is being replaced by the DTEK60. The DTEK60 is also a security oriented device and what differentiates it from the DTEK50 and the Priv is the fingerprint sensor. The fingerprint sensor can be used to unlock the phone as well as make purchases with Android Pay. The phone will…

Back in 2015, WhatsApp rolled out Voice calling to its app on all platforms from Android, iOS, BlackBerry and even Windows Phone. The company did not just stop there as it has now come out with a video calling feature for its Android app. The feature has been spotted by Android Police and is currently rolling out to the beta version of WhatsApp for Android. I have the beta version of the app but I did not get the feature even after updating it today. This means that this feature is not available to all beta testers just yet. For…

Twitter has been struggling a lot the last couple of years. The company has had  difficult time attractive new users to its platform and also it is not that successful in monetizing the same platform since it doesn’t have that many ways to do this, advertisers do not see it as attractive compared to platforms such as Facebook and Instagram Given what I have said above, I was not surprised with the report by the Bloomberg revealing that Twitter is about to lay off about 300 employees. 300 represents about 8% of the company’s work force and this is not…

Back in August, Xiaomi unveiled its first virtual reality headset, the Mi VR Play. We never heard about this virtual reality headset since then and it was clear that Xiaomi wasn’t ready to push it aggressively as it has done with its other devices. Fast forward to October and Xiaomi is back at it again with a new virtual reality headset, the Mi VR. This new VR headset will be compatible with select devices from the company including the Mi 5, Mi 5s Plus and Mi Note 2. The new VR headset looks much better than the first one if…