Finance Bill 2026 could make smartphones cheaper in Kenya by replacing multiple mobile phone taxes and import levies totalling 55.5% with a single, reduced 25% excise duty payable upon activation.

The Finance Bill 2026 rewrites "royalty" and "management fee" to tax card networks, reversing the Supreme Court and raising payment costs.

Apple may let iPhone users replace AirPlay with Google Cast in iOS 27 due to EU pressure. Here’s what the reported change means for casting on iPhones.

Airtel Money offers free Airtel-to-Airtel transfers across all amounts while M-PESA still charges transaction fees. Here’s why Kenya’s mobile money pricing debate is heating up amid the Finance Bill ...

The National Treasury has proposed a 16% Value Added Tax on the fees charged by Kenya’s 42 licensed payment service providers. The list is long and familiar: M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Pesapal, Kenswitch, ...

Texts sent from an iPhone to an Android phone can now be end-to-end encrypted, the same protection that has always covered iMessages between two iPhones. The feature is on by default, and qualifying ...

WhatsApp users are reporting a strange issue where Status updates from unsaved contacts are suddenly appearing in their feeds. Reports suggest the behaviour may be spreading across Android, iPhone, ...

One UI 8.5 runs on Android 16 and is here now. One UI 9 runs on Android 17 and is still in beta. Here is the difference.

Samsung's One UI 8.5 update for the Galaxy S22 is expected to begin Tuesday, May 26. It is also the phone's last major update ...

Sending a photo from a Samsung to an iPhone used to mean WhatsApp, a cloud upload, or giving up. One UI 8.5 fixes that. Quick Share now talks to AirDrop directly.

Zuku has quietly doubled speeds across its home internet packages in Kenya without increasing prices, as competition from Safaricom, Airtel, Faiba and smaller ISPs reshapes the broadband market in ...