The forum is expected to attract over 200 SME entrepreneurs, managers and ICT enthusiasts from industries including; telecoms, banking, education, media, health, engineering and medicine. The theme of the premiere forum is ICT: A World of Endless Possibilities for Your Business. Vodafone Uganda’s CEO Allan Richardson is quoted saying; Vodafone CEO further noted that the internet has turned the world into a global village and has become the universal source of information for billions of people, at home, at school, and at work....

Plot twist: Or perhaps a telephone call, an email, even a newspaper headline. No, a screaming newspaper headline, a catchy lede and then a full page story. There will certainly be something hidden and unexplained. A mystery, a secret, a story of rags to riches. A story that will make one seem like an overnight success. There follows a process of observation and investigation — clues, facts, witnesses. Hypotheses will be proposed and interrogated....

However, putting future expectations aside, let’s take a walk down memory lane together and highlight some of the top innovative tech trends that rocked the smartphone space in 2018. 1. Mechanical Pop-up Cameras & Sliders Notches helped maximize the amount of screen size available to users but it has its flaws. Aside from messing with your phone’s notifications, notches are actually still bezels. Miniaturized bezels. Sliders and pop-up camera designs, on the other hand, do better jobs eliminating bezels by moving the selfie camera away from the native ‘above-screen’ position into modules that slides out and retract into phones....

A tweet will make any Ugandan network customer care respond to you faster than any other channel like the Toll free lines, email, or website. Other than time saving, there are more reasons you should tweet your problem rather than go through those long voice-menu prompts. Get Instant Response I personally gave up calling my network provider. I’ve tried more than ten times and the best I got was a response after 10 minutes after enduring a long tail of commercials....

Whereas talk of competition with the Apple iPhone 8 and Samsung Galaxy S8 might be an exaggeration, this device has a few strokes it pulls that make it standout of the rest when looking for an option for purchase. It could have been launched around the same time with the iPhone X, and could have fallen behind the latter’s shadow, but we shall not let it go by without mention....

What are the best features of the Samsung Galaxy Fold? We shall look at that in detail in this article — from the massive battery to great display. Let’s dive into it. 1. Display The beauty with the foldable smartphone is that it will give you a tablet-like display whilst you being able to carry it around in your pocket. How cool? The Samsung Galaxy Fold has a 7.30-inch touchscreen primary display with a resolution of 1536 x 2152 pixels at a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch....

Like many people, accessing your email using the web browser seems to be the most common way of doing things. It is simple to use, customizable with themes, and so on. But that is not the only way of doing it. Email clients have been a thing for a long time now and should you be in need for one of these, chances are that your operating system comes with one of these baked in already....

The kind of apps running in our smartphones, our charging habits sometimes contribute to a quicker drop in the performance of these batteries. Here are some common charging habits to avoid for improves battery performance. 1. Charging and Gaming Well, I must confess, I do this often. We all love to play games on our smartphones and sometimes, they can be addictive and are really hard to resist. But what you should understand is that, because games now come with advanced graphics and special effects, they demand more energy and put pressure on your smartphone battery....

Before the advent of these NAS-optimized hard drives, traditional mechanical drives used on regular desktops and PCs were also used on NAS systems. But because regular drives performed poorly on NAS devices, hard drives built and designed for NAS systems were introduced. And unlike regular desktop hard drive that are engineered to optimally run for only hours at length, NAS-optimized hard drives run for longer periods, are quieter during operation, faster, RAID-optimised, more reliable, and sport more premium features....

Some hate it some love it, but here are the 5 things I love and would miss if Orange closed shop Good Customer Care From the beginning, Orange set itself apart through its customer care. At a time when getting to MTN customer care was harder than switching to another network, having good customer care was a breath of fresh air. They would pick customer calls instantly, call you back to follow up till your issue is resolved and even when an issue is never resolved, the fact that they listened was enough....

How to create a WiFi network To create a WiFi network, you need a WiFi router or a Wireless Access Point(WAP). Chances are that you already have one. It’s the same device that your Internet provider sells to you to access the internet. For most of our readers in Uganda, Kenya or Nigeria, the MiFi is the closest to a freely available WiFi router. A MiFi isn’t primarily used as a WiFi router....

