Web & Social

A password is a prerequisite to signing up to an online account on social media sites, personal email, e-banking, etc. and we all have them, at least until we figure out a better way to beef up online security. A good many passwords used online are frankly... Read More

Major players in the tech industry including Google and Microsoft have bet big money on the rise of internet bots as a form of communication between man and machine. While not the eerily humanoid robots in sci-fi movies (yet), the advancement and refinement of the... 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

Telegram Messenger has long been touted as one of the fastest and most secure instant messengers that anybody can use 100% free of charge. But don't take our word for it. A cash reward of $300,000 for anybody who could successfully crack their encryption went uncollected.... Read More

We recently bumped into a Dignited fan and a once ardent Facebook user now clearly showing signs of a burn out. Her love for the most popular social site in the world was on the ebb, so we sat her down and asked her what... 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

Interaction on Facebook just got a whole lot more interesting in a good sort of way and it was about time. The Facebook 'Like' button now boasts of new 'Reactions' to allow you to express feelings such love, laughter, surprise, sadness or anger. But in... Read More

Today Uganda goes to the polls to elect the next president. But many Ugandans woke up to numbness: there were no hundreds of notifications from social media they're used to waking up to. Particularly Whatsapp, Twitter and Facebook were blocked on major telecom networks. Also, mobile money was... Read More

The 1st January 1970 Bug Apple finally released a statement on their website confirming the existence of a bug that that has left many iOS devices dead in its wake. What Apple didn't explain was what causes the bug and any history related to it so... Read More