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Yahoo Inc’s email service has been unavailable to some users since Monday night due to a “hardware problem” that the Internet company said has been harder to fix than it expected. Yahoo believes the problem will be fixed by 3 p.m. PST Wednesday, according to a post on Yahoo’s official Tumblr blog by the company’s senior vice president of communications, Jeffrey Bonforte. “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back! Get ready to party the night away come 19th December at Zone 7 with fellow tweeps. Entrance is 15,000shs. Call 0775439894 for details. Great music and drinks.” (Update: Yahoo communicated at 5 p.m. PST that most users should be…

Twitter rolled out updated Android and iOS on Tuesday to let users send pictures in direct, personal messages seen only by recipients instead of being shared publicly on the social network. “For the first time, you can share and view photos via direct message on your mobile phone,” Jeremy Gordon, the company’s senior director of product engineering, wrote in a post on the Twitter blog. “We’ve also introduced a new tab in the navigation bar that makes it easy to access direct messages they’re just one tap away from wherever you are on Twitter.” “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back! Get ready…

A South African sign language interpreter accused of gesticulating nonsense during the Nelson Mandela memorial service has claimed he is qualified but was hallucinating and hearing voices and said he is receiving treatment for schizophrenia. Millions of TV viewers saw Thamsanqa Jantjie interpreting speeches by Barack Obama and other global leaders at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg. His gestures baffled and angered deaf people around the world, with experts saying he did not know even basic signs such as “thank you” or “Mandela”. “There was nothing I could do,” Jantjie, 34, told South Africa’s Star newspaper on Thursday. “I was alone in a very dangerous situation.…

The latest iteration in Rovio Entertainment’s popular series of Angry Birds games called Angry Birds Go! is now available on leading mobile platforms. The game is Rovio’s first major free-to-play Angry Birds title and the first time players get to see the Angry Birds world in 3D as they race through Piggy Island. In Angry Birds Go! players can jump behind the wheel of a downhill kart and race as Red, Chuck, Stella, King Pig, and other characters from the Angry Birds universe. The game features over 50 different soapbox karts and a selection of tracks ranging from canyons to speedways and…

By Stuart G-khast South African based young tycoon Katsha yesterday evening crashed his latest ride. Katsha stumbled off the road and as a result crushed its left side. Katsha and the other car occupant were rushed to hospital and our sources indicate they are recovering steadily. “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back! Get ready to party the night away come 19th December at Zone 7 with fellow tweeps. Entrance is 15,000shs. Call 0775439894 for details. Great music and drinks.” Katsha has been on the road with former sworn enemy one StarQT Nankya ever since he bought his new monster ride. Katsha will be…

Chris Brown is no different from Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr. or Muhammad Ali — so says R. Kelly in an interview with The Guardian, in which he uplifted the singer by slamming all the “haters” and “weak people” who feel otherwise. Speaking on Brown’s now infamous 2009 assault on Rihanna, Kelly said he never felt sorry for Brown, the now 24-year-old who has been riddled with backlash as a result and is currently in rehab for anger management. “I only feel sorry for weak people,” said Kelly. “What I’ve come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters. The ones that’s talking about Chris Brown or R. Kelly or…

The much anticipated commencement of construction of Karuma Dam by Sinohydro, a Chinese Firm contracted by the government of Uganda to construct the 600 Megawatts dam on Karuma has begun. A team of financiers from the Exim Bank of China which is expected to provide funding of the dam were on Wednesday taken on assessment tour at the dam as negations for funding draws to a conclusion. The Exim Bank team is today expected to meet Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka for the final deal closing. “The #SamsungTwitterParty is back! Get ready to party the night away come 19th December at…

It was a family affair in the final week of Tusker Project Fame. As the excitement of final evictions approached some of the exhilaration of the penultimate night was tempered by the death of former South African president Nelson Mandela. Mindful of the tremendous legacy left by President Mandela the show began with a tribute performance by Kavi Pratt (niece of sitting Kenyan President H.E Uhuru Kenyatta) with the first family there to cheer her on from the VIP marquee along with Mburu Karanja son of former EABL MD Michael Karanja- the Master Brewer who’s signature is on the bottle…

Uganda 11th December 2013.  As 2013 comes to a close, it’s time to take our annual look at the videos, channels, and moments that shaped our year. As unpredictable as each year seems to be, it’s clear that trending videos are getting bigger, and the global community responsible for them is driving pop culture unlike ever before. Globally, the world watched the The Fox more than 265 million times, making it the top trending video of 2013. Viewers also made it atop searched Halloween costume, and you’ll maybe even read it asa children’s book. The global public turned out in…