Kenya’s top telco, Safaricom has announced plans to launch M-Pesa Junior Accounts for young Kenyans between the age of 10 to 18 years. These are individuals who do not have IDs to register a Safaricom line but have access to the network via SIM cards registered under their guardians or parents. “We plan to soon
WhatsApp has announced that you can now add up to 512 people to a WhatsApp Group up from the current 256. The feature will roll out to all users soon. The feature will be a welcome addition for large teams that use WhatsApp as a communication tool or just large communities that have been brought
Kenya’s Minister for ICT, Joe Mucheru has projected a lower cost of internet in the country, following the landing of the new Pakistan and East African Connecting Europe (PEACE) submarine Cable in Mombasa yesterday. He said the new cable will bring faster and stable internet connectivity linking France to Pakistan via the Europe-Asia route and
Google has announced that from 9th November you will likely not be able to access your email without your smartphone nearby. This is after the firm announced that the 2 step verification will now be default to all its millions of users globally. Google originally introduced its effort to auto-enroll users into the two-factor authentication system
Popular messaging application WhatsApp will not function on millions of phones beginning November this year. According to WhatsApp, the application is due for an upgrade that will not be compatible with certain phones and will affect both iPhone and Android users who will not have updated their operating systems by the set date. “WhatsApp will no
Meta will be a new parent company that will preside over Facebook and its services including photo app Instagram, messaging app WhatsApp and its virtual and augmented reality efforts. Facebook says it will start trading under the new stock ticker MVRS on Dec. “In our DNA, we are a company that builds technology to connect
British lawmakers are set to grill Facebook and other tech giants Thursday over how they handle online safety as European efforts to regulate social media companies gain momentum. Representatives from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and TikTok will be questioned by members of a parliamentary committee scrutinizing the British government’s draft online safety legislation. Governments on both
Facebook plans to make a dramatic break from its past by rebranding the company next week, according to a report. Facebook’s founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, plans to talk about the name change at a company event next week but it could be unveiled sooner, reported the Verge, a US tech news website. In a
Facebook Inc’s Instagram said on Monday it is testing a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two outages disrupted the social media giant’s services. The test will run in the United States and will go on for a few months before being rolled out to
The University of Nairobi is among the top 200 institutions in the world for the production of graduates with the skills and knowledge required for the modern workplace. This is according to a September edition of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employability Rankings 2022, which looks at graduate employment processes and outcomes. UoN is placed in the