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In Uganda, amidst the cautious people on the internet, there are also the predominant reckless teenagers and also lunatics. These may not exercise caution while online. They have fallen prey to internet hackers who exploit them of their online identities because of their ignorance. Nowadays, many tasks are completed in a click or two — you could compare that to being a heart beat away. Often, people do not even realise the power of connectivity and convenience that the internet has brought....

By logging on to www.switchon.ug users can register themselves to activate 20MBs of FREE DATA!!! Valid for 30 days, which will be renewed monthly. Users will be able to enter the name and number of a friend and ‘switch them on.’ Immediately, that friend will receive a free SMS notification with the name of the Airtel user who has switched them on, along with instructions on how to switch other people on....

Android and Windows Phone(WP) both have great keyboards no doubt. Having just a QWERTY keyboard isn’t enough anymore as Blackberry would want us to believe. Touchscreen keyboards must be smart, intuitive and support various languages across the globe. Android has several keyboards, but for the purposes of this review, I used the Google keyboard. We have been playing with WP and Android keyboards on the Infinix Hot and Lumia 640XL for a while and here’s what we make of them....

This means you will be able to search for status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments to find things shared with you. Not forgetting topics you’re interested in and see what your friends are saying about that particular topic, even posts you commented on before can be searched with this development plus your posts from last year. You can even search for posts about cities, places from a certain time like posts from last month by friends or posts written by a certain politician or from the Parliament....

Facebook groups Apps is the latest product coming out the companies hacker space dubbed “Facebook creative labs” that’s charged to create “new apps to support the diverse ways people want to connect and share”. Groups joins four apps including Mentions, Paper, Slingshot and rooms all of which are part of Facebook’s strategy to fragement itself into smaller, more manageable products outside of the main Facebook webiste. Learning from the backlash that the company received by forcing users to use its Messenger app, Facebook isn’t forcing you install the Groups App....

The African Movie and TV has seen explosive growth spearheaded by the Nigeria’s Nollywood. In fact, film making in Nigeria alone employs about a million people, split equally between production and distribution, making it the country’s biggest employer after agriculture, according to the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB). The industry has sales of $200m-300m a year. Nollywood’s appeal has reached far beyond Nigeria: its films are watched all over Africa, and beyond....

I also know you have probably seen the Nokia Ad that suggested that Nokias would instead break the floor while the other smartphone screens –specifically iPhones — would break! Clever Ad, but lets not kid ourselves. Smartphones screens are fragile irrespective of the brand. Now you might try to use protective gear like smartphone covers and casings, but what do you do in the event that your Samsung smartphone screen breaks?...

iDroid will be competing against brands like Tecno, iTel , Infinix, Xtel and Injoo that have already gained ground and market share. Their flagship device the iDroid Royal V7 features a 5.5′ IPS QHD display, a 1.3Ghz quad-core processor, 1GB RAM -8GB ROM, a 13MP back camera, Dual SIM, 4G speeds and a 20150 mAH battery all wrapped up in a 145g – 7.9mm design. They have other phones like the iDroid Tango and tablets like the iDroid Play and iDroid Mini....

This follows the Chinese companies buyout of IBM’s low-end server business for $2.3 billion and Motorola from Search giant Google at just $2.91 billion last month. Now the PC maker is turning to Africa to bootstrap its smartphone business which it hopes will offset dwindling PC sales. The company will sell models of data-enabled phones including the Vibe X and S930 in Nigeria starting in the first week of March, Graham Braum, Beijing-based Lenovo’s general manager for Africa, said in a Feb....

Do you want to know where you can make large Mobile money transactions, access promotions, consult customer care, buy genuine phones and internet devices such as iPads. May be you are upcountry and you want to know where Orange Uganda (Now Africell) shops are located. Here we show you a list of all Africell Uganda Shops. (This list includes only official Africell shops and not dealerships)

In Nigeria alone, over the past 12 months, the social network has experienced a 1042% increase in the number of classifieds published on MOBOfree.com , with more than 500 000 active listings on platform in Nigeria only. Over the same period, the number of registered users of MOBOfree.com in Uganda increased by more than 1555%, resulting in a 5548% increase in the number of classifieds published on MOBOfree.com in Uganda....

