Author: Kaluka wanjala

More than 7 million pieces of information have been shared through the SMS social network WeFarm, just one year after launching. WeFarm launched in Kenya in 2015. There are now in excess of 51,000 small-scale farmers in Kenya, Uganda and Peru using the SMS service to access information, without internet access. Farmers can share information regarding crops, animal husbandry, climate change, and entrepreneurship on the social network. The P2P service has proved hugely popular with 65% of users active monthly. CEO and founder Kenny Ewan said “7 million pieces of information in one year proves that we have created something very popular…

Xiaomi is set to officially launch its products in the country this week. The company through its distributor, Mobile in Africa, will finally bring its smartphones into the country. We have been hearing about Xiaomi’s entry into Africa for over six months now and the company even took its products to South Africa and Nigeria. In Kenya there have been legal issues between the brand and Mi-Phone in regards to the ‘Mi’ name. Mobile in Africa will be bringing the Xiaomi Redmi 2 PRO and Redmi Note 2 as the first products into the country. These products are supposed to…

Huawei is getting ready to launch its 2016 flagship smartphone, the P9. We have been hearing a lot about this phone the last 6 weeks or so but Huawei has not come forward to officially reveal to us if any of the leaked specs and features are true. All the company has done is so far is tease some of the features we should expect when the phone is launched. One unique thing we have heard about the Huawei P9 is that it will have a dual camera setup at the back. We have heard that this camera will be…

Equitel customers now can talk and chat both offline and online for longer with a 25% bonus airtime for the first 3 top ups they make. The bonus airtime, which is applicable to any amount of airtime bought, can be used to make calls and send SMSs across all networks and to also browse the internet. The new promotion has been running from February 15th 2016, will continue till May 15th 2016. It adds onto the existing 10percent rebate onto one’s bank account for every amount of airtime bought and now enables Equitel subscribers to not only save greatly but…

As other countries are talking about rolling out 5G in their countries, here in Kenya you can only get 4G connectivity through Safaricom. The other industry players are still stuck on 3G. Even as manufacturers are trying to bring their 4G enabled smartphones into the country, 4G coverage is still very low. If Airtel is your network provider, you may be happy to know that you will not remain on 3G for long. According to Techweez Airtel will be ready to implement 4G LTE in Kenya by the end of this year. Airtel has been upgrading its network for a…

Google will be ending support for its Wallet card starting from June 30th. The company announced this through its website stating that “After careful consideration, we’ve decided that we’ll no longer support the Wallet Card as of June 30. Moving forward, we want to focus on making it easier than ever to send and receive money with the Google Wallet app.” The physical Google wallet card has been in use in some markets but it looks like Google is finally killing it off as it wants to get people to use the Wallet app. Google went ahead to say that…

A few weeks ago, Oppo unveiled one of its best camera phones yet, the Oppo R9 and R9 Plus. Both these phones were launched in China and we were not sure if they would be available for the international markets. If you have been waiting for the international versions of either the R9 or R9 Plus, you may be happy to know that Oppo will be launching them next week. Oppo will be taking the R9 and R9 to India first as from April 5. The company has already sent out media invites to an even it has next week…

Microsoft Office is the most popular productivity suite you can find on the market. Almost everyone has at some point in their lives tried any one of the many different applications under the Microsoft Office family. According to Microsoft, there are now over 1.2 billion people using Office around the world. The company announced this yesterday at its annual Build Conference. 1.2 billion is a very huge number and this means that almost 2 out of every 7 people use Microsoft Office. Microsoft went ahead to reveal that the 1.2 billion Office users spend on average 3-4 hours every day…

Samsung has today launched the Galaxy J3 in India. The Galaxy J series consists of entry and mid-range smartphones from Samsung targeting developing and emerging markets. The Galaxy J3 joins some of Samsung’s existing entry level devices such as the Galaxy J1, J1 ace, J1 Mini and the Galaxy J2. The Galaxy j3 was initially launched last year in China and was available in very few markets then. The Galaxy J3 comes into the market just over two months after the company launched the Galaxy J1 (2016) in Dubai and 3 weeks after it unveiled another cheap variant, the Galaxy…

When Microsoft introduced Windows 10 to the world, the company also introduced a new web browser, Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge was meant to support Internet Explorer which was one of the worst browsers on the market. Microsoft has announced that its Edge Web browser will be getting a native ad-blocking support with the next update. The company announced this at this year’s Build 2016 conference. This is a bold move for Microsoft and it’s something I never expected from the company which has been a bit too slow in introducing new features that consumers want. Including native ad-blocking support will…