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What Is HDMI ARC? Currently, High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is the most used medium for sending high definition multimedia signals from most devices to TVs. It is popularly available and integrated on a majority of consumer and commercial electronics. The HDMI standard has been revised a couple of times with HDMI 2.1a being the latest version. Check out our dedicated post on HDMI 2.1a to learn more. Just to highlight, HDMI 2....

It’s interesting to note that MultiChoice has been a leader in satellite/terrestrial Pay-TV in Africa and will now lock horns with established media streaming box device manufacturers the world over. DStv Explora Ultra Decoder features The Dstv Explora Ultra decoder will offer the best of both worlds so to speak. It will offer high-quality satellite broadcasting which has been their mainstay, as well as integration with popular streaming services as talked about earlier....

Eden (@OurEdenLife) is a Lagos-based service that helps users automate house chores. Some of these include laundry, cooking, general house cleaning. This they do by assigning experts called “gardeners” to each subscriber. Shola (not real name), a professional in Lagos, laments how most of her house chores are fulfilled on weekends, as weekdays are characterized by work and traffic. Hence, it’s a cycle of never-ending work with little rest window....

Facebook’s API tools are intended to be used by Developers to build chat bots targeted at businesses with the aim of disrupting the widespread usage of regular calls, toll free call and SMS. Chat bots will take over the mostly automated queries of business clients with some level of human intervention where needed. Facebook’s 900 million users represent a very lucrative market for developers and businesses which can tap into the most used social media platform to bring services closer to their clients....

Similar to other social networks like Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook will allow appearance of a tagged post or image in different feeds when clicked on. However, the difference is that Facebook allows users to decide on their readership every time they make a post so that they can be read by either the public or a selected audience. Despite the heavy usage of hashtags by many social networks, Twitter is well known for having popularized this trend that blends well with its 140 character limit....

This year’s challenge attracted 72 entries from which 20 made it to the final round. With a mandate to fulfill a corporate social responsibility, Orange Uganda partnered with various organisations such as; Huawei as a technology partner, Vision Group as media partner, College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology as academic partner and CEOSummit as training and mentoring partner. The MD Hauwei Uganda Mr. Radoslaw Kedzia thanked the innovative students for their participation as he announced the Huawei Y300 android smartphones that were given to all finalists of the day....

Many in the tech sphere were anticipating major changes in the Mobile Money sector including Mobile Money providers availing their API’s for third party services to the platform further integrating services like VISA which would enable people to do more with their money We’ve been following the sector closely monitoring developments, reviewing and analyzing new products making forecasts and predictions and even though there has been growth, we still have a long way to go....

Now we’ve already broken down several MiFis in the Ugandan market together with their features and prices. We defintely find Smile’s 4G LTE MiFi an irresistible product. Smile is one of the data networks running the faster 4G LTE mobile network standard. That means you can say goodbye to slow internet connections. In fact with Smile MiFi, we were able to stream Youtube videos without any signs of buffering, even with upto 5 users connected!...

The Logistics company has always had its sights on the entire Logistics market in Africa, so Its expansion into Ghana, I think is a step towards executing that vision. GIGLogistics made the announcement on its official twitter handle today. In Ghana, it will adopt a similar operations strategy like it is in Nigeria – it will be end-to-end logistics, from drop-off till delivery. GIGL main focus, however, will be on Ghana’s eCommerce sector because the company believes the sector is growing very fast....

Microsoft is also thinking about business customers. OneDrive for Business customers will also get unlimited storage as part of the companies Office 365 roadmap in the coming months. Office 365 Microsoft’s Office suite can be accessed using a web browser and it’s more than just an online productivity suit. Office 365 is delivered to users through the cloud and includes Exchange Online for email, SharePoint Online for collaboration, Lync Online for unified communications, and a suite of Office Web Apps, Web-based versions of the traditional Microsoft Office suite of applications....