A password manager is an encrypted vault for storing passwords that is itself protected by a master password. It lives in the browser and acts as though an online gate keeper. You just master one password for the password manager itself and everything is catered for. One of the most important features of most password managers is the ability to automatically fill in passwords to stored sites and it’s also a good way to avoid having passwords stolen by keylogging malware....

But shopping for a TV these days isn’t as easy as it used to be. It’s like buying a smartphone. You hear lots of bells and whistles some of which you don’t need.You’ve probably heard of LED, LCD, Plasma, HDTV, UHDTV, SUHDTV, 3D HDTV, DNLA, 4K and so on. The salesmen like this because they can capitalize on your ignorance and sell to you whatever they want. Now even though we’ve a smart TV at home that I’ve interacted with for about 3 years, I must confess that the buzzwords sometimes confuse me as well....

The mobile banking service will be introduced first to customers of Equity, Centenary, Pride, and Opportunity and DFCU banks. Airtel Uganda has been at the forefront of the mobile payment and banking solutions- by partnering with companies and fostering innovations that are aimed at improving the lives of their customers. Innovations such as; fuel payments, domestic bill payments and, KCCA fees payment using Airtel money; Airtel Uganda has grown its mobile money platform beyond the traditional exchange of funds via mobile phones....

Okay may be not that dramatic. Point is, no one wants their phone doing things they didn’t authorize it to do. Some people prevent that by putting passwords, unlock patterns and combinations but sometimes they become an inconvenience. A couple of Tecno phones have a function called the “anti inadvertently” mode that automatically locks your phone or puts it to sleep while in your pocket or bag. Let’s start by defining the word “inadvertently” – It’s an adverb that means without intention, accidentally or in error....

In this post, we’ll be highlighting the major differences and upgrades that came to the Apple watch series 7 relative to the series 6. In the end, you should be able to decide if you’ll be making an upgrade to the latest version. READ MORE: Mi Watch Lite(Redmi GPS Watch) review: Budget smartwatch with built-in GPS. Apple Watch Series 7 vs 6 Differences Apple Watch Series 7 vs 6 Display One of the most pronounced differences between the Apple watch series 7 and series 6 is the display....

The service is being rolled out progressively at various Barclays branches with a goal of having all their branches go paperless. This is clearly a great innovation and Barclays Uganda has been one of the Banks leading innovation in banking. One of their products is the cardless banking where Barclays customers can deposit or send funds to anyone in Uganda even if they are not a Barclays customer. For example a Barclays customer seeking to send money to a friend would deposit the money and input details of the recipient like phone number amount to be sent etc....

In the future we will look back on her words and hail Nicola as a prophet if at all her prediction comes to pass. In the meantime back home, our own Barefoot Lawyers, who use information technology to provide free legal information, recently took part in the making of history when they filmed a Facebook Live broadcast of a Court case in Uganda.The court proceedings were broadcast from Lira Chief Magistrate’s Courtroom on Thursday, 16th June 2016, running for a little over 1 hour and watched by more than 4,000 viewers on Facebook marking the first time Facebook, arguably the primary source of news in Uganda among the youth has been used to broadcast news this way....

Google is in mad love with numbers. The search giant makes more than 90% of its revenue through advertisement implying that the more eyeballs it has (Google users), the more money it bags. In 2012, details of the failure of the $ 100 million national fiber optic internet backbone infrastructure contract between the government of Uganda and embattled Chinese telecommunications giant –Huawei technologies– were made public. There was an outcry by Uganda citing overpricing and poor quality workmanship in laying of the cables....

For obvious reasons, venture capitalists are scrambling for startups in the Fintech space to invest in. They are betting on companies solving financial problems on the African continent. From remittances to neobanks, to payments and lending platforms, cross-border transfers, etc. Chipper Cash is a cross-border money transfer startup that facilitates cross-border payment across Africa. The startup was founded in 2018 by Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled. It began its journey with two seed rounds worth $8....