Sydney Mugerwa

Telegram users up until this point could only delete their own copy of the message history while in normal chat. Only in Telegram's End-to-End Encrypted Secret Chats do we see the self-destruct option that deletes the messages completely from both ends. Not anymore. A Mexican... Read More

Psychologists will gladly tell you that men are hardwired not to ask for directions even if it kills them.  And naturally they will take one wrong turn too many and still not admit they are completely lost. Women on the other hand will smile at... Read More

In this age of internet and connectivity, having a website has become a prerequisite for most companies. An online presence allows a company to interact with clients and fans. Social media has become the go-to platform these days. But at the end of the day,... Read More

Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri and independent researcher Collin Anderson have added their voices to the growing global mistrust for the widely used system of SMS verification via codes sent by SMS which can easily be accessed by telecom service providers. The researchers talking to Reuters... Read More

Passports are travel documents a citizen of one country waves around like a magic wand at the gates of another country to get admittance. Humans being what they are, passports, we are aware are created equal, but as it turns out, some are more equal... Read More

Facebook just took their internet-beaming drone on a successful maiden flight. Aquila is a solar-powered unmanned aircraft weighing in at 500kg, of which over 200kg is taken up by the batteries. The drone has a wingspan equal in size to a commercial airplane and flies... Read More

Telecoms are known to shamelessly cannibalise each other's promotion slogans, only adding a few tweaks here and there. Not that we are judging them; the telco pricewars are a tough business and as they say all is fair in love and war. At the end... Read More

Perhaps nothing can capture the mood over at Uber in Kenya at the moment better than the catchy line from the monster song by Kenyan artiste, Bamboo, when he raps, 'Usilete Compe.' (Do not bring competition). Because surely, competition it is and it has come... Read More

Try to wrap your mind around this: Truly unlimited Internet in Uganda at blistering fast speeds of 6Mbps at a paltry fixed price of UGX 330,000 a month. In addition, the internet bundle has no data caps at all! This means the internet speeds won't... Read More