The world’s fastest growing mobile phone brand, Infinix has taken the wraps off its latest Infinix Hot 6 and unveiled it on the Ugandan market, staying true to its commitment of building cutting-edge technology and fashionably designed mobile devices while integrating fashion and technology.

The Infinix Hot 6 combines latest in technology and lifestyle aspects using the latest design technologies like the 6 Inch 18:9 HD+ Infinity display which allows the user to view more content on their screens, the latest XOS 3.3 Hummingbird built around Android 8.0 Oreo (Go Edition) which is well optimized to give you a smooth experience on the Hot 6 plus a massive 4000mAh battery with a standby time of over 2 days and also comes with quick charge. It comes with 1GB/2GB RAM and 16GB ROM

#PlayItLiveIt
The Hot6 puts more focus on the mobile sound of the device hence the slogan #PlayItLiveIt. The Hot 6 incorporates dual Dirac 3D Stereo Surrounding speakers for an immersive audio experience, carries a 13MP + 5MP and also has a fast fingerprint scanner for security purposes as well as Face Unlock which allows you to unlock your phone by scanning your face.
Amongst the key advantages of Android Oreo Go Edition are a seamless but fast user experience plus enhanced data experience.

The Hot 6 will be available in Sandstone Black, Blush Gold, Bordeaux Red and Sapphire Blue. It is available at all Infinix Branded shops near you at only UGX 463,000.

YouTube Music, Google’s most direct competitor to Spotify and Apple Music is coming with “a reimagined mobile app” and a new desktop player, both of them designed specifically for music. Music discovery is literally front and centre in the new YouTube Music, with the app’s home screen dynamically recommending new listening based on your history, location, and activity.

YouTube will combine all the official versions of songs with access to “thousands” of related playlists, remixes, covers, live versions, and of course, music videos. Google’s AI mastery is also being integrated into YouTube Music, with the promise that the app will discover songs either by lyrics or just a general description like “that hipster song with the whistling.”

With YouTube Music, listeners can access high-quality Art Tracks of your music (delivered by CD Baby), as well as videos you’ve uploaded to your own channel and any videos your fans have created using your music. For YouTube Red subscribers, this content is accessible ad-free and can be played while offline. For all other YouTube Music users, videos and music tracks are ad-supported. As an artist, CD Baby’s partnership with YouTube Music does NOT prevent you from uploading the same songs to your own YouTube channel. We’re simply making sure that YouTube Music users can hear your whole catalogue of music in high-quality audio.

YouTube Music will be a direct match to all the major music-streaming platforms already available, costing $9.99 for the premium version, which adds background listening, downloads, and an ad-free experience to the free option. Anyone who already has a Google Play Music subscription gets YouTube Music as part of that membership. Play Music isn’t going away yet, though it’s hard to see what future purpose there will be to Google sustaining two services and apps that overlap to quite such a degree.

The $11.99 YouTube Premium gets you everything inside YouTube Music plus access to the YouTube Originals library of video content. Google promises it’ll expand the Originals selection with “more, bigger original series and movies,” including comedies, dramas, reality series, and action adventure shows from the UK, Germany, France, Mexico, and other countries. With YouTube Premium, you’ll be free of ads, able to play videos in the background or download them for offline playback.

YouTube Music starts rolling out on Tuesday, May 22nd, to the existing YouTube Red markets, with the small addendum that in South Korea Google will only be offering a $9.99 YouTube Premium service. The other countries named will also get YouTube Music “in the coming weeks.”

Kenyan Mobile operator giant Safaricom is reportedly set to enter the Ugandan and it’s alleged that it shall do so through the AFRINET card.

Recently, the Daily Monitor reported that competent investors were being sourced to take over the troubled Uganda Telecom company and further reported that government has up to May 26th to find a suitable investor.

Noticeably, AFRINET which is allegedly Safaricom’s proxy handed in a bid to buy Uganda Telecom. According to their website, Afrinet Telecom Limited is a Kenyan based technology company that offers a variety of services with their main being Internet services and one of their partners is Safaricom.

Last year, Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore revealed that the Kenyan based phone operator, is planning cross-border expansion for the first time, into the untapped market for ecommerce and mobile payments.

Mr Collymore said Safaricom, would initially target its east African neighbours, but is also considering west Africa. They’ve not come out to affirm the allegations of their planned entry to the Ugandan market but have it mind according to their CEO.

