Earlier this month, we broke the news of another BlackBerry 10 device to be released before the end of the year and now, I’m happy to introduce you to the youthful and fun BlackBerry Q5 smartphone, running BlackBerry 10. With a QWERTY keyboard and a confident design, this new BlackBerry smartphone has been built to [...]
Every day, women around the world are helping to lead, transform and innovate in the fields of technology and science. BlackBerry and Alicia Keys want to celebrate these leaders and help encourage young women to explore the opportunities presented in the STEM fields. Earlier this week at the BlackBerry Live event, BlackBerry and Alicia Keys [...]
Jumia.com, Africa’s fastest growing online retailer, confirmed that global telecommunications group Millicom International Cellular S.A plans to increase its stake in Jumia.com’s holding company from 20 to 35%. This additional €85 million investment in the parent group is part of a €340 million agreement signed in August 2012. Of the €85m, €35m will be invested [...]
When the Nigerian Communications Commission announced that Mobile Number Portability was going to be available later this year, many a Nigerian was happy because it signaled the end of the era when we were enslaved to our SIM cards, and our networks, by extension. Most people already knew which network they were going to port [...]
BlackBerry 10 Platform Launches on Two New Smartphones BlackBerry® yesterday launched BlackBerry® 10, the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry platform that creates a new and unique mobile computing experience. Available on two new LTE-enabled smartphones, the BlackBerry® Z10 (all-touch) and BlackBerry® Q10 (touch with physical keyboard) smartphones powered by BlackBerry 10 offer you a faster, [...]
While some of us are still flaunting our 1TeraByte external hard drive, Kingston, the data storage maker has decided to take things to the next level by making 1TB as portable as possible by bringing it to a flash drive size known as the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0. That effectively puts paid to the time [...]
A few days ago, the CFO of Lenovo said that the Chinese technology giants were considering a deal with Canadian mobile giants – Research in Motion, the owners of the Blackberry range of devices and services. For some reason, investors were excited about this and RIM’s stock price rose to a 52-week high. But let’s [...]
At the age when some of our 7-year-olds are busy running around clueless about what to do, a 7-year-old outside the country is doing great stuff. Zora Ball, a 7-year-old girl from Harambee Institute in Pennsylvania is the youngest person to ever develop a full mobile game which was unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania [...]
On Friday January 18, 2013, Co-Creation Hub, Nigeria’s foremost social innovation centre in Nigeria, launched the EFIKO Mobile Application. The launch took place at the Co-Creation Hub in Yaba, Lagos and included an award ceremony for students who excelled using the platform during its pilot test in Lagos. With sponsorship support from Samsung Electronics West [...]
Before you rush off to answer yes, think critically about it. Few hours from now, the very first meeting of Nigerian female developers will take place at the Co-creation Hub with the tag which was coined by another technology-focused blog. Let’s hope the real female geeks will turn up but really, looking at the tech [...]
