Author: Kaluka wanjala

A few day ago, Instagram stories was unveiled to take on Snapchat. Instagram stories allows users to upload photos and videos of their day for their followers to see. The photos and videos are then added to an album that people can watch continuously as a mini movie, just like Snapchat stories, Instagram stories disappear after 24 hours. At the moment, Instagram stories can only be viewed when using its official apps, those on Instagram on the web have not been so lucky until now. If you use Instagram on the web and want to see the stories, you are…

A few weeks ago, Twitter added the night mode feature to its official app for Android. With this feature, you can use the app at night or in an area where the lighting is not so good and not worry about the screen’s brightness hurting your eyes. When turned on, it turns your display from the white background to a deep navy tone while turning all the text to white. This makes it easier for you to look at your screen if you are in a dark room. When Twitter rolled out the feature to its Android app, it did…

With stiff competition in the smartphone market, manufacturers have to do all they can to differentiate their products from those offered by competitors. LeEco is one company that is working hard to ensure it is always the first to bring some features into the smartphone space. Four months ago, the company unveiled the LeEco Le Max 2 which was the first smartphone with 6GB of RAM. 6GB of RAM on smartphones is still considered massive but you have to know that the company is targeting Chinese consumers with this and they tend to go for beefier devices over standard ones.…

If you are in Nairobi, you have probably heard about Uber and Little (previously Little Cab). These are the two popular Taxi hailing apps in the city. Uber has been in Nairobi since January 2015 but Little has been around for a little over a month. Little was previously known as ‘Little Cab’ but had to change its name to just ‘Little’ since they forgot to trademark the name ‘Little Cab’ and someone went ahead and did that and now they can’t use the name. If you regularly use a cab, you probably aren’t sure which app (between Uber and…

When Craft Silicon, in partnership with Safaricom, launched Little Cab, we praised the move as it was seen as the only taxi hailing app that can take on Uber in Kenya. In all fairness, Craft Silicon has all that is needed to take on Uber but they made a big mistake when they forgot to trademark the name ‘Little Cab’. Yes, you read that right, they forgot to trademark the name and some clever guy went and did that for them. This means that Crafts Silicon cannot use the name ‘Little Cab’ and is now just ‘Little’. According to TechWeez,…

Facebook has been changing the newsfeed a lot the last couple of months as it tries to give its users the best experience possible. We have documented these changes and the most recent one has to do limiting the number of clickbait articles that are shared on the newsfeed. The company implemented these changes recently so it may take some time before we can see any changes. Facebook isn’t done with the changes just yet and it has announced that it is adjusting the newsfeed again and this time its aim is to make sure you see relevant and informative…

As Africa intensifies its role as a leader in ICT, Ericsson continues to stimulate creativity, showcase talent and enable networking opportunities for tech entrepreneurs in Africa by powering the second edition of the AHUB at AfricaCom open in parallel with the AfricaCom conference. The 3 day conference will take place from 15- 17 November 2016 in Cape Town, one of South Africa’s fastest growing metros. It is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to take their startups to the next level and for investors to make a meaningful contribution towards economic development. This initiative extends Ericsson’s commitment to driving the Networked Society…

A few days ago, Samsung officially unveiled its 2016 flagship phablet, the Galaxy Note 7. The standard Galaxy Note 7 comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage space. This is enough for most people but Samsung has revealed it has an even beefier variant on the way. We heard about this variant a few months ago but when the Note 7 was launched, we didn’t hear about it and thought that it does not exist. DJ Koh, the head of Samsung Mobile, has confirmed that there is a Galaxy Note 7 variant with 6GB of RAM and…

Yesterday we showed you the first renders of LG’s next smartphone, the V20. These were not official renders but they were made from information obtained from sources inside the company so they are very accurate. LG has not revealed any specs of the V20 until now. The company has confirmed that it will come with a feature it calls Quad DAC (digital to analogue converter). This helps in improving audio quality streaming into your ears, something we are not used to seeing on smartphones. The company is looking for the small but significant features that it can use to differentiate…

Huawei plans to launch one more flagship device before the end of the year. This device, the Huawei Mate 9, will be part of the company’s flagship phablet line and we expect to see it in the next few weeks. Huawei has not revealed anything about the Mate 9 but the device has just shown up on the GFX Bench database revealing some of the specs it comes with. With the listing on GFX Bench database, we are sure that Huawei is ready to unveil the Mate 9 phablet. When a device shows up in benchmarking sites such as GFX…