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Former Android boss and Co-Founder is leaving Google

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Boses Muhinda
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Andy Rubin who was the former boss of the Android division from 2005 when it was bought by Google, up to 2013 told his colleagues that he would be leaving the company.

Rubin joined Google when the it bought Android in 2005. In 2013, he left the Android division and went on to head the company’s robotic division .

According to the Wall Street Journal, Rubin is starting
a hardware incubator for startups.

In a statement, Google CEO Larry Page said, “I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s next. WithAndroid he created something truly remarkable—with a billion plus happy users. Thank you.”

Image credit: Google
Source: WSJ

Kaymu fosters entrepreneurship in Uganda with Kaymu Varsity programme

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Boses Muhinda
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Kaymu Uganda continues its commitment to online business sensitization through the ‘Kaymu Varsity’ program. Kaymu is establishing itself in the industry as a major player in the market; by launching its first series of workshops in Uganda, to help empower not only the sellers on its platform but all stakeholders, such as KACITA (Kampala City Traders Association), buyers, sellers and Government.

Kaymu Varsity aims to provide sellers in Uganda with the skills and tools necessary to start selling online with little up-front investment. With the internet penetration levels increasing in the country, Kaymu has taken upon itself the mantle to help the sellers maximize their revenues and bring their products closer to the targeted clients.

The program comprises six sessions which cover the basics of Kaymu, order processing, payment methods, logistics, social media strategy and the seller centre. As well as receiving in-depth information about the subjects covered, participants also have the opportunity to ask any questions they might have about the platform.

Mrs Marion Mbabazi Head of Seller Management Kaymu and Mr. Alvin katto Deputy Country Manager Kaymu
Mrs Marion Mbabazi Head of Seller Management Kaymu and Mr. Alvin katto Deputy Country Manager Kaymu

Since its launch in Uganda, the Kaymu community has benefited the sellers on the portal in many ways; it has improved the playing field for smaller sellers by opening up a wider market range for their products, and it has reduced their costs of operations (sellers can, for instance, stock their goods at home and sell online without having to incur costs like warehouse rent).

Kaymu also continues its commitment to innovation with the recent launch of its mobile app (available on Android and IOS), as the company seeks to capture Uganda’s growing smartphone market. Mobile marketing is redefining online shopping and Kaymu aims to be at the forefront of this innovation by providing the best shopping experience on-the-go. The Kaymu platform is designed to make online shopping easier and more convenient.

Happy Birthday Internet!

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GURU8 Staff
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Today the internet makes 45 years since its invention on 29 October 1989. The first electronic message between two computers was sent on 29th October 1989.

Today many Internet lovers and societies are appreciating the importance of the Internet and some Internet societies have held community meetups and social media hashtags to discuss what they want the internet to be. Our own Internet Society of Uganda is holding a Twitter discussion.

You can share your love and wishes for the internet using hashtags like #InternetDay

Happy BirthDay Internet! May you live to be that thing I can’t live without! May you be free from surveillance!


Google Students Club of Makerere launched

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Boses Muhinda
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Google Student Ambassadors organised an event to launch the Google Students club of Makerere.
During the event which was hosted at GBL lab at the College of Computing and Information Sciences.

Power Mukisa a Google Student Ambassador shared about  various  Google Apps and lighten up the mood by making all of us do the Wobble  dance.

The info sessions were rather interactive and involved multiple Q &  A sessions where the participants got Google branded goodies.

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Google Goodies

The sessions emphasised digital marketing ie. Google Ads and Google Appscript.

Joshua Okello from Cipher256 (creators of WinSenga) had a brief session talking about IPA (Innovation Prize Africa) a competition which rewards startups with $150,000 in startup capital.

The founder of DoneDeal Uganda shared her experience with Google Apps like Adwords, Analytics, Gmail in her startup. She urged students to always use Google to learn.

Victoria Mbabazi the Makerere GSA shared about Google App Script and how to use App script to increase the power of Google Apps.

Nicholas Kamanzi told the participants about Google X and how he is searching for crazy moonshots in Uganda.

The participants were split into groups randomly basing on colours they had chosen to answer quizes and the winning team Blue took home a prize.

I was impressed by the new Google Student Ambassador team (Victoria Mbabazi & Power Mukisa) that shared and organised the event in a Googly way. It was such a jolly event.

