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The ceremony was held at State House Nakasero, and was witnessed by the Chinese Embassy Charge De Affairs H.E Chu Maoming, Huawei’s Managing Director Jerry Liujiawei and the Principal College of Computing and Information Science Makerere University Tonny Oyana among others. Hon. Janet Museveni, on behalf of Government of Uganda, thanked the Republic of China and in particular Huawei for this Corporate Social Responsibility Programme saying it is crucial to the development of ICT which is now a key driver for economic development globally....

What is Google My Business? Google My Business is a free tool created to help businesses manage their online presence across the Google platform. As with an online directory, business owners create and claim ownership of their Google My Business profile and populate it with vital information such as hours, location, and photos. Business owners can also publish posts to their Google My Business profile although these posts are not permanent, they delete after 7 days....

We now have a growing list of smartphone manufacturers admiring the elimination, thus, a trend called 3.5mm audio jack removal. Amazingly, this trend is common to mostly flagship smartphones running on Android and iOS platforms. When this removal got out, a whole lot of tech reviewers and audiophiles weren’t smiling with the whole idea. Manufacturers had no choice but to voice out why they chose this sort of innovation. Here are a couple of reasons given:...

I spent a couple of days using the service and here is my review (sort of) and how-to guide on using Airtel TV. What is Airtel TV? Airtel TV is a service available to only Airtel Uganda subscribers that offers you unlimited access to the best video-on-demand (VOD) content from around the world. All you need is a registered Airtel SIM, a data-enabled device and an Airtel data bundle. According to Airtel Uganda, the service is designed to add value to the high-quality streaming while promoting local content and talent in a convenient and easy to access package free of charge only requiring the users to have an active data bundle....

Alipay is a virtual payment platform launched in 2004 by the Chinese private firm Alibaba Group which was founded by Jack Ma in 1999. One of the first start ups of this Alibaba was the online shopping platform Taobao. Alipay was created from the need to give Taobao users a safe and practical method for making payments on this platform. What is Alipay and how does it work? Alipay is a virtual payment platform that by protecting the consumer’s privacy, allows you to make safe payments online....

Also Read: Google’s Android One finally coming to Africa with the launch of the Infinix HOT 2 A few of the biggest gripes people had with the project was that Android One phones lacked features and weren’t exactly pretty. I guess the alure of Stock Android wasn’t exactly for everyone. For a while we didn’t see much in the name of Android One and we thought things were dead. But then sometime later we got the Xiaomi Mi A1, a beefy device that was thought to be the Google Pixel Lite....

A guide on what you should look out for in a smartphone camera might do you just good. Let’s start by understanding the issue of Megapixels. Most smartphone cameras are identified by the number of mega pixels they have. Well, megapixels define how much you can crop an image. Five megapixels are enough to print an image on an A4 paper, unless you want a billboard that will need about forty megapixels....

A few things we need to know about Bokeh, bokeh is the quality of out-of-focus or “blurry” parts of the image rendered by a camera lens – it is NOT the blur itself or the amount of blur in the foreground or the background of a subject. The blur that you are so used to seeing in photography that separates a subject from the background is the result of shallow “depth of field” and is generally simply called “background blur”....

There are various types of phone batteries which include; slim cell phone batteries for thinner style of phones, standard cell phone batteries, extended cell phone batteries which are generally thicker, NiCD (Nickel Cadmium Batteries), NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries), Li-Ion (Lithium Ion) Batteries and Li-Poly (Lithium Poly) Batteries among others. The battery also needs to be periodically recharged to keep its power. There are various power intensive activities like browsing the internet that drain a phone’s battery faster compared to texting and making normal calls....

Mobile is driving growth in Africa The most important thing was the impressive line of presentations that told stories behind the data provided. Otherwise, it would have seemed like a data crunching contest amongst whiz kids on a conquest to invent a new language —mathese! The conference, an initiative by the the Swedish Ministry of foreign affairs and Business Sweden introduced a number of Swedish entrepreneurs to the Uganda market as well as partnering companies for example Ericsson, EKN and Flexenclosure....

