Telkom Announces Availability of its Balloon-Powered Internet in Kenya
July 8, 2020
For close to two years, Telkom Kenya has been working with a company called Loon to help it take high speed internet to rural parts of the country. Loon uses balloons 20 kilometers above earth…
Xiaomi Launches the Redmi Note 9 Pro, Redmi Note 9 and Mi Note 10 Lite in Kenya
July 7, 2020
Xiaomi has officially unveiled the Redmi Note 9 Pro, Redmi Note 9 and Mi Note 10 Lite smartphones in Kenya. The three devices were launched in Kenya last week and you can now get them…
Dark theme now available for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on Android
July 7, 2020
Google’s Microsoft Office rival apps are finally going dark on Android. In a blog post, the company announced that it rolling out a dark theme to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides on Android. The reasons…
ShowMax Pro Launch Adds All Premier League and Lives Sports to the Streaming Service
July 7, 2020
About a week ago, we told you that ShowMax had decided to axe the Live news streaming service from its platform. The streaming service said that reason for this was that they were given access…
CBK Rejects Safaricom’s Bid to cap free M-Pesa transactions to Only Five
July 7, 2020
Back in March as the effects of the current pandemic were being felt, Safaricom and the other industry players had talks with the central Bank of Kenya to waive the charges for all transactions below…
Google Plus is Officially Dead, Welcome Google Currents
July 7, 2020
Google Plus, which was shut down to consumers in 2019 over a security lapse and in part over “low usage and engagement” is now dead officially. Since the shutdown, Google+ has continued to provide enterprises…
Microsoft’s OneDrive Raises File Upload Limit to 100GB
July 6, 2020
Microsoft is making some changes to OneDrive and the key one is the raising of the upload file size limit from the current one of 15GB to 100GB. This limit has been raised for Microsoft…
Instagram Expands Reels to India after TikTok ban
July 6, 2020
Facebook is now in India with its TikTok competitor Reels. It’s quite a timing after India took a hard stance to ban TikTok along with other 58 Chinese apps citing privacy concerns. After its debut…
Huawei to Launch EMUI 11 in Q3 2020
July 6, 2020
As you already know Android 11 is currently in public beta. To run in tow with Google’s Android 11 roadmap, other smartphone companies who prefer to develop skins on top of it are also geared…