Two of the biggest names in video gaming have seen demand jump as virus lockdowns force people to stay at home.
The makers of popular games Call of Duty (CoD) and Fifa say player numbers have soared during the pandemic.
That's booste…
The UK and US have issued a joint warning cyber-spies are targeting the health sector.
Hackers linked to foreign states have been hunting for information, including Covid-19 data and vaccine research, they say.
UK sources say they ha…
The outstanding camera phone – TECNO CAMON 15 Premier allows you to experience brilliant photography with big screen, big memory and big battery
The CAMON 15 series smartphone from TECNO Mobile (www.TECNOMobile.com) has begun its offici…
Cloud computing has surged in recent years, changing the way people communicate, manage data and do business. Billions of private and business users take advantage of on-demand technology.
However, with coronavirus lockdown rules in p…
France accused Apple APPL.O on Tuesday of undermining its effort to fight the coronavirus by refusing to help make its iPhones more compatible with a planned “StopCovid” contact-tracing app.
Countries are rushing to develop smartphone a…
Microsoft will invest $1 billion in Poland as part of a plan that will involve opening a data centre in the country to provide cloud services to businesses and government institutions, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
Microso…
Video surveillance cameras in France will monitor how many people are wearing masks and their compliance with social distancing when the coronavirus lockdown is eased next week.
The resort city of Cannes on the Côte d'Azur has trialled …
Lenovo Group said on Tuesday it has launched a new server platform capable of handling heavy computing tasks inside data centers using chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Demand from cloud computing companies have boosted sales of se…
Latvian authorities are hunting a 26kg (57lb) drone that went missing mid-flight, causing air-traffic problems.
The aviation authority has restricted flights below 19,500ft (6,000m) in the region while they search for it.
While offic…
Xiaomi today launched a new e-commerce service in India that allows people in the nation to easily browse and order its handsets and other products from nearby physical retail stores as the Chinese giant rushes to kickstart its sales in i…
* 5,554 mobile data plans in 228 countries were gathered and analysed by Cable.co.uk to compare the cost of one gigabyte (1GB) of mobile data across the entire world
* The UK comes in at 59thin the world, with 1GB of mobile data costing…
Conspiracy theories, misinformation and speculation about coronavirus have flooded social media. But who starts these rumours? And who spreads them?
We've investigated hundreds of misleading stories during the pandemic. It's given us an…
It seems the demand for Safaricom’s M-Pesa payment product never eases. Since its 2007 launch in Kenya, the fintech app has commanded over 70% of the mobile money market in that country. When COVID-19 hit the East African nation of 53 mi…
Apple Inc on Monday launched an updated version of its MacBook Pro with modified keyboards, as the laptop line had faced criticism for typing-related problems, while boosting performance and adding storage.
Apple said here its new lineu…
The US has seen foreign spy agencies carry out reconnaissance of research into a coronavirus vaccine, a senior US intelligence official has told the BBC.
Bill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, sa…
Households across the country are finding their broadband connections pushed to the limit as families in lockdown try to work, educate and entertain themselves online.
During a recent video-conference, MP Julie Elliott made a plea to th…
Data compiled by Atlas VPN reveals there have been nearly 404 million malware infections during the last 30 days worldwide, which makes over 10 million cases per day. More than 64% of the malicious attacks were targeting educational inst…
Samsung brings new, innovative features found on its flagship Galaxy S20 series to the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note10 series through a software update(1) starting from March. Users will be able to capture content with the latest Galaxy camer…
Popular video-sharing platform TikTok continues to grow at a high rate globally based on the number of new app downloads. Data gathered by Learnbonds.com indicates that during the first quarter of 2020, the platform recorded an all-time hi…
New Test Results Prove XLERATORs with HEPA Filtration System Remove 99.999 Percent of Viruses from the Airstream
Proper Hand Hygiene Top Defense Against Spread of Germs
Both the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease …
• Quanergy’s Flow Management™ Platform anonymously tracks people flows and measures the distance between individuals to ensure safe social distancing measures
• The platform provides integration with thermal cameras to identify and trac…
Microsoft says more than 10 million people now subscribe to Xbox Game Pass, its subscription service offering access to a growing selection of PC and Xbox Games. The service launched in 2017 with more than 100 Xbox games for $9.99 per mont…
Twitter usage spiked to 166 million daily users in the first quarter of 2020, as more people flocked to the site to keep up with news on the coronavirus pandemic. The usage growth is the largest Twitter has ever reported year-over-year, up…
TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world’s most valued startups (ByteDance), continues to grow rapidly despite suspicion from the U.S. as more people look for ways to keep themselves entertained amid the …
Google’s Chrome Web Store is the biggest catalog of browser extensions around, but as with any successful chunk of the internet, more things on offer to install means more scammers and spammers trying to sneak their trash into the mix or…
San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has launched Flutterwave Store, a portal for African merchants to create digital shops to sell online.
