Author: Kaluka wanjala

Samsung Electronics is planning to tap into the increased penetration of 4G LTE network to boost its market share and further grow its revenues across the East African region in 2016. In Kenya, Samsung said it expects a more robust growth, especially driven by its new 4G range of smartphones. This will grow further once Airtel and Orange roll-out their 4G services, a move that is expected to additionally grow the number of Kenyans switching to fourth generation devices. “Mobile data subscription is growing at a fast pace especially among the millennials. Fast and reliable data will therefore be a…

The Huawei Mate 8 will be launched in Kenya early next week (Tuesday). The company has already sent out media invites to the event that will see the official introduction of this phone into the country. This will be the first Huawei smartphone to be launched in Kenya this year. The Huawei Mate 8 was launched globally last month at CES 2016 and is the latest phablet from the company. It is impressive for Huawei to bring this phablet in Kenya about a month since its global launch. This device comes with some very impressive specs that might get any…

Orange is launching the Entrepreneur Club, a new space for information in French and English devoted to entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East. The website (http://entrepreneurclub.orange) is a source of information for entrepreneurs that puts them in touch with a variety of instruments from Orange that support entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneur Club also provides practical information and tools for company creation. Orange supports start-ups in Africa and the Middle East Entrepreneurs in Africa and the Middle East are contributing to their countries’ development and reputation. Orange collaborates with them on a daily basis by giving them access to quality voice…

Facebook is currently testing a new SMS integration feature for its Android app. This new feature will offer users the chance of messaging their contacts (both on Facebook and their contact lists) very easily without having to move between different apps. This makes it easier and convenient for those who want an app that gets things done without many complications. Facebook tried its luck a few years ago when it allowed users to set Messenger to be their default SMS app but things did not turn out that well. Users did not like it as most of those likely to…

Knowing how the content you put out performs is very important for anyone. You need to know if people are interacting with the content you are putting out or not. For those on Instagram, you may be happy to know that the photo and video sharing site wants to introduce a video view counter to show you how many times a certain vides has been viewed. The company announced through its official blog that this new feature will be rolling out to users in the next few weeks. The video view count will be displayed below the video similar to…

Microsoft has been aggressively trying to get its Android apps to more users on the platform. The company has been working closely with device manufacturers such as Samsung, LG and Sony to strike deals that will see these manufacturers preinstall some of its popular apps on their phones and tablets. Microsoft is not going to bank on these three manufacturers only as that would not make any business sense. The company has gone out of its way to court Acer to see the company pack up some of its apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Skype, OneNote, and OneDrive on…

Twitter is a very popular social networking site but its growth has been stagnant for some time now. As new social sites keep coming up and the existing ones see their user base grow, Twitter has seen slowed growth. For example, Twitter saw its monthly active users remain at 320 million during the third and fourth quarter of 2015. This is not good news for any company and particularly for Twitter which has been having a hard time making money for its investors. The company has been trying to implement new changes over the last one year but it is…

LG will be unveiling its latest flagship smartphone, the LG G5, later this month at the Mobile World Congress (MWC). LG has been very quiet about this smartphone and this is not strange for a manufacturer to do. Even as LG is being quiet, we know that the company is testing this device as it prepares to have it out on February 21. The latest indication that shows that the LG G5 will be an interesting device comes from Geekbench. Through the benchmarking database stats, we have seen the power unit that this phone will come with. They include Android…

In January, we informed you that Samsung had plans to update all its recent devices to Android Marshmallow. We even gave you a roadmap that showed you which devices these are and when they will be getting the update. Read More: All The Recent Flagship Devices from Samsung Will Get Android Marshmallow Update by April This Year For those who own the Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge, you are in luck as Android 6.0 has started rolling out to users of these devices in Europe. With this initial roll out, Samsung is clearly ready to push it out to all Galaxy…

Twitter officially introduced its new timeline yesterday. We had heard that the company planned to roll out this controversial feature that will put the best tweets first. It is quite strange for Twitter to roll it out given that its CEO denied that is was working on such a feature a few days ago. With the CEO denying this, no one expected this feature anytime soon. Well, it looks like the CEO may have duped us as the feature has been rolled out already. This new feature gives Twitter a Facebook-like look and this is what angered most people who…