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Li-Fi, a short form of Light Fidelity, is a form of visible light communication (VLC) and a subset of Optical Wireless Communication (OWC). It is basically defined as the transmission of data through illumination. This data is sent through an LED light bulb that varies in intensity faster than the human eye can try to follow. OWC technology uses light from light emitting diodes as a medium to deliver networked, mobile, high speed communication in a way similar to Wi-Fi....

Interswitch is an integrated payment and transaction processing company that provides technology integration, advisory services, transaction processing and payment infrastructure to government, banks and corporate organizations. That’s quite a mouthful, but in short, they are a network for banks. If you view publisher site with our partners, it is quite likely that in future they will consider providing you more loans with better interest rates. Interswitch Member Banks and ATM Footprint Interswitch Uganda currently has 13 member banks namely;...

Classifieds have been with us since the invention of media. They are on newspapers, TVs and Radio. But posting your Ad on these platform will cost you a few Shillings. Not online. Online classifieds are mostly free and easy to use. All you need is an internet-connected device which could be your laptop or smartphone together with an account to post your Ad. In Uganda, these websites that are about buying and selling stuff are gaining traction every other day....

An excellent resume builder doesn’t just give you a bland template and stuff it with generic information; it takes the time to craft a tailored resume to improve your chances of getting hired. Not all resume builders provide the same tools to build your resume. Without further ado, here are the top ten sites in no particular order that you could try to impress your next employer. 1. Zety Zety is a career website with an online resume builder and an easy-to-use cover letter generator....

I’ll show you how to set up Google Assistant Routines in the steps below and share the top 4 Google Assistant Routines you can adopt in 2021. How to Setup Google Assistant Routines Step 1: Long-press the Home icon on your phone Step 2: When the Google Assistant opens up, say “Setup Routines” Step 3: Choose Routines or More settings and scroll through the list of available pre-set routines and tap on Start Your Routines....

What is a Torrent Client? A Torrent client is communications protocol used for peer-to-peer file sharing. It prepares, requests, and transmits any type of computer files over a network with the help of BitTorrent protocol. To share an initial file, a small file with a “torrent” extension is created on a peer machine. The torrent file contains metadata about the shared files and about the tracker, the computer coordinating distribution. In order to download shared files, peers need to obtain a torrent file first and then connect to a tracker, which coordinates them with other peers they can download pieces of file from....

Twitter believes that “the human voice can bring a layer of connectivity to the platform [Twitter] through emotion, nuance, and empathy often lost in text.” It also makes reference to voice tweets and voice DMs. As announced, Twitter has started beta-testing Spaces privately. This test will be limited to select individuals (mostly women), largely from under-represented backgrounds, according to Twitter. Spaces will run only on iOS devices during the beta....

Amid massive complaints and requests, now one can reply to a DM(s) across all devices and twitter accounts with a real-time capability of synchronising. Meanwhile, an update of Twitter apps is a prerequisite to activate real-time syncs across devices. However, U.S will be the first to have this sync capability rolled out. In Other News Twitter’s — Android, iPhone, iPad and mobile — search results has been improved. A search for people on Twitter will present an extended user result that shows full bio and account previews....

In a blog post by the social media company, which now boasts of over 380 million users, it was stated that it is testing tweets that are as long as 280 characters in a bid to make it easy for every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter. This new catch will be first available for a selection of languages of those impacted by cramming except Japanese, Chinese, and Korean....

Other than this unfortunate piece of information, it’s business as usual for the likes of MTN, Airtel, Africell, Uganda Telecom and the rest. Other vital services such as SIM replacement, Mobile Money transactions, calls and data bundles are operational. Arrangements are in place to give the telecom companies direct access to the National ID database by the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA). In the meantime, the telecom companies are expected to install ID card readers at their official service centers to facilitate the verification of National ID details before the issuance of new SIM cards....

