Highlights from last night’s Social Media Talk 2015 September 25, 2015 Last night was the meeting of creatives and others who may have just gotten jobs where creatives should be thanks to the British Chamber… Continue Reading
How social media stood by Ahmed: The power of a hashtag in human rights September 17, 2015 You may think it’s a great idea to build a clock for your Science teacher, but how would you feel getting arrested for it… Continue Reading
The Born and Bred Awards, and how they failed to use social media September 11, 2015 After last night’s Born and Bred (could-have-been-better) Awards 2015, I noticed not much has changed from the previous shows. Twitter and Facebook were ‘lit’… Continue Reading
Number of users of popular social media sites globally right now August 12, 2015 Social media is growing these days, and almost everyone is on it, for whatever purposes. Here are the number of users of social media as… Continue Reading
Facebook to provide free internet access in remote areas using drones August 5, 2015 There are still places in the world that do not know what the internet is, and Facebook has made it their mission to let… Continue Reading
Last week’s major tech stories on Techtrends Zambia July 13, 2015 As a new week begins, let’s look back and how much technological progress was made last week: BBM for Android’s Material design was released:… Continue Reading
Facebook has updated its News Feed controls July 10, 2015 The Facebook News Feed is the first thing we usually see when we log into our accounts and so many changes are made to… Continue Reading
What is your digital reputation like? July 9, 2015 Yes, you have a social media account, you can post whatever you want, but did you know that that ‘Whatever’ makes up your digital… Continue Reading
What Social Media Day is June 30, 2015 In 2010, Mashable, who write about everything really, created Social Media Day to fall every year on 30th June as a way to bring… Continue Reading
Top tech stories last week… June 15, 2015 It’s a new week so here’s what you need to catch up on from the past week: Facebook’s Internet.org launches in 13th country, Senegal:… Continue Reading
Facebook’s Internet.org launches in 13th country, Senegal June 8, 2015 The internet.org app which allows free basic access to some websites has been launched in the 13th country, Senegal. The other countries are Zambia… Continue Reading
Last week’s major tech stories June 8, 2015 Here are the stories that caught our attention last week: MTN’s 21 Days of Y’ello Care kicked off: the staff volunteer project aimed at… Continue Reading
Facebook Lite Android app introduced today for developing markets June 5, 2015 Source: Next Power Up The word ‘Lite’ in Zambia is synonymous with certain lager brands that have less alcoholic content than other beers of… Continue Reading
Facebook opens 3rd AI research centre in Paris June 3, 2015 Source: Facebook In order to make our Facebook experience much better, Facebook has announced the opening of an extra Facebook AI Research (FAIR) centre… Continue Reading
Coming Soon: Video Calls On Facebook Messenger April 29, 2015 The VoIP world is at it, trying to push for products that rival every competitor out there on the technology scene, and Facebook is… Continue Reading
Social Media Access To Be Blocked In Zambian Government Offices April 28, 2015 If you work in a Government office and really enjoy spending what should be working ours on social media, we have some bad news…. Continue Reading
Why Businesses In Zambia Really Need Social Media Today March 31, 2015 So you have a business and everyone knows about it from television or posters, and even word of mouth. That’s great, but you… Continue Reading
In Social Media Updates Today… March 27, 2015 Whatsapp You can finally make calls! All you have to do is update your Whatsapp app and get someone who has the call feature… Continue Reading
Facebook’s Internet.org Hits 5th Country; Ghana February 6, 2015 First launched in Zambia, Internet.org then moved to Kenya, Tanzania and Colombia, finally getting to Ghana as it’s 5th stopover. The mobile operators on… Continue Reading
Last Week’s Tech Trends in Zambia: A Recap February 2, 2015 Last week was pretty eventful so we’ve put together the tech stories you may have missed: Samsung buying BlackBerry: The speculation has been high… Continue Reading