The company’s market capitalisation reached $10.5bn on August 29 2017 after its share price hit an all-time high of Ks27.25 but this has slipped by 9 per cent in the stock market sell-off after the supreme court nullified the result of last month’s presidential election.

It should also be noted that this is not the only way Safaricom is trying to enter Uganda as reports indicate that Little Cab, the Telecom’s flagship car hailing service is set to launch in Uganda soon.

Troubled telecommunications company Uganda Telecom has been on the table of controversies and struggles with rumors of a sale out and the pulling out of majority shareholders. These events, twists and turns have continued to put the state-owned telecom company in jeopardy.

The Ugandan Cabinet announced that it was in preparations of finding a capable investor to revive the State-owned Uganda Telecom (UTL) to upgrade its network and as well revamp its long lost glory.

The decisions comes in after details emerged that the company is choking on debts which reporeadly include UGX22.244 billion with government regulatory body of the communications sector; Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) arising from unpaid spectrum fees, UGX8 billion in interconnection fees to MTN, UGX58.424 billion in accumulated tax to government revenue collection agency, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) for the period between May 2015 – December 2015.

This was due to the fact that Libyan Post Telecommunications and IT Holding Company (LPTIC) the highest shareholders with 62% shares pulled out leaving the firm in a cramble.

Among other companies interested in taking over Uganda Telecom include Mauritius Telecom, Hamilton Telecom who have been front runners, Telecel Global, Baylis Consortium and Teleology.

Uganda Communications Commissions (herein referred to as Commission or UCU), has threatened to suspend the license of the telecom giant for breach of some of the regulations that were issued by the Commission and the terms of its license agreement and the law.

In a letter dated 17th May 2018, addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of Africell Uganda Limited, The Executive Director of the Commission, Godfrey Mutabazi, in a letter titled “Notice to show cause why Africell Uganda LTD PIP and PSP license should not be suspended for breach of directive against selling sim cards in ungazetted places”, threatens that the commission will be suspending the license of Africell Uganda within 60 days unless the company shows reasons why it should not be suspended.

Africell, in the letter, has been faulted for not adhering to the directives of UCC one of them being laid down in two letters published on the 7th and 8th May 2018 which barred telecommunications companies from selling sim cards through hawkers, street vendors and street agents. Telecommunication companies were also required to follow certain procedures in order to register their subscribers which Africell has allegedly violated.

The commission according to the letter received numerous complaints about the violations by Africell, which it is basing on to suspend their license.

The telecommunication company has been conditioned to present its defence to UCC, indicating their reasoning as to why their license should not be suspended. The letter adds that “…should the Commission does not receive sufficient representations…the commission shall proceed to suspend Africell Uganda Limited’s PIP and PSP license”.

The suspension gets its legal backing from the Uganda Commissions Act 2013 which empowers UCC with the discretion to suspend a license of a company that does not comply with its terms and the law.

Early this year, Tecno unleashed the Camon X along with it’s elder brother the X Pro onto the market revolutionising the camera game.  ]After the Camon CM, TECNO released their next Camon Flagship, the Camon X Pro.

Camon X Pro comes with an 18:9 display which takes centre stage and a camera that has been taunted to be like nothing we have seen yet. While the Camon X offers quite some interesting specs to look at, the Pro version blows all of its specs out of the water.

It comes with a solid 6-inch FHD+ screen with 2.5D glass display, Android 8.1 Ore-powered device impresses even more in its internal memory configurations and camera sensors and a massive battery of 3750mAh with fast charging capabilities (MediaTek Pump Express). In this particular monster of a phone, Tecno has slapped a microSD card slot onto the Camon X Pro for users that will still like to expand the memory available (up to 128GB).

Because Camon continues to command such great respect when it comes to photography, the Camon X Pro flaunts a 24MP CLEAR SELFIE. I only put that in capital letters because it was the only I could shout it out.

The Camon X Pro will be going for only UGX 940,000 and you can get it from Tecno branded outlets in Town especially Kampala Road!

Tecno Camon X Pro Detailed Specs

The Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters has questioned the Executive Director of NITA James Ssaka on his receipt of 928 million shillings from the Land Fund. The commission learnt that Ssaka received the money in 2015 for land which was worth 15 million shillings in 2003.

