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SMS on the other hand came with the intention of conquering cellular/GSM (Global System for Mobile networks) mobile networks. The creation of SMS was rather accidental! It was designed to be used in the signalling channels of the mobile networks, but after Telecoms discovered its potential, they decided to commercialize it and offered it as a service together with voice services. Okay that’s just about the history, now lets look at how, why and when you should use either technologies....

If you’ve been in the computing space over the past decade, you might have heard about GPUs. Companies like NVIDIA have risen to prominence because of this. You might have also heard about external graphics processing unit adapters (eGPUs), but what are they exactly? While GPUs are for gaming devices, for the most part, eGPUs can be used with your laptop computer to get extra performance from a video card, at home, or on the go....

Under the theme of “Connecting Markets, Trends & People”, the conference hosted some 300 delegates, including many DHL customers from leading global technology companies, for a three day program of plenary sessions and workshops. Topics covered included the latest trends, innovations and solutions impacting the technology supply chain and focusing on the Middle East and Africa as key regions of interest with high growth potential. The “Rise of Africa” plenary session and several workshops set out to explore the potential of and expectations for the African continent, with discussions on how to best navigate existing challenges and trade barriers and tap into growth....

Government says that the decision to censor Social Media was for security reasons aiming at individuals who misuse social media to misinform and incite violence among members of the public. The directive was met with defiance that saw a good majority of urban Ugandans install VPNs to bypass the blockade. Statistics circulating on Social media have it that Ugandans downloaded over 1.5M VPNs in under 24 hours. We are glad the blockade has been lifted and we can finally access Social Media at least for now....

AFP is a global news agency delivering fast, accurate, in-depth coverage of the events shaping our world from conflicts to politics, economics, sports, entertainment and the latest breakthroughs in health, science and technology. With 2,400 staff spread across almost every country, AFP covers the world 24 hours a day in six languages. AFP delivers the news in video, text, photos, multimedia and graphics to a wide range of customers including newspapers and magazines, radio and TV channels, web sites and portals, mobile operators, corporate clients as well as public institutions....

Earlier this week at Oculus Connect 5 (OC5), Facebook introduced Oculus Quest. This is the company’s first all-in-one VR system with six degrees of freedom that lets users look around in any direction and walk through virtual spaces, just as they would in the physical world. This is the VR experience everyone’s been waiting for. High-end PC headsets are not how VR gets big. That much is clear by now, more than two years after the launch of the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive....

Fast Charging Briefly Explained Your battery works with two poles, a negative and a positive. At the negative end, you have a ton of free electrons while the positive end has less. Naturally, those electrons just want to flow to the positive end. And as they flow, they will power any component you place along their path. Once all the electrons are at the positive end, your battery dies. Conversely, charging comes in to create the difference again by using electricity to push electrons back to the negative pole....

iThings I am probably risking being shot by some apple fan boys who are happily using their iMacs, iPhones, iPads and other iThings and may even be reading this blog post using them. However, the fact is, very few Ugandans except executives and graphics, Ad and Media companies own or use apple products. Their prohibitive cost is rational reason for their unpopularity given Africa is a price-sensitive market. To put it in context, a 2....

If you want to reach millions of Africans instantly, Radio is your media Voice is now the only way to reach more than 70% of African population. And for business, it’s also proving to be the best tool for empowering the local commerce as Anna Bon of VU University in Amsterdam and “Web Alliance for Re-greening in Africa” reports: “Zakary Diarra, farmer, beekeeper and honey producer lives in a small village named Bokuy-Mankoina in the south-east of Mali....

Unlike the rest of the web where a file you need to download is hosted on a single server, in Torrenting, as is in any peer-to-peer network, there’s no single server hosting a file. Instead, the file is broken up into hundreds of little bits that are then ‘hosted’ in many different web sources at the same time. Before we explore how it all works, lets define a few terms....

