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Orange Uganda bought by Africell

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GURU8 Staff
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Despite denial of a series of rumours  by a press statement from Orange Uganda denying a buy out by another telecom a few months ago, Orange Uganda has been sold to Africell Holdings company.

This is after the two parties signed an agreement that will give Africell Holdings company an majority shake in Orange Uganda, Much as the this sale as to be approved by concerned bodies and authorities, the company says ” This transaction marks a new step in the Orange Group’s asset portfolio optimisation strategy for which Africa and the Middle-East remain a strategic priority.”

Orange has been in operations since 2006 and it had acquired 630,000 subscribers in the year ending December 2013.

Orange just gave you a ‘Happy hour’ of cheap internet

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Boses Muhinda
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The battle of Internet service providers in Uganda seems to yielding riper fruits for consumers because competition means we get price cuts and more offers. Orange is known for its quality internet hasn’t been been aggressive as its competition when it comes to ridiculously low prices but this time they have come with an offer for the data hungry.

Orange’s new happy hour promo which has been dubbed, Happy hour lets you surf, download, deploy and stream any online content worth 1 Gigabyte of data within an hour.

The only difference is the pricing according to the time you would like to use the service. Using the 1 Gb  within a time cap of an hour any time of the day will set you back, 5,000/- and nocturnals will pay 2,500/- and utilize the happy hour between midnight and 6am.

offer data price validity
Happy hour 1GB 5,000/- 1 hour any time of the day
Happy nights 1GB 2,500/- midnight – 6am

The Bad

It only lasts for 1 hour, so if you value duration on the internet compared to the amount of content you have accessed then this plan isn’t for you.

If the internet ever got slow during the hour in which you activated the mix, then you are definitely utter some abusive words because your bundle will expire yet you have an unused data. Airtel gives the post midnight pack for 6 hours meaning you have more time to use your bundle.

The bright side

It can be activated any time of the day and our speed test was nice since we got really fast speeds, it will come in handy when downloading heavy files which you can do outside your monthly data cap meaning you will actually save money.

Kudo Orange, we only wish other Internet providers and Telecoms could follow suite. We need cheaper and faster internet

 

 

Passuneb.com is here to raise the Academic Bar in Uganda

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Joel Mwanja
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The days of buying numerous textbooks and a big bag to keep them in from being stolen are long gone. The internet has simplified life for us, thanks to a few brilliant Ugandan minds, the likes of Kevin Bazira, the CEO and Founder of Passuneb.com, which is an online solution to everything academia as far as Uganda is concerned.

Exams wont know what hit them

 

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With free online self revision, yes, free, Passuneb.com is the epitome when it comes to ensuring the academic standards of Uganda are still held high. Revision using the online portal where you do not need t sign in or get disturbed by ads is a thumbs up for this platform. For those of you accessing the platform in a cafe, worry not, you can download the revision questions at a click of a button.

Career Guidance

There are lots of questions students ask themselves while at school and most schools do not carry out career guidance sessions, but, thank God for passuneb.com which has bridged the gap. Now students have a personal career assistant, so this is a platform to throw those personal career questions which are then answered at the earliest time possible.

Inspirational Articles and Testimonials

Everyone needs to be inspired so that they succeed in their exams. Inspiration is good for the mind and well, Passuneb.com has those articles that talk about how to make it in life. This is a brilliant way of encouraging someone when you are not even around! Thanks Passuneb.com!

Leisure and Lifestyle

Work all day makes Jack a dull boy, and yes, this is what inspired the founders of Passuneb.com to come up with a section for relaxation, forget the movies and the series you watch on TV, this is academic relaxation, thus keeping the students in the loop and this seals a complete package for the student using this platform.

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Conclusion

The first time I visited the site, I was not disappointed, I was just amazed at the simplicity of this platform. I do not want to put my own words here, let the reviews on the site do the talking.

passuneb review

Samsung’s head of Mobile design resigns after bad S5 criticism

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Boses Muhinda
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Chang Dong-hoon, the former head of Mobile design at Samsung, resigned after the Galaxy S5 recieved poor criticism and its design was not well appreciated by many.  Chang Dong-hoon is said to have filled his resignation last week, and is now replaced by his old VP, Lee Min-hyouk. Lee, acquired the nickname  “Midas” for large contribution in the design of the Galaxy series which has sold over 100 million units.

However according to Reuters, Samsung did not comment on the reshuffle and we can only speculate that the future design of the Samsung devices might change considering that the S series has had multiple patent lawsuits and the design of some device like the Not3 was found to be Tacky, S4  looked cheap and the S5 “dimples” didn’t look so nice and some dubbed  the gold S5 the ‘bandage edition’.

 

Apple wins case against Samsung but gets only $119.6 million

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Boses Muhinda
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We all thought this would be a billion dollar case judging from the previous case of Apple and Samsung where Apple was rewarded $930 million in damages, this however was different.

After 3 days of intense debate from the jury, they had to decide that Samsung infringed on some of Apple’s patents and in fact all Samsung devices that were accused had infringed on at least one patent.

