Nigeria’s embargo on Chinese phones ‘hit top players’
Nigeria’s embargo on Chinese mobile phone brands has affected major players in a market segment dominated by growing popularity of devices like Tecno, a smartphone market research reveals.
Reviewed: Smartphones with top battery lives
Deciding on which smartphone to buy is no easy task. We all need a phone with top-notch performance and a capable camera for digital lifestyles. For this and several other reasons, the smartphone’s battery life is an increasingly important factor. No matter how good a new smartphone is, it requires further recharge of its battery. […]
Nigeria Police tests anti-crime app
Nigeria Police is test-running its Police-VGS app developed to combat crimes in the country. Nigeria Police says the Police-VGS App that is yet to be released for public use is undergoing a test operation and will let the it leverage technology in combating crime in Nigeria, according to an official statement released on Twitter. “The […]
Google to ‘mine data’ from $2.6b Looker deal
Google hopes to mine data, seen by the search giant as untapped resources for many businesses, in its bid to buy unified platform provider, Looker, in a $2.6 billion deal.
Meet Samsung’s Gear S3, the ‘outdoor’ smartwatch
Samsung has released two variations of its Gear S3 smartwatch to appeal to a greater niche of wearable technology users. The Gear S3 the outdoor version of its sleeker brother the Gear S3 Classic, is big, thicker and wider than its predecessor the Gear S2. “The Samsung Pay on your Samsung Gear S3 allows you […]
Nigeria okays frequency spectrum trading among operators
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved frequency spectrum trading among telecoms operators under a plan to grow investment in the sector and boost economic growth of Nigeria, Professor Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman at the telecoms regulatory agency says. Danbatta disclosed this while presenting his scorecard to media executives in Lagos and says the […]
Watch | Dr Reuben Abati on how social media has democratised news dissemination in Nigeria
Dr Reuben Abati, Social Commentator and former Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, speaks on how social media has democratised news dissemination in Nigeria in this presentation at Technology Times Outlook 2017 held by Technology Times in Lagos.
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Devops practices to speed up your delivery pipeline
If you are an enthusiast professional working in the field of DevOps then you must be knowing how difficult it is to speed up the delivery pipeline. If you will have a speedy delivery pipeline then your business can grow manifolds and client will be extremely satisfied with your performance. But have you ever imagined, […]
Lessons from Main One CEO’s vision for Broadband Nigeria
Funke Opeke, CEO of Main One, the undersea cable company shared her vision of the next frontier for broadband in Nigeria in this presentation at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Stakeholders Consultative Forum for the Year 2013 -2017 Strategic Management Plan held July 2012 in Lagos. We reproduce the presentation below as the issues raised […]
Is Tanzania moving towards Totalitarianism?
By ‘Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative, the pan-African digital rights and inclusion group. Last Wednesday January 30, Tanzania moved decisively closer to becoming a one-party state when parliament approved proposed amendments to the Political Parties’ Act that was first passed in 1992. That was the year that the country adopted multi-party democracy, after […]
