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Social Media
Facebook says it will let UK election candidates run false Ads
In what comes as no surprise, Facebook has said it will allow UK political candidates to run fake ads on…
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News
Jumia Expects Massive Turn Out For November Black Friday Sale
With Black Friday deals looming, expect massive deals from your favorite e-commerce stores. Kenya’s biggest online retailer, Jumia Kenya, is…
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BUSINESS
Google Acquires Wearables Company Fitbit for $2.1 Billion
After some rumors that Google was in talks with Fitbit for a possible purchase, both companies have come clear yesterday…
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CYBER SECURITY
NordVPN Announces Plans to Up its Security following Cyberattack
Following last week’s reports on NordVPN, the company has announced plans to step up its security. The first move is…
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Gadgets
Global Smartphones Shipments increased in Q3, first time in two years
After two years of a continuous slump in sales, the smartphone industry has finally ticked up a little bit. According…
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BUSINESS
Forget the Critics; Facebook Keeps Growing
Despite all the criticism thrown at Facebook, the company keeps going bigger, making ends meet in terms of revenue. The…
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BUSINESS
Samsung records profit in its Mobile Business, thanks to strong Galaxy Note 10 sales
Samsung Electronics announced its quarterly results today, showing growth in revenue quarter-over-quarter. The company recorded a 56% decline in operating…
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BUSINESS
Huawei Ships more phones daily than Sony in an Entire Quarter
Yeah, you read it right; Huawei ships more phones on an average day than Sony sold in an entire quarter.…
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Gadgets
Xiaomi’s Mi Note Line is back – Mi Note 10 To Sport a 108MP Camera
Xiaomi’s Mi Note line, not to be confused with the Redmi Note series, is finally back after a hideous one-year…
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Apps
Netflix is working on a feature that lets you adjust playback speeds
Netflix is working on ways to let you play those boring episodes faster. In a blog post, the company says…
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Social Media
WhatsApp is Suing Infamous Spyware Vendor NSO Group For Allegedly Hacking its Users
WhatsApp has decided to take action against the notorious Israel-based NSO Group, a company well known in the world for…
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BUSINESS
Equitel rolls out a new Riziki Cover bundle with talk time and insurance cover
Still using Equitel? Well, there is a new deal that will make you run for that SIM card if you…
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Gadgets
Apple’s iOS 13.2 Officially Rolling Out With New Privacy Features, Deep Fusion Camera Technology and more
Since the iPhone 11 series launch in September, Apple’s new devices have not disappointed in terms of photography. But there…
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Gadgets
NVIDIA Shield TV Third Generation Goes Official
In the world of Android TV streaming, there are few competitive set-top boxes available. And by competitive, I mean something…
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Gadgets
Apple AirPods Pro Launched With Active Noise Cancellation Going for $249
Apple fans, your beloved company Apple has a new set of AirPods. The new AirPods are called the AirPods Pro…
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Gadgets
TECNO Spark 4 Air Price, Specifications and Availability in Kenya
TECNO Spark series was recently announced in Kenya with two models – Spark 4 and Spark 4 Air. Conventionally, TECNO’s…
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News
New Changes Available on Safaricom | Data Bundles with no Expiry, Free Sim Cards and more
Kenya’s biggest Telco Safaricom, in celebration of its 19th birthday, made a few changes to its operations. See, I’ll go…
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Gadgets
List of Manufacturers To Ship Android 10 To Their Devices This Year
Android 10 Google’s latest Android version officially debuted on September 10. So far, only a handful of devices have been…
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Gadgets
Samsung Announces Exynos 990 SoC – Supports up to 120Hz refresh rates
Yesterday at the Samsung Tech Day 2019, the South Korean tech giant announced a new processor – Exynos 990. Main…
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Gadgets
Oppo A5 2020 Price, Specifications and Availability in Kenya
Apart from Oppo’s upcoming OPPO A9 2020 smartphone, the company also announced a less cheap phone – Oppo A5 2020.…
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BUSINESS
