The 2018 Winter Olympics are just around the corner, starting on February 9th and running through the 25th. And just a week ago, Samsung produced more than 4,000 special edition Galaxy Note 8s to hand out to Olympics participants for FREE. Today, in anticipation of the upcoming games, Samsung has officially released the PyeongChang 2018…
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Snapchat is trying to remain relevant by keeping up with its innovative stance by simply taking a step out of its walled garden with a new feature that will enable the sharing of Stories with other users outside of the main app. If this all sounds a little familiar, that’s because…
Here is the quiz: What do Spotify, Minecraft and Candy Crush Saga have in common? Guess what? They were all made in Sweden. Skype was co-founded by Swedes and SoundCloud started in Stockholm before moving to its current home in Berlin. Sweden is home to Europe’s largest tech companies and its capital…
Ktulu Nominees Private Limited is a Zimbabwean investment group that has taken up a 50 percent share in Dr Dish Private Limited following its recent break-up with Kwese TV. Ktulu Nominees, representing private family interests of prominent lawyer and founder of Titan Law firm, Gerald Mlotshwa, has emerged as the single largest shareholder…
Africa’s biggest mobile operator, MTN, is aiming to become Africa’s biggest digital bank, leveraging scale, network, brand, infrastructure and distribution. MTN is seeking to challenge rival Vodacom as Africa’s biggest digital bank by tripling its customer numbers within three years. The ambitious business strategy was revealed by MTN CEO Rob Shuter yesterday during the…
Even though Samsung introduced the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, which is still fairly new, but potential buyers are already looking ahead to what’s next. Samsung recently confirmed the Galaxy S9 release date is next month, and now we’ve received even more exciting information for potential buyers. While reports and rumors have swirled for months, it looks…
Recent reports have suggested that the upcoming ‘LG G7’, which was expected to launch at Mobile World Congress 2018, will not only be rebranded, but also effectively redesigned from scratch and pushed back to April at the earliest. LG’s smartphone division has been a drag on the company’s bottom line for several years, but it…
Oh my word, technology is just blowing things up. This is pretty massive, The 2019 Toyota Avalon is a massive upgrade for the refined bigger brother of the Toyota Camry. The 2019 Avalon is also the first Toyota to support Apple CarPlay, which is huge news. During the 2018 Detroit Auto…
Right timing, so if you were just wondering on what to buy for your kid as a present, hot on the heels of Switch, Nintendo has recently announced its latest innovation: Nintendo Labo. To cut a long story short, it’s a set of cardboard kits that turn your Switch into, well, anything. The new…
EcoFarmer is Econet’s own mobile farming platform. EcoFarmer was launched in 2013 as a weather indexed insurance business. Following launch, EcoFarmer enabled farmers to insure their crops against the risk of false rainfall, excessive rainfall and excessive dry days for as little as $2.50 per year for $25 worth of…
The majority of people use Samsung smartphones and one other thing they share in common with just any other smartphone user – is on how to free space on their devices. Therefore, in this guide that we have prepared will show you how to free up space on your Samsung…
Movies Anywhere is a new service that links together iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and Vudu, but how does it all work? Don’t worry, that’s why here at Innovation Village have got you covered. This new streaming movie service called Movies Anywhere, and it almost sounds too good to true. It doesn’t…
Here’s everything you need to know, right now, about Apple’s iOS 11.2.5 update for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apple’s iOS 11.2.5 update remains in beta for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, but a release should be getting close now that the company’s released its sixth beta to developers and the public. The…
This is a fact, not many topics keep Android users on their toes as much as big, feature-rich updates. And with the Android 8.0 Oreo update on the horizon, many android users have so many questions that still needs answers, considering that Android 8.0 was released last year in August…
Many of us are Huawei smartphone users and fans but there is one thing really annoying about using a Huawei phone apart from not really grasping the water and dust proof technology (that we have gotten used to anyways). It is on how slow they are in updating their firmware,…
Huawei reveals next-gen quick charge technology, faster by ten minutes. Super smart, super fast, super cool, super safe. As smartphones have physically grown in size, adding ever more power-hungry displays and battery-sapping features, charging times have steadily increased. Fast charging technologies, however, have seen these times tumble again, letting you keep…
Kwesé TV started the #GoGettaz competition for entrepreneurs on 18 August 2017, a challenge to inspire entrepreneurship launched on win.kwese.com and the Facebook page of Mr Masiyiwa which has over 3 million followers, many of them aspiring African entrepreneurs. Kwesé TV is holding semi-finals of the #GoGettaz entrepreneurship competition in Nairobi, Kenya…
Samsung’s Artificial Intelligence capabilities may be shown off with the Galaxy S9 at MWC 2018. Samsung is said to be on the verge of completing its first neural processing units (NPUs), also known as AI chips. These would feature in its major upcoming smartphones and could help differentiate its handsets…
Apple has faced intense competition in the China smartphone market for quite some time and has only gotten fiercer in recent years. Companies such as Xiaomi, OPPO, Vivo, and Huawei are aggressively attacking this market by trying to offer devices that are jam-packed with whiz-bang features while selling them at…
WOW! This year’s Olympics participants in PyeongChang, South Korea, ain’t just lucky but blessed because Samsung has recently produced more than 4,000 special edition Galaxy Note 8s to hand out to Olympics participants for FREE. The device comes with a white rear, white S-Pen, gold accents, and a custom software…