David Okwii

An anonymous whistleblowing platform for Africa, Afrileaks has been launched. The launch of the website was first annouced at the end of last year but now is available to the general public. The online system will enable users to anonymously send material to investigative media organisations of their... Read More

If you look at our African Tech trends of 2014, e-Commerce "came of age". Now that's not a far-fetched claim now that Alan Cassels the area Managing Director, DHL Equatorial Africa Region and also DHL Kenya country manager said that “The Uganda community is now more versed... Read More

Popular messaging App, Whatsapp just hit 700m users according to cofounder and chief executive Jan Koum update on Facebook yesterday. Jan said on his Facebook page that the service  sends over 30 billion messages every single day; "Today, we’re thrilled to share that WhatsApp has more than... Read More

If there's a perfect data bundle for medium data users, then it is the 2GB monthly data plan. Not too small, not so much for an average internet user whose life is somewhat tied to the internet. Orange Uganda has been offering the 2GB data... Read More

Business users often have different needs compared to individual users. So the kind of service level they expect is obviously different from consumer-focused service providers. Business users for instance value great support and dedicated services and are ready to pay a premium for it. Now... Read More

This post am writing right now will most likely be written by a fancy mathetical formulae that's clever enough to sift through tones of [un]structured data in mere seconds and come up with a great story. Sounds like Cybernet is coming to town? No, this... Read More

Mozilla the company behind the popular Firefox browser yesterday launched Firefox 34 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Now this is not like any other release you are used to that comes with increamental changes or bug fixes. Mozilla has made a bold move to ditch... Read More

Google is well aware of the fact that you own several devices such as a smartphone, tablet and laptop all of which sync with one or more Google accounts. This could potentially pose a security as intruders can take advantage of your mult-device settup. Now... Read More

So your phone is almost burning your pockets and you simply can't figure out why. Relax, your phone either is receiving a poor signal, has an intense workload or has battery charging issues. The remedies to this problem are simpler than your think. Here's how... Read More