Huawei Hits the 200 Million mark on Smartphone Shipments in 2019
Beginning May, Huawei has not had a good time as a result of the US ban. But that has not…
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News
Oppo A9 2020 Price, Specifications and Availability in Kenya
OPPO Kenya recently unveiled the new OPPO A Series 2020 Kenya. The brand new OPPO A Series 2020, which includes…
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Gadgets
TECNO Spark 4 Price, Specifications and Availability in Kenya
TECNO Spark 4 is the newest entry in Tecno’s affordable Spark series. Here are the full specifications. TECNO Spark 4…
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CYBER SECURITY
Just Googling these Celebrities might get you Hacked
Many people love celeb gossip, and that has also turned out as a sweet spot for hackers to prey on…
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CYBER SECURITY
Popular VPN Service NordVPN Was Hacked
NordVPN one of the popular VPN services that promotes itself as a tool for protecting your online privacy says it…
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Social Media
Twitter is Working on Policy Changes To Combat Deep Fakes
As good as Artificial Intelligence sounds, and actually is, it also comes with its cons. One of the biggest threats…
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Apps
Netflix is working on ways to crack down on password sharing
Sharing your Netflix password is not a new thing. However, that is not just your little secret; the company knows…
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BUSINESS
Huawei in talks with US telco Companies to license its 5G Business
A recent EXCLUSIVE story says Huawei is in early negotiations with US firms to license its 5G business to them.…
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Gadgets
Samsung Galaxy S10/Note 10 Flaw Allows The Phones To Be Unlocked By Any Fingerprint
Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 devices have fallen victim to a fingerprint vulnerability issue. The flaw was first reported…
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Gadgets
Huawei P30 Lite New Edition Available in Kenya Selling at Ksh. 28,499
After announcing the Huawei P30 Lite New Edition back in July, Huawei has started selling the device locally. The major…
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BUSINESS
Huawei Q3’ 19 Results Show The Company is Still Doing Well Despite US Ban
Huawei has been under the limelight since the US ban back in May. Although the US eased up the ban,…
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BUSINESS
Netflix Subscriber Count Hits 158 Million, As Stranger Things 3 Hits New View Record
US streaming giant Netflix recently released its Q3 2019 earnings report, which shows an increase in revenue. The subscriber count…
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Gadgets
TECNO Camon 12 Series Available in Kenya Starting Today
The TECNO Camon 12 series is finally here. After teasing for the device since last month, the TECNO Mobile is…
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News
[Update: Issue Resolved] Airtel Kenya is experiencing service outages
Airtel Kenya has been experiencing network outages since morning. The telco has come publicly at noon today through its different…
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Gadgets
Xiaomi’s MIUI 11 Launched – List of Xiaomi Phones set to receive the update and when
Xiaomi has announced the newest iteration of its Android Skin MIUI 11 today. Part of the latest updates includes minimalistic…
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Gadgets
Google Hardware Event: All the Highlights | Pixel 4, Pixel Buds 2 and More Announced
As planned, the Google Hardware Event went down yesterday in New York. We anticipated many announcements on the company’s hardware…
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Gadgets
Infinix S5 With Punch-Hole Dsplay and Quad Camera Setup Launched
Infinix Mobile has today officially launched the Infinix S5 in India. The S5 follows Infinix S4, which was launched in…
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Gadgets
iPhone SE 2 Will Cost $399, Reports
After reports of the iPhone SE successor surfaced last week, Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has added a few tidbits on…
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Blockchain
Libra Season About to End? Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Mercado Pago Call it Quits
Barely a week after PayPal exited the Libra Association; other U.S payment companies have followed suit. As on Friday 11th,…
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News
More than 3 Million Safaricom Customers Subscribed To The Free YouTube Bundles To Watch #Eliud159
Today was the D-day when Kenya’s renowned Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge was partaking his INEOS 159 Challenge. As promised before,…
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Gadgets
Your Smart TV is Just A Data Collection Machine
