No more worry for Safe drinking water as LG’s newest InstaView Door-in-Door fridge disinfects the water dispenser with UV light It’s exciting to imagine the kind of comfort and peace of mind ..
Artificial Intelligence Centre Of Excellence (AICE) will launch the first inaugural AI for Leaders Roundtable on the 28th of January 2021 to curb the AI and ML skills gap and propel revenue generation ..
One of the most beloved sources of power is solar panels. Here in Kenya it has been pushed as the biggest technology that will take care of the last mile power connection in rural homes. Through programmes ..
If you are working for Safaricom or any other company as a customer care representative then it is time you packed your things in readiness to quit. This is because Google has perfected the Google Assistant ..
Among the many Kenyans who know close to nothing about cryptocurrencies and blockchain is President Uhuru Kenyatta. The President displayed his ignorance when at a forum in the United Kingdom he said Kenya ..
Actuators are mechanisms which control the environment they are present in, by a variety of control methods. These controls can be simple or complex, and can be either hardware or software based as the user ..
It is amazing to watch the rate of development within the robotics industry. Unfortunately, most of the discussion outside the tech cycles is about the fear of people losing their jobs or the robots turning ..
The year 2017 will probably be more associated with the forth-coming general elections in Kenya and whatever will happen thereafter but this is also the year M-PESA turned ten. M-pesa was launched ..
In this third part of this series we examine the multibillion business and job opportunities available in IoT, The Cloud, and Big Data. If this is the first article you are reading in the series, then ..
This is the second part of the five part series on the 5 tech sectors that can make you a billionaire right now to the next five decades. The first part examined at some length how you can start making ..
Since the dawn of information and communication technologies in the late 1970s, particularly powered by the wide spread adoption of Personal Computers, Internet penetration and the use of world wide web for content ..
Ericsson opened Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 with three stand-out announcements featuring partners and major customers. These included: Network evolution towards 5G An innovative new business model ..
IBM and Ericsson have announced a research breakthrough that could accelerate the launch of 5G communications networks and support new mobile enterprise and user experiences enabled by very high data rates, ..
Artificial intelligence is at it again. In a poker tournament that ended on 30 January, Libratus-a poker playing bot- beat 4 of the best poker players in the world. The 20-day tournament dubbed as “Brain ..
For quite a while now, Microsoft has been hinting of a new Windows Phone device. Windows enthusiasts have even gone further and named the yet to be announced phone, the Surface Phone. A device that will ..
Yesterday I did an article talking about why coding should be a must for the young kids in Kenya. Then one of the tech guru’s in Kenya Mr. Tom Makau replied on my tweet about it by saying that to him, ..
Probably by now you should have heard of autonomous car projects by companies such as Google and Tesla. By autonomous I mean self-driving cars. Sometime last month we even wrote to you about the plans ..
At the Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong, the company announced it will be launching Snapdragon X50, the world’s first 5G modem. Chipmaker Qualcomm claims that the chip could support download speeds ..
Remember TV White Spaces? The Microsoft initiative to bring internet to the masses? Well, It’s on, ladies and gentlemen. Microsoft has been touting the beauty of this technology in ‘Empowering ..
Five of the world’s largest technology companies have come together to create a historic collaboration. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Amazon have formed a collaboration that will be referred to as “Partnership ..
On Tuesday Nissan unveiled an autonomous chair system to ease the experience of queuing. The chair has been named after the company’s flagship autonomous driving technology proPILOT. The proPILOT chair ..
Almost every other week a new startup crops up in Kenya, hoping to reap with Uber’s farming methods. The last one was a Rwandan effort in the Kenyan market and it’s anyone’s guess how that one goes. ..
See all those tablets that come out of China that come wielding both Windows and Android? 2-in-1 hybrids that come with Remix OS and Windows 10 among other variations. Well, they were an indicator of things ..
WhereIsMyTransport is a technology company that wants to transform the transport sector in Africa, both formal and informal. The South African company specifically wants to collate transit data for formal ..
Earlier on I informed you that Sony has got its own virtual-reality hardware for the PlayStation 4 in this blog post. The VR headset goes by the name PlayStation VR. The headset is expected to start ..
This is the year Virtual Reality kits have gone mainstream. First we were introduced to the high end Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets. Sony has realised this is the time for a massive virtual reality ..
This is laughable now. Every other week, a new taxi hailing app emerges from the start-up undergrowth. Naturally, one had to claim this week. Enter Fone Taxi. Welcome to the fray, folks. Fone Taxi is a Rwandan ..
Safaricom-endorsed Little does not want to brew up fights with what’s probably its fiercest competitor in town: Uber. In a recent interview with the Financial Times Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore said “Uber ..
As if the cab-hailing app business wasn’t crowded enough in Kenya, a new player is dribbling their iOS and Android apps to the playing field. Taxi Chap Chap. This new player aims to captivate users with ..
Nigeria got the honour of being the first sub-Saharan country to host the CEO of (probably) the most popular social networks and Instant Messaging services (mark the plural) in any side of the world. Mr. Mark ..