When Facebook acquired WhatsApp in February 2014 for $19 billion, it was met with mixed feelings as to the changes the social media giant had in mind for the chat app that had won the hearts of many. Already, speculations were brewing as to how the new parent company of Continue Reading
Kwamina E. Arthur
I assembled a team of geniuses to create Afdtechtalk. Based in Ghana, West Africa.
Vodafone Business Solutions IoT event roundup
Vodafone Business Solutions in an event yesterday at the Labadi Beach Hotel organized a workshop on the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept. Basically, IoT is about connecting everything to everyone everywhere and getting them to communicate. IoT allows connected machines and objects to talk to other machines Continue Reading
FIFA 17 – Football has changed a lot!
It’s the season of announcements. Google had its I/O late last month; Apple held the WWDC a few days ago. Well, over the last few days (June 12 to 16), the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 Expo) has been running and for gamelovers, there’s a lot to expect from your favourite Continue Reading
Uber is en route to Accra!
Uber, a disruptive technology platform in the transportation space that connects driver-partners with riders through a smartphone app, is finally ready to launch in Accra Ghana! They’re offering up to six free rides (of up to GHS 20 each) to riders in Accra from midday on Thursday June 9, 2016 Continue Reading
How to connect your flash drive to your phone
Usually when you transfer something from your pendrive (please say flash drive/ thumb drive), you’d have to hook both phone and flash drive to your computer before any transfer can occur. A USB OTG (On-The-Go) cable acts as a bridge, allowing you to hook up your flash drive directly to Continue Reading
These tweaks will bring Android closer to perfection
Even though I’m a stickler for Google’s barebones Stock Android ROM, I still feel a few improvements and additions will add to the user experience. Google’s campaign to make custom ROMs redundant seems to be catching up because barebones Android is beginning to offer some of the nifty features one Continue Reading
Five features WhatsApp desperately needs
WhatsApp is extremely popular in our subregion. It serves us very well but we feel the app will be better if the following features are baked in. Here are five features WhatsApp desperately needs: Ability to send media to more than one contact at a time: It gets unnecessarily routine Continue Reading