Author: Kaluka wanjala

Every year for the last four years, the Bloggers Association on Kenya has embarked on an annual journey that culminates in the awarding of Kenyan bloggers. This is the journey that sees the presentation of the Kenyan Blog Awards. It is with pleasure that we announce the launch of the 5th Kenyan Blog Awards. Going by tradition, this also coincides with the official opening of the submission phase. Thereafter judges will decide the best 5 in each category before the public votes for their best in each category. This year, one new category, the Best Religious/Spirituality blog, has been added to…

Samsung is one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers out there and this has been the case for years now. The company had a profitable 2015 in both sales of actual devices and revenue. The company just announced earnings guidance for the last quarter (Q4) of 2015. These show that the company managed to record operating profit of around $5.08 billion for this quarter. This is a rise of 15% from the same period in 2014 (Q4). Compared to the previous quarter (Q3 of 2015), the company’s profit went down by 18%. This is quite a drop and represents a slowdown…

HTC is one of the few companies that actually makes good smartphones in terms of design and performance. Even with this, HTC is still struggling with sales and last year the company saw its profits drop by 35%. The company revealed this as it released its financial report for 2015. Revenue stood at $3.65 billion which is a significant drop from the $5.64 billion figure recorded in 2014. Check out the performance in 2015 indicated below. As the year went to a close, HTC recorded positive revenue figures and in November managed to reach a six-month high in November. The…

Facebook is undoubtedly the leader when it comes to social networking. The site has been growing steadily in terms of user base the last couple of years and does not seem to be slowing down. It’s messaging platform, Facebook messenger has also seen impressive growth and now has over 800 million users globally. This is a growth of 100 million users from June last year (2015) when the platform crossed the 700 million mark. This represents a slight growth from August 2014 when the platform crossed the 500 million mark. This steady growth shows that the platform is still attractive…

Back in August last year (2015) we told you about Lenovo’s and Motorola’s partnership that would see the two merge operations going forward. It looks like the two have finally come to an agreement and Lenovo will own Motorola going forward. Read More: Motorola Plans To Absorb Lenovo Mobile Entirely With this acquisition, the Motorola name will disappear and all future devices from the company will trade under the ‘Moto’ brand. Confirming this, Lenovo said, “Motorola Mobility continues to exist as a Lenovo company and is the engineering and design engine for all of our mobile products. However, for our…

Last year, BlackBerry released its first Android powered smartphone, the BlackBerry Priv. The company said that this was a test product to see how the market reacts and if things go as planned, it would consider more Android powered devices. Reception was good and we even heard rumors that the company was working on a second Android device to join the Priv. Read More: BlackBerry Is Reportedly Working On Yet another Android Smartphone At CES 2016, BlackBerry’s CEO, John Chen, sort of confirmed that a second android device is coming this year. He went ahead to reveal that the company…

Huawei unveiled its latest phablet, the Mate 8, late last year in November but availability was limited to china only and we did not get to see the international version till two days ago. Huawei took the stage at CES 2016 to launch this phone to the international audience and confirmed that it will be available in most markets starting in March this year. The Mate 8 went on sale in China last year and has so far managed to sale over 1 million units. This was confirmed by the company’s CEO Yu Chengdong who revealed the sales figures yesterday.…

The latest Android distribution numbers are out and they have just confirmed that Android Marshmallow is not very popular as of now. Android marshmallow was officially rolled out by Google last year and most of the major manufacturers are still rolling it out to some of their most recent devices. As of now, Android Marshmallow is only installed in just 0.7% of all devices available on the market. This is a slight bump from the 0.5% figure recorded about a month ago. With new devices released in 2016 coming with Marshmallow and manufacturers updating their existing ones, this number may…

CES 2016 has officially kicked off and Huawei is one of the big manufacturers to showcase its most recent device. The company unveiled the Huawei Mate 8 that we have been hearing of since November last year. The Mate 8 is supposed to replace the Mate 7 that has been around for a while. Most of the specs of the Huawei Mate 8 are what we have seen before from the leaks we have been seeing so far. The phablet is made from aerospace-grade aluminium and 2.5D curved diamond cut glass giving is a very premium look and feel. It…

Yesterday, internet streaming media service provider, Netflix, announced that it was expanding its services to Africa and will be available in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria. These are just the three out of the 130 countries the company is expanding its services to. This surprise announcement was made by the company’s CEO Reed Hastings at CES 2016. He said, “Today you are witnessing the birth of a new global Internet TV network,” said Hastings. “With this launch, consumers around the world — from Singapore to St. Petersburg, from San Francisco to Sao Paulo — will be able to enjoy TV…