For years, many Nigerian families complained about the cost of laundry detergents. Two companies, Unilever and PZ, dominated the market. They sold their Omo and Elephant brands in big boxes that were unaffordable to most families.   Families looked for alternatives so they could buy the detergents in smaller quantities. Local companies sprung up, but failed due to quality issues. During this period, it was common for families to pool resources to buy the big [...]

It is over, concluded on Wednesday, and it is a great one. Bringing the best in the platform together, Google i/o offers new great heights.   Google I/O brings together thousands of developers for two days of deep technical content, focused on building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.   The company [...]

A new study shows that people with HIV under a regime will not transmit it to their partners, 96% of the time. This does not cure them, but it just reduces the rate they infect other people. People, do not try it, because 4% risk is still a huge number. Be cool and be wise and do not be deceived that exposing your life for 96% statistics is a good thing. Just make it 100% [...]

    We are updating our earlier post with the newer entrances included.  Huawei made the tablet for MTN.   The S7 Slim is a little thinner than the original Huawei S7 tablet and it loses the optical finger navigation area from the side of the display. It also replaces the 800 x 480 pixel resistive touchscreen display with a capacitive touchscreen. Unfortunately the screen resolution is still stuck at 800 x 480 pixels. The [...]

Have you seen any other company with apostrophe after its name, except Yahoo!? Now, you can, thanks to Ugandan Yo!.   Yo Uganda Limited (“Yo!”) is a software company.  We develop and market software products with a focus on software for telecommunications services, billing systems, mobile applications and web applications.  We also provide services such as software development services on contract, SMS gateway services, hosted IVR services and ICT consultancy.   We have over 25 [...]

Digital Solutions Uganada likes animals. Most of the products are named after animals. Over the years , they have built a number of quality Software Solutions.     This is the Ugandan rampup company in action:   Butterfly Butterfly is designed for Internet Cafés. Butterfly is a client/server system, with the client-side running on Windows and the server-side running on Linux or Windows. Butterfly uses advanced timing dynamic firewalling techniques to control how much time [...]

People, the best place to be, right now, is to be in Africa or be doing something in Africa. We have complained about the lack of funds. That is going to change, because private equity firms are increasingly moving to Africa. South Africa and Nigeria are taking a big chunk of these new arrivals. Some of the best investment companies in the world are finding home in the continent. This was contained in a paper [...]

Sms one® provides innovative and interactive wireless application services to a broad range of operators and enterprises, allowing them to conquer the complex challenges of reach, speed, predictability and cost.   Today sms one® is one of the leading Mobile information service providers in Uganda. we have gained the respect of many of the major GSM operators like Zain Sierra Leone, MTN Uganda, Uganda Telecom, Zain Uganda and Warid Telecom.   Sms one® is a [...]

  Fasmicro (our parent company)  – a leader in software, Android, embedded systems and microelectronics, today, launched its Android App Store. To our knowledge, this is the first corporate Android store in West Africa, if not Africa. The team based in Owerri, Nigeria, has developed many apps with local focus in the last few months. But with Google Android Challenge coming, they are releasing  just a few.   The team is also releasing apps in [...]

SMS Media is a New Age Media Value Added Services Solutions Provider that offers a wide range of products and services namely: SMS and MMS, IVR based products, WAP portals, which cater to the tailored demands of its clients and users. We are currently the largest SMS content provider in Uganda and have been so for the last 10 years.   The Company was incorporated in 2001 as a private limited company and our mission [...]