SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook has launched a security feature called Trusted Contacts to make it easier for users to recover hacked accounts. Facebook announced the new account recovery feature on Thursday and has already added it for all of its users. The social network explained that Trusted Contacts are essentially emergency contacts for its service, [...]
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 [...]
Earlier this month, on the 3rd of October, we stumbled upon the new GTBank website while they were testing and we talked about it. Unfortunately, it was taken down before we could a screenshot of it. As at that time, some of the links were still broken and the CSS had a hard time loading. [...]
Facebook is reportedly eyeing a takeover of desktop, tablet and smartphone browser maker Opera Software. But when we asked a staff of Opera Software for an official response on the report, he declined to comment. Facebook also declined to comment. One source close to Opera, however, tells us two interesting things: 1) Opera Software management [...]
Facebook finally is taking Nigeria serious talking about growth and business. Facebook needs the service of anyone who meet the criteria below to work for them from Lagos on contract basis. If you fit the bill, check it out! Growth Manager Africa – Contract ( Nigeria) Are you passionate about making Facebook the best global [...]
I believe a couple you guys reading this blog could say…yeah, I said it! Last weekend we held Barcamp Lagos in the University of Lagos which was attended by quite a number of people who are doing something great in Nigerian tech scene. It also gave aspiring tech entrepreneur opportunity to connect with successful entrepreneurs [...]
Call it Facebook everywhere and you wont be wronged, Gemalto has come to the aid of Facebook to produce text-based Facebook for feature phone. Some of the things you can do with it include status updates, pokes and friend requests – to any GSM-compatible handset through the magic of the GSM SIM Toolkit and Class [...]
Nigeria and other African countries witnessed massive growth in number of Facebook users. Still at the top is Egypt, followed by South Africa, Morocco and Nigeria with Tunisia closing up at the top five. In Nigeria, the number of males (67%) on Facebook is more than double the number of their female (33%) counterpart. Total [...]
Was trying to find an SNL spoof on Mark Zuckerberg sometime ago and saw among his likes; Makinde Adeagbo! I was taken aback. That was a Yoruba name I just saw on the page of the world’s youngest richest man[EDIT: Mark is no longer the youngest richest, its Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook Co-founder. Thanks for spotting [...]
Joe Hewitt, a top developer who works for Facebook, recently tweeted that Google’s Android was not open and that caused an argument around the twitworld and blogosphere. Today, he has written a blog post to clarify things. Here’s the post below: There is no doubt that Android is the most open of all major mobile [...]