Currently all you see on Google homepage is a white screen, a search box and a pretty logo which gets changed now and on depending the day’s celebrations world wide. Now Google is working on bringing us Google Now. This is a personalised homepage featured on all Android phones, the web and the search page. Google Now ‘s Slogan goes as Google Now gets you just the right information at just the right time....

Home Interface There are three main tabs on the home interface of Google podcasts: the Home tab, the Explore tab, and then there’s the Activity tab. Home Tab On the Home tab, you will find a feed of the most recent episodes from all the podcast channels you are subscribed to. It also gives you quick access to these podcast episodes. You can choose to play an episode directly from the home feed just by hitting the play button right under the title and description of the episode....

To achieve this, Google has introduced two products; knowledge graph and search gadgets or Apps. The search Apps — some of which are descendants of the iGoogle, a product that Google will be killing(once again) this November — will save you lots of time and effort if you know them. All you’ve to do is type the “App name” or “keyword” as you’ve been doing on Google’s search box and the gadget will come up as the first “result”....

According to AFP, the car was braking for pedestrians and scooting over in its lane to give bicyclists ample space. While this isn’t an entirely new concept, Google has made leaps and bounds in progress with the anticipated technology. Google’s Goal is a vehicle that operates fully without human intervention in an attempt to make driving safer and fun. Computers have really good reaction times. They don’t get distracted, drowsy, fall asleep, and they don’t drive drunk,” Google self-driving car software team lead Dmitri Dolgov says....

Read More: GoTV Uganda Ups monthly subscription fees. Here are the new package prices Unfortunately, this would make much more sense for DStv which has numerous bouquets than GOtv which has only two major ones. The assumption here is that most of GOtv’s clients already subscribe to GOtv Plus while not all Dstv’s clients subscribe to the premium bouquet. But hey, at least the few who have GOtv standard are going to have a fun weekend

MTN Uganda partnered with Huawei, ZTE, NITA and others for the award. The event was graced by officials from Huawei, ZTE, NITA and the state minister for ICT Nyombi Tembo as the chief guest. With quite a strict judging criteria, the different judges, each respected in their fields of expertise awarded 8 outstanding innovators and entrepreneurs from 125 applications. The panel of Judges included Michael Niyitegeka an ICDL accredited consultant and ICT professional, Susan Nsibirwa head of marketing New Vision a leading daily among others....

MTN Uganda customer care has a history of being hard to reach. The Internet was covered in a sea of negative comments from displeased customers who took solace on social media by throwing insults and complaints about the customer service. But the behemoth telecom has put a lot of resources to improve customer care and I can say it’s at par or sometimes better than some telecoms in Uganda. Twitter user below talking about “difficulty to get to MTN Uganda customer care” in 2015 However, with the introduction of a WhatsApp solution, you no longer need to wait endlessly on the phone for an MTN Customer care representative to pick up and attend to your issues....

The AI chatbot is trained on text from books, articles, and websites that have been “cleaned” and structured in a process called supervised learning. ChatGPT can write code, make up songs, and compose limericks and haiku. Read also: What is ChatGPT and How Does it Work? The current version of ChatGPT can do the following; Text completionGenerate and edit textCode completionGenerate, edit, and explain codeImage generationGenerate and edit imagesFine-tuningTrain a model for your use caseEmbeddingsSearch, classify, and compare text...

WhatsApp helps users save data by wearing down the quality of media they send. You know, the higher the media quality, the more date needed. And vice-versa. However, if you have enough data to go round and send high-quality media, by all means go ahead to do this. In this post, we’ll take you through how to increase the quality of media sent to others on your WhatsApp contact. Read through....

You can also share your contact card with other people via various platforms. Hence, it’s always a good idea to edit the contact card and add information that you’re comfortable sharing. By editing the card, you also give Siri more helpful information about you. In this post, we’ll show you how to edit your contact card on your iPhone, share the card with others, and why you should. Read through....