Author: Kaluka wanjala

Its seems like every smartphone manufacture will release a smartwatch sometime in the future. We have seen smartwatches from some big name manufacturers from Samsung, Huawei, Motorola and even Apple. One company that has not yet embraced smartwatches is Xiaomi. The company already has fitness bands but had never said that it would venture into smartwatches. Rumors about Xiaomi’s smartwatch surfaced about a year ago but nothing came out of that and we all forgot about that. All we saw on the market were fitness bands from the company that are more affordable when compared to what other top manufactures…

Google has just updated its mobile apps to give them a modern, simple and clean format. The company announced this two days ago through its official blog post saying that this new design will help people using its apps discover and enjoy more. The update has been rolled out to YouTube apps for both Android and iOS. This new update also brings a newer and better recommendation system. The company said, “This isn’t just a new coat of paint on the same old Home—we’ve coupled a fresh design with more relevant personalized recommendations that make it easier to discover videos…

Today at Hannover Messe, the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology, Ericsson announced the IoT Accelerator. IoT Accelerator combines horizontal, feature-rich IoT platforms with Ericsson’s services and a marketplace where customers from sectors such as public safety, utilities, transport and smart cities can connect with partners and monetize their solutions. IoT Accelerator will be offered as a service to enable customers to overcome the barriers of cost and complexity and rapidly develop and deploy new IoT solutions. The IoT platforms’ capabilities include data management, billing, device management, connectivity services and analytics. Planned expansion modules include a self-service portal, developer…

The Xiaomi Mi band is one of the affordable fitness bands you can find on the market. With that said, Xiaomi is about to give its customers a much better choice as the company is working on the next generation Mi Band that it will be unveiling soon. We know that Xiaomi has confirmed that it will be releasing MIUI 8 update on May 10 alongside new hardware but the company did not go into the specifics about that. Rumors are suggesting the Xiaomi will be unveiling its new phablet the Mi Max and the Mi Band 2. The company…

With the growth in mobile devices, decreasing bandwidth costs and more international vendors and local service providers offering a variety of new services, Africa is cloud computing’s next great frontier. In 2013, 48% of SMEs in Kenya were using cloud, and new analysis from Frost & Sullivan reveals that the overall cloud computing market in South Africa and Kenya will reach revenues of US$288 million in 2018. SME’s, which are estimated to contribute 45% to Kenya’s economy, are well positioned to benefit from the cloud because of its low cost, but many have been slow to implement this new technology. So…

Earlier this year, Instagram said that it will be implementing a number of changes to its platform throughout this year. The company did not say what these changes are but we know that the changes are meant to keep users engaged and as the photos sharing app looks for new ways to attract advertisers. We have seen some of these changes already and the last one was implemented late last month when Instagram announced that users can now upload up to 60 second videos on its platform.  You can find some other things related to Instagram here. Back to the…

The Bloggers Association of Kenya has announced that Safaricom will be the title sponsors of the BAKE Awards 2016.  Safaricom joins a few other companies that will be sponsoring the 2016 edition of the Awards and these include EatOut Kenya, Xpose, Samsung and Coca Cola. The Gala event to announce the 2016 winners will be taking place on 7th May at Radisson Blu Hotel. This is not the first time Safaricom is sponsoring the BAKE Awards as the company did so for three consecutive years in 2012, 2013, 2014, skipped 2015 and is back in 2016. Commenting on this, BAKE…

When BlackBerry decided to release its first Android smartphone, the Priv, not many people knew what to make of that as we had never expected to see BlackBerry venture out of its own OS to embrace Android. Well, BlackBerry proved us wrong and decided to go with Android even as it continued supporting its own OS. Launching an Android phone was not the only thing BlackBerry was to do as the company promised that it was going to support this device with regular updates. Since the BlackBerry Priv was launched with Android Lollipop, we were expecting it to be updated…

A few weeks ago, we told you that Sony had started pushing out Android Marshmallow update to some Xperia devices including the Xperia Z2, Z3, Z3 Dual, and Z3 Compact phones. Missing from this list was the Xperia Z3 tablet and Sony did not say when or if it was to get updated. This angered some people who own the tablet as they felt like the tablet is part of the Xperia Z3 family and should have been updated with the others. If you have the Xperia Z3 tablet, you may be happy to know that you can now update…

Barley a month after unveiling its 2016 flagship, HTC has announced the One S9 smartphone to take care of the upper mid-range market segment. Unlike the HTC 10, the One S9 looks a lot more like the previous HTC models and include features such as the two front facing speakers. The interesting thing about this phone is that we did not see leaks about it and all our attention was towards the HTC 10 and when it was announced, we all forgot about HTC. It is finally good to see HTC refresh its mid-range lineup with a new device. And…