Web & Social

Google's rollout of the much anticipated Allo chat app finally hit the Play Store and App store four months after its announcement in May. The app has hit is off with a roaring start, surpassing the one million download mark after just a few days. Allo... Read More

Uganda is undoubtedly a footballing country of some repute. This is especially true in the East and Central Africa region where the Uganda Cranes dominate year in and year out. But if yesterday's victory is anything to go by, our cup of euphoria is filled to the brim,... Read More

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg landed in Kenya after visiting Nigeria's tech scene on his second leg of his first-ever sub-Saharan tour. Joseph Mucheru, the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary of Information and Communications and Victor Kyalo, Permanent Secretary for ICT and Innovation received the American... Read More

Dignited has often reported on various projects we believed were soon about to change Ugandans lives for the better, only to be disappointed. Experience is teaching us to be pragmatic in the face of glossy announcements. Case in point, the Uganda government's announcement of Free... Read More

Telegram users up until this point could only delete their own copy of the message history while in normal chat. Only in Telegram's End-to-End Encrypted Secret Chats do we see the self-destruct option that deletes the messages completely from both ends. Not anymore. A Mexican... Read More

The Uganda Parliament passed the Anti-Pornography Bill in 2014, appended with the President's signature to make it into law. The Anti-Pornography Act 2014 instituted a Pornography Control Committee to monitor and enforce the laws. Government allocated Shs. 2.6 billion ($772,000) to kick-start the process, with Shs. 300 million... Read More

Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri and independent researcher Collin Anderson have added their voices to the growing global mistrust for the widely used system of SMS verification via codes sent by SMS which can easily be accessed by telecom service providers. The researchers talking to Reuters... Read More

Take a deep breath, this will sting a little: In a strange twist of fates, the embattled Windows Phone has yet again been ditched, this time by none other than Microsoft itself. Windows Phone 8, manufactured by Microsoft will no longer be supported by Skype,... Read More

The Postal Corporation of Kenya, or simply Posta Kenya, is using technology as a tool to bolster growth and attract tech-savvy Kenyan youth. A new service, MPost dubbed Posta Mkononi gives Posta clients convenient and affordable postal services via their mobile devices which function as... Read More