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

Twitter now recognizes Swahili, one of East Africa’s most common languages. And that’s poa sana — or as Twitter would tell you, pretty awesome. The recognition comes after a campaign by Kenyans on social media, who regularly used hashtags #SwahiliIsNotIndonesian and #TwitterRecognizeSwahili on the social media platform to demand recognition.

The social media platform now offers translation for the language spoken by tens of millions in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and some parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It’s unclear when Twitter started recognizing Swahili. Before that, it described Swahili tweets as Indonesian and translated them into a mumbo-jumbo (or mambo, in Swahili) of incoherent words.

The social media platform is popular among Africans, who use it to amplify their concerns and create online communities. Africans on Twitter also use it to celebrate their cultures, air their grievances or just share a good joke.

Kenyans are among the most active social media users in Africa. They also use the network to crowd-fund for campaigns and highlight the positive side of Africa. This among other reasons could be the reason Twitter felt the need and pressure to recognize Swahili

Source: CNN

Yesterday evening, Google gave it’s 2018 I/O keynote, a jam-packed event with developers, programmers, Youtubers and tech bloggers in awe and anticipation of the news that Google was to unleash. CEO Sundar Pichai kicked things off by recognizing that the tech industry must always be responsible for the tools and services it creates.

When the event was done, major announcements from new, ambitious Android update on the way, John Legend lending his voice to Google Assistant, to Gmail almost being able to write emails entirely by itself and AI being made a big theme throughout, surely the day was to be what many call ‘LIT’

We gathered at least 5 major announcements that caught our eye and we believe will capture yours too and make you excited as much.

ANDROID P

As Android hits the 10 years mark ever since they made their first OS enabled smartphone, Google is rolling out Android P. It’s got a refreshed look with Key interactions like changing apps which closely are iPhone X-like gestures. Android P indeed shakes up a lot of what we’ve come to know about Google’s mobile OS.

It comes with a digital wellbeing Dashboard that’s meant to plainly show “how you’re spending time on your device, including time spent in apps, how many times you’ve unlocked your phone, and how many notifications you’ve received.” You can even set time limits for individual apps if you want to cut back on compulsively staring at your phone at any moment of downtime.

Android P is coming later this summer, but a public beta is available today for a handful of smartphones from Google, Essential, Sony, Nokia, and more.

GOOGLE MAPS

Google Maps is growing into a full-on social experience and has an integration which also combines the camera, computer vision technology, with Street View that’s squarely targeting Yelp and Foursquare. Maps now let you follow specific neighbourhoods to see new restaurants and business that are trending among other users. And you can even coordinate with friends in real time to make a “shortlist” when choosing a place to eat at.

With the camera/Maps combination, it really looks like you’ve jumped inside Street View.

GOOGLE NEWS

Google’s news app is being overhauled and its editorial focus is now powered largely by AI. The company says “it uses artificial intelligence to analyze all the content published to the web at any moment, and organize all of those articles, videos, and more into storylines. It spots the ones you might be interested in and puts them in your briefing.” News will also deliver “a range of perspectives” to bring you a little bit outside your bubble.

GOOGLE LENS

Because writing text from somewhere could be something really hard, Google yesterday demonstrated a feature called Google Lens that will enable one to point your phone’s camera at text in the real world — say, a written down Wi-Fi password — grab that text, and then paste it into a text field on your smartphone. How smart can that be? Wow!

Google Lens can do things like identify buildings, or even dog breeds, just by pointing your camera at the object in question. It will also be able to identify text. Google Lens still isn’t perfect at identifying precise items of clothing, but Google thinks it can get close enough.

GOOGLE PHOTOS

Google Photos is getting more AI-powered fixes like B&W photo colourization, brightness correction and suggested rotations. A new version of the Google Photos app will suggest quick fixes and tweaks like rotations, brightness corrections or adding pops of colour.

Google wants to become a photo hub and it’s able to woo potential users by offering powerful tools to edit, sort, and modify those photos. Each additional photo Google gets offers it more data and helps them get better and better at image recognition, which in the end not only improves the user experience for Google but also makes its own tools for its services better.

Credits: TechCrunch, The Verge