This development will allow the Telecom operator to be fully in-charge of the data infrastructure right from Kampala to its global submarine network. In a press release published on PC Tech Magazine Byron Clatterbuck, Chief Commercial Officer at SEACOM, was very optimistic about this development; To enable service provision in Kampala and the Kampala metro, SEACOM Uganda will deploy one of the Points of Presence (PoPs) within the capital at Airtel House and the other location is to be confirmed shortly....

When we founded BigEye.ug, I wrote 99 percent of the articles that appeared on that website, at least for the first three months. I must confess, I had no prior background writing Entertainment articles, I had not the slightest idea on how to source those articles, yet those articles I wrote in those months set the foundation for the popularity of www.bigeye.ug as a website. However, looking back, I have a couple of regrets....

According to the App description on the Google Playstore, the App will feature; – All the latest news as it happens, features, spotlights & opinions- all in one place. – Set text size to suit your preferences – Report feature to send stories and photos directly to us – Fully Searchable articles (including week old stories) – Fully Cached articles for offline reading – Share stories on Facebook, Twitter, Email and all other preinstalled applications – Direct link to our Facebook & Twitter pages – A night mode to enable you enjoy the app in the dark Perhaps one of the unique features we find cool is that you can download all your content at one go, switch off your internet and enjoy it at your comfort offline....

To be fair, we must mention that there are some unscrupulous manufacturers who intentionally produce sub-par phones. In as much as they fall under this price bracket, we may not feature them. We will try and focus on the mainstream brands and devices that you can easily get at your local store or online. Wiko Lenny 4 Plus Probably the wildest card in this list, for its price, Wiko Lenny 4 Plus sure packs a punch....

The Phone spots features such as Wi-Fi Tethering, cut, copy and paste, 3G connectivity, Gmail/Yahoo/Email Client, Bluetooth for Easy sharing of Files, Wireless FM Radio, Audio and Video Recording and Playback with multiple supported formats which are all zipped in this seemingly low-end device. However, among all the bells and whistles included on the phone, it disappointingly lacks Whatsapp app. Most of the readers have been wondering why the Tecno T630 does not have Whatsapp, yet the device comes with a host of Productivity and Social Apps like Facebook and Twitter....

In the latest Bond movie, Skyfall, James talks of how it only takes a computer to rig a Ugandan (African) election. Whether the 2007 Kenya elections were rigged or not, that is an issue for another day but technically speaking, technology has become integral part of our daily lives; right from the speaking alarm clock mobile app to M-Pesa mobile money service. Today, 4th March 2013, Kenyans vote a president to the highest office in the land and here is why technology takes the center position in the 2013 Kenya elections....

Under the theme “Come Get Wowed” The Expo ran from 17th – 20th of October attracting large numbers of people. Orange out did themselves showing some awesome products and services in a very beautiful set up. Just in case you missed the Expo, here is a quick recap. There was the “Future Booth” where Orange showed the “Nikomimi BrainWave Controled Ears”, the “Epson Movero” Multimedia glasses, the Sony Smart Watch, the Yamaha Flat Speakers and The Ink Case that wowed many....

Tablets were super popular a few years ago before smartphone displays started becoming a lot bigger, encroaching into their niche. There sure must have been a reason for this popularity, right? So what are tablets good for? What do tablets do better than smartphones? Before we get into it, a little backstory. Tablets came into existence back when phones were tiny and rather limited in functionality. Smartphones were still in their infancy and 2....

We already had a Beginner’s Guide on features, speeds and specifications and How you may purchase the HDMI cable, so let’s take a look at how much use you can put to your TV HDMI ports. Connecting PS/Xbox Console to TV With your HDMI cable handy, the steps to follow are rather simple and easy to execute. Turn off the TV and console system, and disconnect them from the power supply....