San Francisco, United States | AFP | Along with its new iPhones, Apple is stepping up on content and services for its devices for its big media event Tuesday. Apple was expected to introduce three upgraded iPhones and a successor to its more affordable iPhone XR as it looks to hold …
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Seoul, South Korea | AFP | Tech giant Samsung has said it will launch its hotly anticipated first foldable smartphone on Friday, months after faulty screens forced an embarrassing delay of its release. The world’s largest smartphone maker spent nearly eight years developing the Galaxy Fold, but had to hold its launch in April after …
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Washington, United States | AFP | Twitter on Wednesday halted users’ ability to fire off tweets via text messages as it seeks to fix a vulnerability that led to CEO Jack Dorsey’s account being hijacked. Dorsey last week was the target of so-called “SIM swap” fraud, which enables a hacker …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Christopher Darlington is a drone pilot and mechanic. He shoots music videos, ceremonies and documentaries for his clients. He charges between Shillings 300,000 and 500,000 and is glad business is available. Darlington looks forward to the first and last two months of the year because …
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London, United Kingdom | AFP | Bank of England governor Mark Carney has suggested that a virtual currency, modelled on Facebook’s Libra, could one day replace the dollar as king of the foreign exchange market. The BoE chief aired vague proposals for a so-called “Synthetic Hegemonic Currency” at the recent …
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San Francisco, United States | AFP | Huawei’s upcoming flagship Mate 30 smartphone will launch next month without key Google apps, creating a disadvantage for the Chinese tech giant hit by US sanctions. A Google spokesperson confirmed Thursday that the California firm won’t be able to deliver licensed applications such as Gmail, Maps and YouTube …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has ordered all government officials to take Uganda Airlines whenever they are going to destinations it flies to. The order is contained in a cabinet memo dated August 5, 2019. All cabinet ministers and ministers of state must ensure this directive is …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Cabinet has approved the appointment of the Refugee Appeals board and that of the National Information Technology Authority (NITA-U). The new five-member Refugee Appeals board comprises of Gordon Lakidi Oloya as Chairperson and members Charles Wadenya, Gordon Mwesigye, Hajj Kisambira Muhammad Tezikuba and Animu Angupale. …
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✳Entebbe-Nairobi, inaugural flight 10am August 27 ✳Entebbe-Juba, 10x weekly from August 27 ✳Entebbe-Mombasa, 3x weekly from August 27 ✳Entebbe-Nairobi, 2 daily from August 28 ✳Entebbe-Mogadishu, 4x weekly from August 29 ✳ Entebbe-Kilimanjaro, 3x weekly from September 22 Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines is set to have an …
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Johnson insists US digital giants must be taxed ‘fairly and properly’ Biarritz, France | AFP | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday said that US digital giants needed to be taxed “fairly and properly” in a growing dispute with the United States over taxing the likes of Amazon, Apple, …
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