Web & Social

1. Founded by a University dropout Uber was founded in 2009 in San Francisco as "UberCab" by University of California dropout Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp who is also the founder of StumbleUpon. Uber was Kalanick’s third venture with the first one having gone bankrupt. 2.... Read More

Whatsapp today has introduced a native Desktop App that you can download and install on your PC and enjoy Whatsapp. The App is supported on both Windows (8+) and Mac (10.9+). At only 60MB for the Windows version, the app is easy to install. Upon... Read More

Opera browser has played second fiddle to the likes of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (and just about every other popular web browser out there) for far too long. From the time Opera software made news when it was sold to a Chinese Consortium, Opera... Read More

The Government of Uganda through the National Information Technology Authority (NITA), Private Sector Associations, selected Ugandan SMEs and The United Nations International Trade Centre (ITC) with the support of the Netherlands Government have developed and validated an “IT & ITES Export sector plan” that was... Read More

The world is getting smaller and smaller as more and more people are joining the global village thanks to the Internet. More than 3 billion people have access to an Internet connection and these people from all walks of life are looking to connect with... Read More

Tecno took things a notch higher when they recently introduced the official Tecno Forums called Tecno Spot. These forums are the place where all Tecno fans in Africa are meant to connect and share tips, tricks and information about all things Tecno. It was from... Read More

The scramble for a WhatsApp alternative became a thing soon after WhatsApp pulled the rug from under the feet of BlackBerry, Nokia Symbian, S40, Windows Phone 7.1, Android 2.1 and 2.2 users. In retrospect, this decision was inevitable, seeing how Symbian and BlackBerry OS are... Read More

After the heavily criticized 4 day Social Media and Mobile Money Blackout that saw Ugandans pull out new tricks to bypass the blockade, UCC was awfully quiet during the blackout, leaving room for speculation on who exactly effected the blackout. UCC has finally come out to pronounce... Read More

Virtual Private Networks were at usually at the forefront of the widespread civil disobedience globally. Contrary to what was going around Social media circles, VPN doesn't stand for a Very Political Network as intimated. Neither is it a vibrant political party nor a new Telecom network.... Read More