Many smart devices that we used in our daily lives are simply data collection machines. On that growing list of…
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Gadgets
Nokia 8.1 is HMD Global’s First Device To Get Android 10
HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones, announced today that they are pushing Android 10 OTA update to Nokia 8.1…
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BUSINESS
Creditinfo is giving free credit reports to its customers in Kenya and Tanzania
Today only, credit information and fintech services provider Creditinfo has announced an offer on credit reports for its customers in…
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Social Media
Facebook Expands its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme To 10 Countries Across Sub-Saharan Africa
After launching its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, and Senegal, Facebook is expanding the program in…
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Gadgets
Rwanda’s Mara Group Has Launched First “Made in Africa” Smartphones
Mara Phones, a subsidiary of Mara Group, recently announced its first Made in Africa phones. At an event held on…
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BUSINESS
Safaricom Has Rebranded M-PESA To Support Eliud Kipchoge’s Challenge
Safaricom has rebranded its M-PESA logo in honor of Eliud Kipchoge in his challenge to become the first-ever athlete to…
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Apps
Call of Duty Mobile Racks up 100million Downloads in one week
Call of Duty Mobile was a much-awaited mobile game by Activision. The game was released last week for both Android…
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Apps
Microsoft’s Your Phone App now supports call routing from Android to PC
Microsoft’s Your Phone app now supports making calls directly from your Windows 10 PC. The new feature is baked inside…
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Social Media
Twitter Admits it Used Phone Numbers Provided For Security To Target Ads
Twitter has come clean stating they have inappropriately used phone numbers that users provided for security purposes (like two-factor authentication)…
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BUSINESS
Cellulant Unveils Tingg, Africa’s first Payments Super app in 8 Countries
Cellulant, a company touted as Africa’s leading financial technology company, has today announced the launch of Tingg. Tingg is an…
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Gadgets
Android Stalking Apps Use Cases Has Risen By a Staggering 373 Percent in 2019
Stalker apps on Android is not a new thing. These apps let individuals spy on other users’ messages, call information,…
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Gadgets
Google, Xiaomi and Huawei Devices Fall Victim of a Zero-Day Flaw
Researchers from Googles’ Elite bug hunting group, Project Zero, have reported the existence of a bug in Pixel, Xiaomi, and…
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Gadgets
Samsung To Compensate Galaxy S4 Owners With $10 For Cheating Benchmark Tests
Last week, Samsung Electronics found itself in trouble for a crime it committed a long time ago. The company agreed…
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Blockchain
PayPal Pulls out of Facebook’s Libra Association
In addition to troubles Facebook has been going through over sceptical regulators around the world, PayPal Holdings Inc. has pulled…
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Gadgets
Samsung Galaxy A70s Price, Specifications and Availability in Kenya
Samsung Galaxy A70s is the latest entry into successor’s devices if the revamped Galaxy A series. Significant improvements from the…
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Gadgets
Apple Reportedly Working on iPhone SE2 Meant To Lure iPhone 6 Owners To Upgrade
iPhone SE was first launched in 2016, primarily meant to meet the needs of users who needed a small pocketable…
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Gadgets
Windows 10X announced; Microsoft’s OS for Dual Screen PCs
Dual-screen PCs are not a strange thing – we have seen several dual-screen PCs pop-up in concept form or even…
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CYBER SECURITY
WhatsApp Glitch Could Allow Hackers To Steal Your Media Files Using GIFs
It is again high time that you should consider updating your WhatsApp. According to a report published by a security…
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Gadgets
Microsoft is back in the smartphone business with a new dual-screen phone
On Wednesday, Microsoft held its Surface Event where we saw the company unveiling several new devices. Mostly, we anticipated Microsoft…
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BUSINESS
Samsung is shutting down its mobile phone factory in China
China being the world’s largest smartphone market, explains why many smartphone companies are camping there with mobile production plants. However,…
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Apps