Evidence presented before the seven-member Commission shows how government officials at the Uganda Land Commission (ULC) in connivance with businessmen and influential people in government offices fraudulently acquired billions of Shillings from the land fund.
The land fund was established under Section 41 of the Land Act to bring to an end the long-standing conflict in regard to multiple interests on land in the counties of Bugangayizi and Buyaga, Bunyoro Subregion.

Today the Nita-U Boss appeared before the committee of other the same. Here’s a video of the proceedings;

Following the launch of the Shell EasyGo card in February 2018, the card has attracted a lot of attention from our customers with massive sign up and usage. Vivo Energy Uganda has made the card even more convenient and easy by providing an online sign-up alternative for customers who may not have the time to go to our Shell service stations to sign up.

Customers can now conveniently sign up for the Shell EasyGo card directly from the EasyGo portal http://easygo.ug/ and have it delivered to their preferred Shell service station for pick up.

The EasyGo card is an all-around Visa-enabled payment solution that allows you to manage your fuel, service your car, shop at our service stations, other Visa outlets and online. Customers can enjoy cashback for every transaction made at Shell service station forecourts, as well as amazing discounts for promotions.  The card can easily be topped up with mobile money and cardholders can get SMS alerts after every transaction.

“Since we launched the Shell EasyGo card on the premise of providing convenient and relevant solutions to our customers, we are making it easy for our customers to get the card using the online card sign up platform. The EasyGo card was developed because of the growing trend of cashless and online transactions in Uganda,” said Vivo Energy Uganda’s Managing Director, Gilbert Assi.

The card enables customers to buy fuel, service their cars, shop at Shell service stations, buy or refill their gas, and eat at our partner restaurants like KFC, Café Pap, Prunes, Pizza Hut and Java House. It also allows them to shop online and pay for goods and services at any outlet all over the world that accepts Visa payments.

For even more convenience, EasyGo card owners can;

• Top up via Mobile Money by dialling *233*40# or at any Shell service station countrywide

• Use the EasyGo card at Shell service stations countrywide

• Receive an SMS for every transaction they make, so they can track usage

• Securely transact with the ‘chip and pin’ security feature in the card

• Access a self-service online portal https://www.thecardservicesonline.com/ugncustptl/ where they can view their real-time account balances, transaction statements and also change/reset their pin, block or mark the card as lost whenever they need to.

This means that the task of planning and budgeting for fuel for individuals and for commercial motorists, including drivers, boda-boda riders, taxi operators, and fleet owners is made easier. It further removes the need for motorists to carry cash for fuel and shopping, thus reducing the risks that come with carrying cash.

Press Release from Vivo Energy Uganda

The Uganda police have announced the launch of two Mobile Applications known as the ‘Lost and Found App’ and ‘Access to Police Station app’. The announcement was made this morning by AIGP Asan Kasingye at the Police headquarters in Naguru at a press briefing.

The application also known as the “Mobi App” provides users with details about the Uganda Police. Information about lost and found property, Police stations near you with respective contacts of officers, as well as the Police leadership structure.

In his remarks, AIGP Asan Kasingye noted that; “The Uganda Police Force has a constitutional mandate of protecting life and property. Actually, one of the rights we are born with and is universal is the right to property. Recently, we have realized that due very many reasons, the rate at which the Police is protecting this right, leave alone recover the property & bring the perpetrators to justice is reducing”

In 2006, the UPF developed a 5-year sector strategic plan for statistics to operationalize the above database systems. Limited progress has been made with regard to its implementation and as a result of the UPF still has no central information management system. The collection, analysis, dissemination of statistics have remained poor and uncoordinated.

He further noted that “This could be explained by many factors which include, advanced technology that is unmatched with Police innovation, lack of trust & confidence in the Police by the Public, poor investigations, etc. As a result, quite often than not, many Police stations are littered with many unclaimed properties or the owners cannot adduce enough evidence to prove that the property belongs to them.”

The Apps are set to tackle the following;

• Improve rights of people
• Reduce the incidence of property crime
• Quick and timely reunification of property to their owners
• Improve professionalism, discipline through maximizing technology
• Improve access to police services for which the public are entitled
• Improve access to information. The public must be informed of the property and existence of police station in their locations for ease of access to police services
• Improving openness and Transparency through efficient service delivery
• Improve value for money
• Gender Equality
• Redress i.e. if the promised standard of service is not delivered, the public must be offered a full explanation and a speedy and effective remedy and improve the image of the Police.

Source: Uganda Police