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MTN will show you your airtime and Data balance in one request

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Boses Muhinda
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Checking for my data bundle balance on MTN Uganda wasn’t  process I loved until recently. I had to cram a line of USSD codes (*150*1*4*1#) which sometimes didn’t work.
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But just recently, MTN shows me my data balance together with my airtime balance with one request.  All I have to do is dail *150# and am done.

I found this interesting because I don’t have to enter 2 separate USSD codes considering that the USSD code to show me my data bundle is usually friendly to my imaginary friends from Mars.

Thanks MTN I will now keep track of my airtime and data bundle balances easily.

MUK THRU app review! Making you Makerere Life easy

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Boses Muhinda
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MUK Thru is a new app targeting students of Makerere University. Its an app whose aim is to bring information closer to students in way students find cool, fast and convenient.

MukThru showcases feed from all the Makerere University website including its micro-sites into one unified feed, categorized into News, Academics, Sports, Gossip.
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There is a unified link area to help any student when it comess to finding online resources in the university such the Muele (Makerere’s E-learning platform), academic registrar’s websites, student results which reduces the hustle of cramming the multiple disorganised url structures.

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The Navigate Feature of the app has maps and directions to several buildings within the University along with other buildings such as hostels which are categorised according to their respective locations.

MukThru also has an Event feature with links and information on Events that are organized by the university.
MUK THRU events

Another feature i loved was the performance tracer which enables students track their CGPA as they advance through several semesters. You are also able to set a password for this particular section since you don’t want every one accessing your results.

The app sends push alerts and refreshes the news feed after particular period of time which you set in the settings menu.

We found the app design nice and simple, and you will not find a lot of clutter and everything is where it should be, however the choice of light sky blue for the menus didn’t please me.

MukThru was designed by a group of software engineering students at Makerere University in their 2nd year. These include Atwine Allan, Ainebyoona Evans, Kayaga Andrew under the name Infrasys Uganda.

We must commend these guys for simplifiying the lives of many especially freshers.
Feel free to download the app from the Google Play Store

 

Google rolls out new Nexus Devices! The 6, 9 and Player!

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Boses Muhinda
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Google has now officially announced additions to its Nexus line of devices to bring a new Nexus 6, Nexus 8, Nexus player. This family comes together with the new version of Android dubbed “Lollipop”.

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The Nexus 6 has an enormous 6 inch Quad HD display screen, 2.7Ghz,Quad core Snapdragon 805 processor, Arsenal 420 GPS, dual front facing speakers and a 13 megapixel HDR+ Camera. It will even give you 6 hours of use from 15 minutes of charging that’s power by 3320mAh battery. Its the first device running Android L.
This phablet comes with alot of juice and power but this size is quite big and consumers will definitely complain.

Nexus 9
Nexus 9

Google’s new tablet the Nexus 9 has an 8.9 inch IPS LCD display, a 64 bit processor and HTC gave it front facing boomsound speakers. It comes with a rather than bezel. Pre orders for the Nexus 9 will begin on November 9th, starts at $399 for the base 16GB WiFi model; $479 for the 32GB WiFi; and $599 for a 32GB LTE variant

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Google also announced a Nexus Player console which is supposed bring apps, games for your TV and it’s comes with a elegantly designed remote that comes with voice search.

This entire family comes with Google’s latest version of Android “Lollipop” that comes with better and beautiful multitasking, heads up notifications and more.

Airtel TRACE music star! Use your phone to become Africa’s next star

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Boses Muhinda
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In a promotion dubbed Airtel TRACE music star, Airtel Uganda & Trace launched a new service that lets subscribers use their mobile phones to join a music talent search competition by dailing 162.

This a rather better way because it uses the Country’s commonest piece of technology to reach youth.
Airtel TRACE music star comes in two languages; english and Luganda.

All a user has to do is dail 162 and follow the prompts. Participants will be given a code which they can share with their friends who can vote for their friends.

Every minute you call in will cost you 7 shillings per second. Meaning that you can use 500/- for a minute which is a smaller cost compared to what you would pay to go to an audition

Different categories will have different judges where groups participants will be judged by Washington the producer, Rappers will be judged by Gnl zamba, ladies by Sanyu FM’s fatboy, boys by Cindy and Participants aged 35yrs and older will be judged by Alex Ndawula. Bugembe and Chameleon will come to help with the judges once in a while.

