Rwanda Kicks Off Construction of its Smart City Project, Kigali Innovation City
September 12, 2024
The Government of Rwanda, Africa50, and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), have officially broken ground on the construction of the 61-hectare smart city development dubbed Kigali Innovation City. This is happening…
LG Showcases Next-Gen Gaming with Groundbreaking webOS Cloud Tech at PAX West
September 12, 2024
LG showcased its gaming technologies on its webOS platform at PAX West, the largest gaming event in the United States. Visitors at the Seattle convention explored LG’s webOS Gaming capabilities on LG smart devices, including…
Chinese State-Sponsored Espionage Expands in Southeast Asia
September 12, 2024
Sophos has released its report, “Crimson Palace: New Tools, Tactics, Targets,” which details the latest developments in a nearly two-year long Chinese cyberespionage campaign in Southeast Asia. Sophos X-Ops first reported on what they named…
Samsung 2024 Neo QLED TVs Receive First-Ever True Cinema Black and HDR Brightness Accuracy Certifications
September 11, 2024
The Samsung 2024 Neo QLED and QLED lineup have recieved both the True Cinema Black and HDR Brightness Accuracy certifications from Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker (VDE), a leading German electrical engineering certification institute. “Technology continues to…
Liquid Expands High-Speed Fibre Connectivity Across Kenya-Uganda Corridor
September 11, 2024
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has announced the upgrade of its 1,300km fibre route connecting Mombasa to Busia on the Ugandan border, bringing additional multi-terabit capacity and additional resilience to the region. See: Liquid Intelligent Technologies Launches…
Safaricom Awarded a Payment Facilitator Certificate by Visa
September 11, 2024
Visa has awarded Safaricom a payment facilitator certificate, marking a significant milestone in its ongoing partnership with the Telco. This partnership will enhance Safaricom’s merchant ecosystem by diversifying payment acceptance modes through the introduction of…
Banking in the Eyes of the Next Generation Consumer
September 11, 2024
By Moses Muthui, Consumer Banking Director, Absa Bank Kenya Back in the early 2000s, paying my university fees meant dressing up and making a trip to the bank to deposit the money in person, and…
Understanding MediaTek Smartphone Processors
September 11, 2024
If you have used an Android smartphone over the last 10 years, you may have used one powered by a MediaTek processor. It is one of the handful smartphone processors we see on most smartphones….
Samsung One UI 6.1.1 Expands Latest Galaxy AI Features to Even More Users Around the World
September 10, 2024
Samsung has announced the expansion of One UI 6.1.1, which will bring the latest Galaxy AI features to more Galaxy devices through a new update. With the rollout beginning in September, the update will extend the…