The product is less Amazon and more eBay — with no inventory or warehouse…
Face ID was a great idea — until large swathes of the world were forced to wear face masks, rendering it largely useless.
Apple has apparently heard our pain.
Users are reporting a subtle new feature in the latest developer version …
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new camera board that should dramatically improve the photographic capabilities available to the popular DIY computer’s enthusiasts and hobbyists. It’s called the High Quality Camera, and it’s …
Video conferencing provider Zoom said on Thursday it had mistakenly published a blog last week that put its daily users at 300 million people when the figure instead referred to the number of meeting participants.
The Zoom blog from Apr…
Global smartphone production is expected to slump a record 16.5% to 287 million phones in the June quarter from a year earlier as the coronavirus pandemic muzzles demand, TrendForce said here despite supply chains resuming after weeks of s…
The quarantine lockdown is driving a record number of users to Facebook’s products. On a conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed a number of new metrics highlighting a significant bump in Facebook usage during the broader quarantin…
Africa is facing new conversations around whether to remain on-premise or move to the cloud
Security, risk, data loss, and legislation. These are the primary concerns listed by organisations and government institutions when asked why th…
TECNO CAMON 15 Premier is equipped with 64 MP SONY cameras and trademarked TAIVOS™ technology
Recently, Michael Christopher Brown post several photos and a Vlog on his Instagram and shared his experience on TECNO CAMON 15 (TECNO-mobile.…
Millions of people in the UK will soon be asked to track their movements to limit the spread of coronavirus.
The government is deploying 18,000 people to trace the contacts of those infected, and the wider public will be asked to get in…
Social-media companies are failing to clamp down on scammers selling people's personal details through their platforms, an investigation from consumer watchdog Which? has shown.
It found 50 profiles, pages and groups on Facebook, Twitte…
The technology giants of Silicon Valley are among the few winners from the global pandemic. Their share prices are holding up or even surging ahead as investors bet they will come out of the crisis even stronger.
But Covid-19 has also s…
The social media platform TikTok and the philanthropic Gates Foundation donated $10 million each on Wednesday to the vaccine alliance GAVI to help fund efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.
GAVI said the funds would be used…
MFA Integration with Duo Security Meant to Simplify and Strengthen Identity and Access Management and Enable Zero Trust for PeopleSoft
Appsian [1], the global leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data security, has announced an …
In the current market, 48MP cameras that utilize pixel binning and algorithms to process the extra sensory data for better photos are the norm, however, the recently launched TECNO CAMON 15 series are equipped with 64MP SONY camera as the …
For the most part, you can no longer use Twitter as it was originally built to be used: over text message.
Last week, Twitter turned off the ability to receive SMS messages containing the text of new tweets. The feature was disabled in …
Tesla is rolling out a software update to some of its newest cars that will allow them to see and respond to traffic lights and stop signs, a feature that CEO Elon Musk has teased for years.
The update is available only to owners of Tes…
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia and B2B agtech startup Twiga Foods are partnering to deliver produce in Kenya using adaptive measures during COVID-19.
Jumia offers online goods and services verticals in 11 countries and became th…
Major U.S. wireless firms said on Monday they will extend a commitment through June 30 not to cancel service or charge late fees to customers who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
In March, the Federal Communications Commi…
While Shopify is best-known for powering the online stores of more than 1 million businesses, the company is launching a consumer shopping app of its own today, simply called Shop.
The app is actually an update and rebrand of Arrive, an…
A new Nigerian fintech venture, Okra, has racked up a unique mix of accomplishments in less than a year.
The Lagos based API developer created a product that generates revenues from both payment startups and established financial insti…
Jaguar Land Rover is scaling up production of NHS-approved face visors
New tooling, developed by WHS plastics, could produce as many as 14,000 visors each week
The process is being industrialised to create more visors for…
UPSTREAM IDENTIFIES ROGUE APPS THAT TRY TO STEAL MONEY FROM ADVERTISERS AND CONSUMERS
Secure-D [1] from Upstream [2] detected 1.69 million malware-infected android devices in South Africa last year. Within many popular apps, Malware is…
Kaspersky, a global cyber security company, shed some light on the challenges that modern parents can face while interacting in a digital space
In current times, during the Coronavirus pandemic, people have to stay home with their famil…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is delaying the production ramp-up of its flagship iPhones coming later this year by about a month as the coronavirus pandemic has weakened global consumer demand and disrupted manufacturing across Asia, the Wall Street …
Microsoft founder Bill Gates spoke to the Financial Times (via Fast Company) about how the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has shifted “almost entirely” to working on addressing COVID-19, in the interest of making the post imp…