Apple was awarded $119.6 million in damages which is far wide from the $2.2 billion it was seeking. The Jury ruled that US patent that the Samsung phones had violated Apple’s Patent of ‘Quick Links’ , ‘Slide to Unlock’ which are US Patent number 5,946,647 and 8,046,721 respectively.
Judge Lucy Koh found that patents in relation to Universal search i.e US patent 6,847,959 and the background synchronization were not infringed upon.

The jury also awarded Samsung $152,400 in damages over the camera and folder organization patent which the jury determined that Apple had infringed upon, however Samsung was seeking $6.2 million in damages. The jury decided that Apple had not infringed another patent which was the “video transmission functionality.”

In a rather odd move, Samsung was found to have infringed on a patent but the jury had award no money for the infringement which made Judge Koh to ask the Jury to clarify the matter in half an hour but the Jury choose to return on Monday

Source: TNW

Skype group video calling is now free

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Boses Muhinda
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Well Microsoft seems to have woken up years after rival video messaging platforms like Hangouts accepted free group messaging for everyone.

Today Microsoft announced that it is making group video calls free for everyone, Windows desktop, Mac, and Xbox One users will be able to use the service free of charge. A service was previously only a premium feature which dug $8.99 from users monthly to make group video calls.

Microsoft seems slow at catching up but catching is better than ignoring feature requests and Microsoft says it will listen to its social media platforms’ feedback to improve the group messaging.

Well competition will take a hike since Microsoft adds Skype to every Windows 8 installation

 

Airtel wants to lend you a data Bundle

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Boses Muhinda
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Airtel Uganda has improved its BeeraKo / Malako service to allow users acquire data on loan. Previously BeeraKo allowed users to borrow airtime which is credited onto the bonus account and can’t bee used to buy a data bundle. Beerako is paid back using airtime inclusive of a service charge.

Airtel now lets its subscribers on both the 070 and 075 prefixes to actually purchase a data bundle on credit and its paid back when you load a new data bundle buy dailing *143#.

The Data bundle advances you can apply for include 25, 50, 100MB , sorry Data hogs like me who use a more data in a day won’t be catered for, besides you must have loaded at least a particular amount of airtime or data in the past 30 days.

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A screenshot showing the series of messages you reciece when interacting with Beerako (Data debt) feature

Airtel also has an auto advance feature where they lend you data automatically by dailing *143*1#. Here you will automatically get data bundles after a specific period of time.
The beauty this time is you get the exact amount of Data and you are charged the normal charge when paying back your data advance when you load airtime.

This will come in handy when your data runs out in the wee hours of the night when you are chatting with someone. However paying back debt is not a process many people enjoy, so only borrow when its necessary.

 

 

 

Facebook News Feed went blank and the world didn’t end!

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GURU8 Staff
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The world’s biggest Social network in terms of users ‘Facebook‘ went blank and failed to show what was on our minds for nearly  5 hours for users globally. Users could still access the website but all they could see were images and text showing “No content in this Feed”.

Even the mobile websites and app could not show the Newsfeed, and guess what users had to complain and since Facebook wasn’t showing their views they took their post to platforms like Twitter and Google+ to share their grievances with the social network.

Facebook NewFeed blank in the Iphone app (Image Credit: TNW)
Facebook NewFeed blank in the Iphone app (Image Credit: TNW)

Facebook hasn’t had the best run in terms of availability this year with Facebook owned WhatsApp also going down for a few hours and Instagram’s failure to post images for hours. Well i must be a problem of numbers, however Facebook has many engineers and should make sure this doesn’t happen very often considering that our social networks like Twitter and Google+ seem to be gaining users at a very fast rate.

Why we didn’t kill ourselves and why the world didn’t end?

Its 2014, ever service has a competitior and some competitors end up swaying users to their platforms, remember Telegram during the WhatsApp outage? Telegram’s audience grew greatly. So if you run an IT based product and it shuts down even for 30 minutes, just know competition will always smile.

Twitter, the microblogging website which is renown for spreading messages  and photos during major events and occurrences is where most users tweeted that Facebook was not showing its feed.

Of course, the world didn’t end for Facebook too!

The fix was later restored and users could view their News feed without  a problem

ImageCredit: TNW

 

 

 

WhatsApp hits 500 million active users

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Boses Muhinda
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The mobile messaging App, WhatsApp which was recently bought by Facebook has today announced that it has 500 million active users. This is a great rise considering WhatsApp had 100 active users in December last year. WhatsApp also revealed its users share more than 700 million photos and 100 million videos daily.

WhatsApp’s CEO Jan Koum also stated that the popular messaging app has been the fastest growing app in countries like Brazil, India, Mexico, and Russia during the last few months.

WhatsApp might have got criticized over privacy after the $19 billion purchase but the company still a wide smile because these digits beat competition by really wide margin.

Apple opens up OS X beta testing to everyone with a Mac

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Boses Muhinda
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Today Apple launched the OS X Beta Seed Program which allows users to test pre-release versions of the MAc operating system. Starting from OS X 10.9.3, users can try pre-release operating system updates , a feature which hasn’t been available unless you are a developer.

So you won’t need to pay $99 per year as a developer to test pre-release software but you are still required to sign an agreement to keep some details secret.

Well if you are so eager to experience the latest or future release accompained by a few bugs please sign up through the source link.

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