WhatsApp Working on Self-destructing Messages
The latest WhatsApp beta update brings a new feature that lets messages self-destruct. The tip comes from reliable WhatsApp features…
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Gadgets
Xiaomi RedMi NOTE 8 Pro Price, Specifications and Availability in Kenya
After last year’s Xiaomi’s value champion – Redmi Note 7 Pro – the company has just announced its predecessor, Xiaomi…
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Gadgets
Android 10 Go Edition is coming to these entry-level Nokia devices
After Nokia released the Android 10 Update roadmap, no Entry-level devices running Android Go Edition were in the timeline. But…
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CYBER SECURITY
New Exploit could allow permanent jailbreaking of millions of iPhone devices
Towards the end of last month, Google’s elite bug-hunting team – Project Zero – released a report on malicious website…
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Gadgets
Huawei Continues with Mass production of 5G base stations without US Supplies
It has not been easy for Huawei upon the US trade ban, but the company is having to take the…
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Gadgets
4 Essential Things to do Before Updating your Android Phone
So, Google’s next major Android update is here, and from what we know, the new Android version (Android 10) has…
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Gadgets
Best 2019 Infinix Phones Available in Kenya
Infinix – TECNO and itel’s sister company is for no doubt one of Kenya’s popular smartphone brands. The company has…
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Gadgets
Redmi 8A Specifications, Price and Availability in Kenya
After Redmi 7A, Xiaomi’s sub-brand is back with another device in the Redmi A series. The “Redmi” sub-brand is Xiaomi’s…
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Gadgets
Oppo plans to launch OPPO A9 (2020) in Kenya Soon
Oppo Kenya has revealed that their new A-series device Oppo A9 (2020) is launching in Kenya soon. The latest entry…
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Gadgets
itel S15 and S15 Pro Specifications, Price and Availability in Kenya
itel S15 and S15 Pro are the latest devices in itel Kenya’s portfolio of devices. The two phones are available…
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Apps
Google Pulls down Android Apps overcharging users for basic features
Google Playstore – Android’s official application store has been up for bashing, especially on the security-related side of it. Well,…
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Gadgets
Google Announces Security-focused Android 10 based Go Edition
After the official release of Android 10 – the latest version of Android – earlier this month, Google has announced…
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BUSINESS
Safaricom has sold over 0.6 million Neon Devices in 2019
Safaricom’s Neon smartphones have been on the lower end of the smartphone market in Kenya, owing to their puny pricing…
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News
New Proposed Bill Will Require WhatsApp and Facebook Group Admins To Be Registered with CA
A new Bill headed to Parliament this week could require all Facebook and WhatsApp group administrators to be registered with…
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COLUMNS
KaiOS devices were meant to be cheaper, not until Nokia confirmed otherwise
Feature phones have been so doomed since the first smartphone broke the unimaginable barriers that could have not been possible…
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Gadgets
Are you ready for TECNO Spark 4? Launching Soon in Kenya
Yet another new device from TECNO in the Kenyan market. TECNO has announced plans of launching a new successor in…
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News
Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps over the Cambridge Analytica Scandal
As an update to the on-going crackdown on apps with access to user info, Facebook has suspended tens of thousands…
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CYBER SECURITY
Remove these VPN apps from your Android phone immediately
By now, you are pretty much familiar with the pattern. Google keeps fighting malicious actors on the Playstore, but still,…
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Gadgets
Infinix HOT 8 Pre-orders Go Live in Kenya
Infinix Kenya has officially announced the availability of Infinix HOT 8 in Kenya. Earlier we had tipped about the device…
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Gadgets
TECNO Camon 12 Series Slated to Launch in Kenya soon
After TECNO launched its camera-centric TECNO Camon 12 series in Nigeria, Kenya is next in line. TECNO Kenya plans to…
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Gadgets
Huawei Mate 30 Series Launched with Kirin 990 SoC and 40MP primary camera
After the panned Sept 19th launch date, Huawei finally announced its year’s second flagship devices in the Mate Series. This…