Read More: Huawei is inviting developers to publish apps on App Gallery (its alternative to Google Play Store) Speaking on the Google Go apps which houses a host of functionalities like access to Assitant Go, Google Lens and from there you can access Maps, Weather and Youtube Go with just a click. Despite the lightweight nature, the Google Go app packs quite a lot of features one of which is a personalized news feed based on your interests, search history and preferences....

DStv/GOtv automatic scan has been the bane of my existence ever since I started subscribing to Multichoice’s Pay-TV service. We even did an explainer on why your DStv/GOtv decoder always scans after you switch it back on. The software upgrade The new software update might be rather intrusive for some subscribers. Some viewers reported it taking over their screen to force the upgrade. Personally, it happened when we switched on the decoder in the morning....

“Mail & Guardian Africa has taken the bold step to report Africa by telling why things do or do not happen, using an evidence-based, non-dogmatic and analytical approach and exploring the new opportunities that technology, social media and crowd-sourcing tools offer to do that in new ways,” says Mail and Guardian Africa Editor Charles Onyango-Obbo, a leading pan-African journalist with an unparalleled grasp of the Africa narrative. The news site will aim to be the leading and most important commercially successful contemporary voice on African issues offering News analysis, insight, commentary and investigative journalism across the continent....

Read More: Top Google Chrome URL Command Shortcuts you should know Initially, Chrome made it possible to use dark themes on the app which doesn’t work on webpages. However, a Chrome flag was added later on to include a dark mode in web pages instead of just the UI. Although, it later affected the images in the web pages and that was sorted out later by excluding images from the whole inversion that gave the web pages the dark theme you see....

Apple’s October 18 Event wasn’t any different and here, we saw the company unveil a bunch of new products and services that make the proverbial ecosystem look even more vibrant. In this post, we shall quickly highlight some of these. Apple Music Voice Plan Siri, Apple’sbversion of the Google Assistant, has come a long way over the past few years, learning new skills and generally being a little more useful....

Since the validation process requires one to present their National Identification Number (NIN), many people are flocking various offices to get their card or to register their identity; with all hope lying in the hands of National Identification and Registration Authority. This post serves to guide you on how to quickly know the status of yo ID registration, with no need for standing and waiting in the long queues. All you need to have is an operating sim card, so that you dial the USSD code reserved for NIRA to track national ID registration, and the application form with which you registered for your National identity....

In this post, we’ll take you through why this happens sometimes on your iPhone and what you should do when you see it stop charging at 80%. Read through and let us know what subsequent experience is like. READ MORE: How to Change Wallpaper and ScreenSaver on Your iPhone. Why Does My iPhone Stop Charging at 80%? There can be 2 major reasons that can make your iPhone stop charging at 80%....

Smart speakers, smart displays, smart plugs, and smart light bulbs are a good starting point if want to begin the smart home journey. We will, in this article, explain the differences between smart light bulbs and regular bulbs, and why you might need one. Related Article: Yeelight Smart Led Bulb Review (Color Version): Best Value for Money Smart Light Bulbs vs Ordinary Bulbs Controls With your regular light bulb, you’ll need to walk up to the switch to turn it on or off....

Let’s look at what Stanbic FlexiPay is in this guide. How to register as a customer, merchant, the transaction cost, and the perks that come when you use the FlexiPay service. Let’s get started with it, shall we? What is Stanbic Bank’s FlexiPay? Stanbic Bank Uganda has created FlexiPay, a financial technology inclusion service that allows users without bank accounts to create wallets, send and receive money, deposit money into their wallets using mobile money, and bank accounts using their phone numbers....

This was majorly because of the high costs of internet access that was way beyond what the average Ugandan could afford. A basic dial-up internet connection(that is 64Kbps) used to cost between 90,000 to 120,000 UG Shs which is between $44-$58 from either UTL or INFOCOM and even at that cost, internet reliability was not guaranteed. However, these costs were affordable to a cafe owner since the cost was shared among visiting clients....