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What started as an ad hoc chat between a friend and I would later snowball into one of the biggest tweetstorms of the night by a global tech leader. Jeremy Bell’s startup in the works, wattage.io, has the most scintillating manifesto I had ever read.... Read More

MTN Uganda is adding the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 to its list of phones sold and supported by the network. The Note 4 which is also Samsung's latest phablet has had great reviews from Tech review sites worldwide. The device will go for the price... Read More

Ushahidi, inc. has announced the release of the latest version of Ushahidi — v3.0.0-Beta.12. Ushahidi, is an open-source crowdsourcing tool which overlays field reports on maps, providing critical and often life-saving data during emergencies. It has pays homage to influence of development from the post... Read More

All eyes on the Communications regulatory bodies. The questions still linger, when are they going to pull the plug on analogue signal in spite of several bottlenecks? An enchilada bottlenecks such as; widespread unawareness of the migration campaign, extortion from Digital TV ancillary vendors, compulsory... Read More

In less than 140 characters, Justine Sacco's preposterous tweet about her catching AIDS upon landing in Africa got her fired from her PR job. Her reputation was injured too. This is one of the social media fails that anchored us into 2014. This year, however,... Read More

In sub-Saharan Africa, it's only Mauritius, Rwanda and Tanzania that have switched off the analogue signal. In Kenya, the initial analogue switch was slated for 13th December 2013, however all hit a dead end when the regulatory authority was slapped with a court injunction. But... Read More

Today, U.S tech companies aren't shy in claiming that they're finding it hard in recruiting programming talent. In fact, it's predicted that in 5 years there will be a shortage of more than a million jobs in computer programming in the U.S alone. Now, Andela,... Read More

The festive season is here and one of the best things about it is getting awesome deals on almost everything out there. Gotv has gone all out this weekend offering all  their  active subscribers what they are calling  the "Gotv Open Weekend". All customers regardless... Read More

Sooner than later, it will be harder to masquerade as an IT service provider or practitioner in Uganda. The National Information Technology Authority-Uganda (NITA-U), a body charged with regulating IT in Uganda has initiated a drive to certify all ICT service providers, training institutions and... Read More