Web & Social

Airtel Uganda launched amazing Internet products for its customers under the umbrella brand ‘Switch ON,’ and now want to reward fans for sharing the good news! By logging on to www.switchon.ug users can register themselves to activate 20MBs of FREE DATA!!!  Valid for 30 days, which... Read More

So you are or already planning to travel to a new country for a business trip, a visit to a relative or just a cool vacation? Okay, first things first, you need to have some money on you. But how much? you might be wondering.... Read More

This should not happen to anyone. But we've heard cases of people actually having fatal accidents -- maybe not as fatal as being hit by a truck -- just because they didn't take some precautionary measures or did some really silly things. I know some... Read More

I like to call them domain mafias, not investors or brokers as some would refer them. 22 gTLDs (generic top-level domain ) were launched from 1985 to 2012 these include .com, .org, .net, .edu, .gov, .int among others. 617 new gTLDs launched in 2013 only. gTLD... Read More

Forget about Ellen DeGeneres' all-star group selfie  at the Oscars' that went viral earlier on this year. Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni just took his first selfie. Armed with Samsung's Galaxy Note 3, like Ellen's, the president took a selfie with a subtly lit facial expression and... Read More

The case of tablets -- ipads and gadgets alike-- revolutionizing mobile usage in Africa is no cause of debate. It's a no-brainer. In academia, for example, the use of tablets could potentially be the game changer in enhancing e-learning. Whereas the young lads easily find... Read More

It's quite unlikely to talk about renown world leaders who are active on social media without mentioning Rwanda's controversial President, Paul Kagame. With over  260k followers  and following nobody, @PaulKagame's stray tweet, according  to The Washington Post, could  have pulled off  the veil regarding so... Read More

The international media has been awash with the ephemerality of Snapchat -- an application for smartphones that allows users to send each other images and videos that “self-destruct” from servers after 10 seconds of viewing. For many, the use of this fast-growing app --Snapchat-- is worrying... Read More

When it come to events in Uganda, you will be surprised that there is actually no Ugandan mobile app (For Android, iPhone or Windows) that helps you know about events happening in and around Kampala or even Uganda. So if you want to know about... Read More