In a nutshell, what Live Location does is allow you share your location with colleagues, family and friends. In effect, you let others see where you are, so they know you’re safe. It also makes it easy to locate others in the same vicinity. Live Location is powered by Google Maps, on Android at least. End-to-End Encryption WhatsApp’s Live Location is end-to-end encrypted for a layer of security as you share your location....

The change of G Suite to Google Workspace can be said to be more than a rebrand. It looks more like an upgrade; a much better experience and package is being promised. So, look beyond the new logos and designs. It’s bigger. In this post, we try to show why Google Workspace is more than just a rebrand of G Suite. By highlighting new, very important features that have been a part of this upgrade....

Read: Beginner’s Guide to Blockchain: Understanding the basics Benefits of a Blockchain Smartphone They’re a lot more secure Blockchain smartphones available in the market today come with an inbuilt hardware wallet. This provides additional security to the device. This wallet is like an offline safe for information on your smartphone. It holds this information and provides them in case you need them while you’re offline. For now, hackers haven’t found a way to bypass the security – this is because the technology is relatively new....

Many will agree that Windows 10 was the biggest come back for Windows after the Vista and Windows 8. Personally Windows 10 incorporated most of what I love about Windows and now keeps improving it every other time. Many consumer concerns about security and productivity have been fully addressed with Windows defender and Microsoft’s host of productivity apps and features. Windows 10 Anniversary Update features According to the Windows Blog, the Anniversary Update is full of new features and innovations....

Startups will receive mentorship on how to access to regional markets and global finance with set-up links to corporations and investors. XL Africa is World Bank Group’s five-month business acceleration program that offers ground for 20 selected start-ups to attract early stage capital. It is a gear to unlock investment opportunity for promising enterprises. With the African digital sector steadily growing, providing a cohesive ecosystem to amplify their work is a mega-boost to the continental innovation and development....

In this post, I’ll take you through all the updates that Apple announced at the WWDC 2022. Read through. READ MORE: How to Cast from Apple Devices to Android TV and Google TV with Airplay on Supported devices Apple WWDC 2022 Updates iOS 16 Updates Apple announced that an update is coming to iOS – iOS 16. Here’s a summary of the updates that were announced: New Lock Screen A new lock screen is coming to iOS with the iOS 16....

I was in utter amusement at how KFC had zeroed onto an obscene amount –to an average Ugandan–for just a couple of pieces for chicken yet it was clearly a new market entrant. Sure, KFC a.k.a Kentucky Fried Chicken, the global 61 year old food supply chain had nothing new to tell Ugandans given the saturation of the market with similar companies such as Nandos and Steers. However, they had to make sure they got talked about whatsoever....

De La Rue, the world’s largest passport producer has placed its hands on developing technology that will make mobile phones the storehouse of these passports. Simply put, the innovation would allow phone users to store passports on phones. These passports will be referred to as Paperless Passports or e-passports. How will it work? The modus operandi of this digital passport is in similitude to mobile boarding cards, substitutes of printed tickets which can be used to travel through airports....

On the 9th of January, DStv Uganda finally launched the Zapper, it’s first single view HD decoder. According to the DSTV Uganda press release, the decoder only will be at UGX 160 000, however, the full kit is at UGX 309 000. The new decoder, according to DStv delivers the very best high quality picture and sound quality available on the market. The new HD decoder will replace the existing standard definition single view decoder which is being phased out....

Microsoft, the giant software company has for a while been the other side of this conversation with their Windows Mobile Operating System. For a while, Windows Phones elicited a lot of admiration from a lot of corners. The elegant hardware, the simplicity of the operating system and consistent design from the world of PCs, but kept falling short on Apps, the key driver for the other two Operating Systems and in 2017, Microsoft officially pulled the plug on Windows Phones and the Windows Mobile OS....