USB 4 is expected to even double USB 3.2 bandwidth to 40Gbps and enable multiple simultaneous data and display protocols. This will be achieved through the use of two 20 Gbps channels. With this bandwidth, USB 4 will now be similar to Intel’s proprietary Thunderbolt 3 spec popularly used in the latest Macbooks and premium Windows PCs. You can read more on on the differences between USB-C and Thunderbolt. Now because USB 4 vendors won’t be required to pay hefty loyalty fees....

One University, fully licensed by the Uganda National Council for Higher Education has introduced a new paradigm to education. One, that brings education to where you are, wherever you live at anytime you want. Virtual University of Uganda is the first online university in the region offering postgraduate online courses in the fields of Public Health, ICT for Development, Executive Business Administration and International Development. Their target as you can tell are professionals with an undergraduate degree who would like to further their careers....

But for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), these nitty-gritties are very important and in fact one OEM, Huawei to be specific is facing the heat of this differentiation. As you might already know, Google is reportedly ceasing business with Huawei as a result of the chinese telco and phone vendor being added to an export blacklist by the Trump Administration. The consequences of this update is that new Huawei devices will no longer be supported by Android, Google’s Mobile Operating System even though existing devices will continue to receive updates....

What’s Digital Wellbeing? Digital Wellbeing is arguably one of the top 5 features of the Android 9 Pie OS. Basically, Digital Wellbeing is a new dashboard in the Android Pie Settings menu that gets you less addicted to your device. Or perhaps helps curb your smartphone addiction. Whichever the case might be, Google brought in Digital Wellbeing to save you. The feature was announced earlier this year by Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai as a crucial part of Google’s Digital Wellbeing campaign at the company’s I/O 2018 conference back in May....

This feature will allow writers, experts, and creators to “share their written work, spark meaningful conversations and build a loyal following.” This makes a lot of sense as many Twitter users’ following usually centers around conversations. To add this feature, Twitter acquired Revue. Revue is a service that makes it free and easy for anyone to start and publish editorial newsletters. It has now been integrated into the Twitter platform....

To put this in contrast, Skype which has been around for 12 years only has a total 300 million users. Only a fraction of these occasionally use the app for calls. Give or take a few million, daily Skype calls could fall within 5 to 10% of the total users of the app. According to USAToday, WhatsApp Co-founder and CEO Jan Koum‘s goal for WhatsApp is that everyone with a smartphone should be using the app before it reaches what he considers ‘critical mass’ “We’re nowhere near that,” Koum says of the goal....

Before and after the new kid on the block showed up, these messaging Apps will deliver nearly the same user experience and value that Whatsapp does. Mixit Mxit is a free instant messaging application developed by Mxit (Pty) Ltd. in South Africa that runs on over 8000 devices, including feature phones, Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and tablets. This app boosts about 7.4 million monthly active subscribers as of July 2013, of which 6,3 million are in South Africa....

Perhaps that’s a discussion for another day, but for today I am writing about why Africa needs to move away from its addiction on SMS. SMS is insanely expensive Let’s face it, IP-based messaging services are hundred of times cheaper that legacy SMS messaging. From personal experience, I spend about 1000UGX($0.39) on airtime a day which I convert into data and this enables me communicate all day via IM, Chat and email....

The popularity and the increasing adoption of Chromebooks (which are powered by the Chrome OS) in the education market, prompted a response from Microsoft, and it ended up launching the Windows 10x – which was eventually scrapped. We can say that the new Windows 11 edition (SE) is coming in as a successor to the scrapped Windows 10x. Windows 11 SE: How is it Different? Windows 11 SE won’t come with the Microsoft Store – like on Windows 11....

The event is organized by Mara launchpad and Hivecolab with Smile Communication and Nokia being the Sponsors in partnership and the World bank. On Sunday, teams will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges and stakeholders in the sanitation sector. The winners will implement their projects with key stakeholders while the other teams’ projects will continue to be developed under the hive collab lab program by hivecolab. I’ve already interacted with various teams on the site and the ideas and apps coming out of this hackathon will astonish you....