01 May 2013 Comments

Opera sues former employee for sharing trade secrets with Mozilla

Opera has accused a former employee of sharing trade secrets with its browser rival Mozilla. The software company has filed a lawsuit against former employee Trond Werner Hansen in Norway. Hansen stands to lose 20 million krónur ($3.4m) if Opera wins the case. Opera’s lawyer, Bing Hodneland advokatselskap partner, Ole E. Tokvam told V3: “Opera [...]

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01 May 2013 Comments

Google launches Now for iOS

Google has launched its Now predictive search platform for Apple’s iOS. The company is bringing the platform to Apple’s mobile operating system as a feature on the new version of Google’s Search application for the iPhone and iPad. Users will be able to access Now through the Search app itself. The update will allow users [...]

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01 May 2013 Comments

Shell plans to move 135,000 staff to BYOD

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 [...]

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30 April 2013 Comments

Momentum behind region’s leading tech event illustrates industry growth and progress

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 [...]

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30 April 2013 Comments

Cyberinfocts Ethical Hackers Forum May 11 2013

  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 [...]

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30 April 2013 Comments

NASA turns to hackers for new breed of space apps

  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 [...]

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30 April 2013 Comments

BlackBerry confirms new BB10 flagship in 2013

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 [...]

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27 April 2013 Comments

World’s first Braille Smartphone in development

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 [...]

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26 April 2013 Comments

Konga.com Launches New “SMS2ORDER” Platform with Massive Discounts & Deals

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 [...]

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26 April 2013 Comments

Very Simple E-Reading App Brings E-Books to Millions in Africa

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 [...]

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