Author: Smart Megwai

Don’t be a surprise when you notice your iPhone keeps slowing down despite its amazing features. It is perfectly normal. Your iPhone may also freeze altogether. Obviously, on older phones this is more common, as their hardware is less well placed to handle more modern software and applications. Very often,…

iiDENTIFii, a market leader in digital biometric identity verification, is pleased to announce that it has won the “four-month-long” KPMG Private Enterprise Tech Innovator Africa Awards. The company, in a press release, said “Our team has worked hard to make innovation a consistent thread throughout the business, and we are…

At an event today in India, Google announced it has removed more than 2,000 personal loan apps from its Play Store after they were found to be in violation of its policies. Saikat Mitra was at the event in New Delhi on Thursday. The Senior Director and Head of Trust…

Google Play Games, the platform that brings Android games to PCs, is now available to all users under an open beta in South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia. First launched in December 2021, Google Play Games for PC allows you to enjoy all of your favourite Android games…

Kenya’s telecom giant, Safaricom, has declared Cynthia Karuri-Kropac as the new Chief Enterprise Business Officer, effective September 1, 2022. The former director of IoT technologies at AT&T is to replace Joseph Wanjohi, who has been acting since May. The new hire comes as Sylvia Mulinge left Safaricom for MTN Uganda.…

Nokia Kenya just announced the successful pilot of the 4G and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network slicing in the country. This is in partnership with Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecom. This announcement comes as Nokia, in March last year, announced that it was powering East Africa’s first 5G commercial services…

TikTok has confirmed it is experimenting with a new “Nearby” content feed for users to browse local content. The test, which is limited in scope, is being tested with select users in Southeast Asia. Users who are part of the limited test will see the new feed tab displayed alongside…

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, recently rolled out Meta accounts and Meta Horizon profiles as part of its virtual reality hardware and software experiences. The company made the announcement on Tuesday on its Oculus Blog noting that users can now register on an Oculus headset using its new…

We reported in March this year that Pod News received an 84-page presentation produced by YouTube, planning to launch a dedicated page for podcasts. A report by 9to5Google confirms the platform has added a dedicated page for podcasts, with TechCrunch noting that the new podcast destination is now live for…

The Meta-owned photo-sharing platform is reportedly working on a new feature called “Candid Challenges”. As per reports, an Instagram spokesperson has also confirmed that the feature is an ‘internal prototype’ but no more details have been revealed. The new feature sounds familiar to “BeReal” — a French social media app…

Twitter today confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing a new profile badge for accounts who have verified their phone numbers. The goal of the experiment, according to the report, is to “allow people to add context to their accounts.” This might be used to ensure that a user who…

Short-form videos are becoming more and more popular, and social media sites such as TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube are all engaged in fierce competition. Even though users can already access the majority of these short videos on their smartphones via the Imternet, Google is moving things forward by making YouTube…

Google says it’s introducing a new feature that automatically adds a watermark to Shorts downloaded from YouTube Studio. The change is being made to ensure that “viewers can see that the content you’re sharing across platforms can be found on YouTube Shorts” if the content is posted to another short-form…

Google has announced it is introducing several updates to Search to make it easier for users to find helpful content mad. The goal is to reduce the amount of low-quality or duplicate content that ranks high in search results. The new update is targeted specially on “SEO-first” content, which according…

Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, the construction company that built the second longest bridge in Africa, today announced that its first agro-processing activity, a cashew processing plant located in Epe, Lagos State, will be commissioned on the 10th of September 2022. The company, which is primarily known for its structural engineering…

If you regularly use Google Meet instead of Zoom for online meetings, then it is possible to track the attendance of those who were at the meeting, including the time they joined and when they exited. The feature was launched earlier this year as the need for virtual meetings arose…

WhatsApp is an instant-messaging application owned by Meta Platforms that supports chat-based services (which the company claims is secured by end-to-end encryption), voice, and video call features. There is a separate WhatsApp Business application for SMEs who wish to have a business presence on the platform and communicate more efficiently…

Google appears to be developing a feature that allows you to “Play” a game directly from search results. When you search for a video game, Google’s search results will contain a “Play” button that will instantly launch the game. Before now, if you search for a game the result displays…

LinkedIn has launched several features to make the platform more engaging using pictures and videos. In a blog post, Keren Baruch, Product Lead for Creator Strategy at LinkedIn, noted that the platform has seen a 20% increase (year-over-year) in people adding visual content in their posts on LinkedIn. “We want…

Google announced in June that it was upgrading the Google Duo experience to include all Google Meet features and bringing the two “separate” video calling services together into a single solution. “The upgrade,” which started to roll out in July, “gives everyone access to new features like scheduling and joining…