September and November will have heavy activations, where judges will get the best 10 best per category in December and they will compete until the Grand Finale on January 14th for Uganda will have the grande finale where winners will win 100million and fly with the other best 8 groups to be mentored by Akon where they get a recording contract for one year.

At the press conference at Airtel Headquarters, Arindam Chakrabarty, Airtel’s Chief Comercial Officer told press that Airtel is proud to have 2 winners in Airtel’s past Rising stars winners in the Uganda Cranes, and 2 females on the female cranes team….. Airtel is proud to promote talent in Africa, he also shared that Uganda is one of the most Youthful nations in Africa.

Below is a pictorial summary of what went down

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Visit tracemusicstar.com for more details and TOS

 

Garage48 Kampala 2014 wants to see what you will build in 48 hours

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Boses Muhinda
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Garage48 is a hackathon where developers, designers and the business guys are supposed to turn an idea into a working prototype or product.

Outbox is organizing Garage48 Kampala 2014 scheduled for 24th to 26th October, an event where participants with different skills, ranging from software development to design, marketing, sales and entrepreneurship turn an idea into a working prototype in 48 hours.

Participants are expected to register in 4 categories; developers, designers, marketeers and project managers.

A ticket is at a fee of 40,000/= (16 USD) while students pay 20,000/= (8 USD) to take care of their food snacks and drinks. Payments will be made after your participation is confirmed.

The last Garage48 Kampala was held in 2011 with up to 70 participants present, sponsored by Google, Nokia and MTN. Previous winners and prototypes from Garage48 include Somesha, Zword, Ninja Kids, MyTicket, and more awesome products as shown in this post.

[quote_box_center]About Garage48

Garage48 event series started in Estonia in April 2010 and have expanded to other countries in Northern Europe and Africa since then. All Garage48 events are held in English and have ~100 international participants. Participants have different skills, ranging from software development to design, marketing, sales and entrepreneurship.

People are often afraid to start their own project or business. Common problems include lack of know-how and co-founders, lack of money, unknown risks etc. Garage48 is here to change that mindset and show that it’s all about positive “let’s do it” attitude, creative team members and a motivating deadline.
Less talk, more action!

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For any inquiries, send an email to sopio@outbox.co.ug or call +256 7555 10000
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Microsoft unveils Windows 10, Its new with an old Feeling

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Boses Muhinda
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Microsoft shocked most of us during today’s press conference when Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore announced Windows 10 rather than 9 which everyone expected. Well the leaked screenshots of the Operating system were on point this time considering that Microsoft didn’t forget its die hard fans who longed for the good old start menu.

Windows 10 comes with a design that integrates most of the good old features like a start menu in the corner and windowed metro apps. The Start Menu still has tiles together with a search box and a list of favourites. This might seem cool but its 2 year late and some of us are already used to the full-screen metro start.

Windows 10 is going to be a platform for multiple devices starting from phones, tablets, desktops, laptops and embedded systems but Microsoft won’t give them one User Interface but its giving all devices that come with a Keyboard and 2 in 1s the default start menu and the Store will also open in windowed mode

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A Metro App in a window

Windows 10 will let users re-size metro apps just like other windows. This a relief to some who wanted some of these apps re-sized and besides it solves the problem of users having the feeling of 2 different OS interfaces in one package.

Microsoft announced the snap enhancements feature that lets you fit four apps on the same screen in a quadrant layout, something similar to the snap feature on Mac Os except Microsoft will wants to show you other running programs for additional snapping and suggest open apps to fill the available space on the screen.

They also added a task-view button on the task bar for quick switching between open files and quick access to any desktops you create.

Multiple Desktops
Multiple Desktops

They also borrowed a few leaves from Ubuntu and given users the power to have multiple desktops for different tasks and projects, users will also be able to pick up fro where they left off on each desktop.

The Windows 10 Tech Preview 10 will come in Technical Preview tomorrow through the Windows Insider Program for IT pros and early adopters. Unfortunately there was no word on pricing for windows 10. The full consumer release will be available in Early 2015.

Update: The Technical Preview is now available for download

 

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