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…
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…
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…
Microsoft to help 25 million people worldwide acquire new digital skills needed for the COVID-19 economy
July 2, 2020
Microsoft has announced a new global skills initiative aimed at bringing more digital skills to 25 million people worldwide by the end of the year. The announcement comes in response to the global economic crisis…
The OPPO A52 and W11 Wireless Earphones Officially Launched in Kenya
July 2, 2020
OPPO has today launched yet another smartphone in Kenya. This new smartphone is the OPPO A52 that is currently available on Jumia for Ksh 24,999. At this price the phone competes directly with the recently…
WhatsApp Update Lets Users Add New Contacts Using QR Codes
July 2, 2020
WhatsApp is introducing a number of features some of which have been available to those beta testing its apps. These features will roll out to users over the next few weeks so be on the…
ShowMax Axes Live News Streaming from Its Platform
July 1, 2020
As the current pandemic forced most people to stay indoors, streaming services like ShowMax had to find new ways to get people to use their platforms. The company introduced a Live News streaming segment on…