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Gadgets
Oppo F11 Series Revamped With New Jewelry White Color Variant
Oppo, the Chinese smartphone maker, has revamped its Oppo F11 series of devices in Kenya with a new color variant.…
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Gadgets
Samsung Might Combine its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note Series Devices Next Year
Samsung has kept its yearly smartphone strategy for top-tier devices for a long time. However, that may soon change. And…
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Gadgets
List of hottest top-tier devices selling at Safaricom Shops
Safaricom shops have been known as one of the reputable places in the country to buy gadgets ranging from smartphones,…
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Gadgets
Nokia 6.2 and Nokia 7.2 Pre-orders Go Live in Kenya
After announcing Nokia 7.2 and Nokia 6.2 at IFA 2019 conference held in Berlin HDM Global, home of Nokia phones…
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Gadgets
Nokia 7.2 Specifications, Price and Availability in Kenya
After last year’s Nokia 7.1, HMD Global announced its successor at the IFA 2019 trade show. Nokia 7.2 is another…
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BUSINESS
Drone Attacks Slice Saudi Arabia’s Oil Production Plant Outputs by Half
Along the weekend, Saudi Arabia has been seen as a production cut on its oil production volume country-wide. According to…
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Gadgets
TECNO Camon 12 Specifications, Price and Availability in Kenya
After the high-end TECNO Camon 12 Pro, TECNO Camon 12 comes next in line of the Camon 12 series. So,…
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Apps
LastPass Fixes a bug that could let Malicious website Extract your last used Password
LastPass has released details of a vulnerability on the platform that exposed credentials used on a previous website. ZDNet reported…
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Apps
Google Chrome Now Lets you share Tabs to your other Devices
Google Chrome version 77 was released officially last week packing in the ability to share your tabs to your other…
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Blockchain
France says it will block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe
Two months later since Facebook officially announced its planned launch of own cryptocurrency Libra, many jabs have been thrown at…
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News
Huawei Partners With Belgium Nonprofit “Close the Gap” To Bring Digital Skills Across Kenya
Huawei, in its Tech4ALL initiative, has announced a partnership with Belgium’s Nonprofit Organization “Close the Gap” aimed at providing digital…
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BUSINESS
Huawei CEO Interested in Selling their 5G Technology to a “Western buyer”
Amidst the on-going US trade ban and the US-China trade wars, Huawei CEO has revealed plans of selling their 5G…
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Gadgets
Nokia 6.2 Announced | Specifications and Price in Kenya
Unlike Huawei which concentrated on their upcoming technology at IFA 2019, HMD Global the home of Nokia devices announced a…
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Gadgets
TECNO Camon 12 Pro Price, Specifications and Availability in Kenya
TECNO Camon 12 Pro succeeds TECNO’s Camon 11 that was launched earlier this year. The device is the top tier…
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Apps
Firefox Additionally tightens its user’s privacy on the web with a VPN service
Last week, Mozilla launched its new browser Firefox version 69 that was majorly aimed at tightening privacy while surfing the…
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Gadgets
Apple Announces iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max
Apple has finally announced its new iPhone 11 series aimed to take on the many Android flagships existent on the…
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Gadgets
Huawei Announces Android 10 Update Roadmap for its devices
After Android 10 was officially rolled out, only the chosen few have been able to have a share of Google’s…
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Gadgets
Oppo A9(2020) is Official, Featuring Snapdragon 655 SoC and Quad-camera Setup
So, it is still 2019, but we are remaining with only four months before the year closes. Oppo has officially…
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News
Apple Set to Announce iPhone 11 Series today – How to Watch Live
Apple’s new series of iPhones, the iPhone 11 is set to be launched today. And as usual, there have been…
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Gadgets
Huawei Launches Kirin A1 Chip at IFA 2019 Featuring Dual-Channel Support
Huawei announced the Kirin A1 chip aimed at taking advantage of the Internet of Things era. Kirin A1 is designed…
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