Shell is undertaking a huge bring your own device (BYOD) project which will see it supporting around 135,000 devices picked by users rather than dictated by the IT department. At the CA World show in Las Vegas on Monday, Ken Mann, enterprise information security architect at the oil and gas firm, outlined Shell’s shift to [...]
Mobile Web West Africa 2013, the region’s leading mobile focused conference, has almost hit full capacity over a week before the event is due to be held. The event takes place from May 7th through 10th at the Four Points by Sheraton in Lagos, Nigeria. Only a handful of places now remain for the popular [...]
Event Details The Hackers Forum is a unique event, where the best of minds in the hacking world, cyber community along with policy makers meet to join their efforts to co-operate in addressing the most topical issues of the Internet Security space. The next forum will be held in Lagos, on the 11th of [...]
NASA isn’t exactly known for thinking small. This is, after all, the agency that’s trying to lasso an asteroid into orbit around the Moon before 2025. But one group at NASA is focused on a far leaner goal: outsourcing the development of new NASA apps to hackers around the world. Earlier this month, they [...]
BlackBerry CEO, Thorsten Heins, has confirmed that the company is lining up a couple of additional smartphones for 2013, including a new flagship for the BB10 platform before the end of the year. “There’s one new product I’m really excited about, but I can’t really share it. It takes BlackBerry 10 to another level in [...]
With all the wonderful features of smartphones still fall a little short for some — specifically, for those living with serious sight issues. While there are quite a number of voice control apps that offer a good deal of assistance, 2011 TED Fellow Sumit Dagar had an idea for a more effective solution: a smartphone that’s specifically designed [...]
The launch of e-commerce in Nigeria heralded a period of unprecedented growth and development for several businesses, and introduced customers to unlimited choice and the ease of access to shop online anytime, anywhere. That apparently was just the beginning, as Konga.com, Nigeria’s online megastore and one of the pioneers of Online Retail in Nigeria is set [...]
Forget the kindles, tablets and all-what-not, this is something new and it also very exciting. With access to quite a whole number of titles and accessible on a feature phone, this will probably be the future of e-reading in Africa as it is right now. And so far, over 500, 000 users can’t exactly be [...]
Nokia has announced a partnership with WhatsApp which includes adding a WhatsApp button for instant messaging to its new Asha 210 smartphone — the first phone to do so. The mobile manufacturer announced this week that the low-budget Asha 210 is going to cost about N 15, 000 and will support Wi-Fi and 2G connections [...]
Quite a lot of excitement has surrounded the Mobile Number Portability that was announced on Monday and with good reason too – most network providers are defaulting in one way or another. Of course, some predictions have been made too with etisalat getting the most attention within the youth demography. However, unconfirmed stats from NCC [...]
