If you miss the old AOL chat rooms, you’ll love Facebook’s plan to combine Groups and Messenger without spamming you to death. Starting today, Facebook will gradually roll out the ability for members of Facebook Groups to launch group c…
Offering new unlicensed fixed LTE network operation to service providers
Telrad Networks (TASE:TLRD), a global provider of innovative LTE telecom solutions, today announced the launch of their new 5 GHz, unlicensed band, LTE solution an…
Earlier this week at its annual hardware event, Google announced a number of new features for its Assistant coming to the new Pixel 3 phones and Google’s own Home Hub smart display. As it turns out, though, Google didn’t pull back the cur…
There’s always been a gap between how much money Apple’s App Store makes when compared with Google Play. But in the third quarter of 2018, that gap widened considerably – possibly to the widest point yet. According to a new report from Se…
The effortless way you fast forward through Stories could be coming to more of Instagram . A screenshot from user Suprateek Bose shows Instagram “Introducing a new way to move through posts — Tap through posts, just like you tap through st…
On a hot morning in India’s tourist mecca of Jaipur, an open truck painted in the signature lime-green colors of Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service pulls into a dusty lane, where five men spill out and begin to perform a skit.
The ev…
Researchers at Indiana University have confirmed that stringent password policies – aside from being really annoying – actually work. The research, led by Ph.D. student Jacob Abbott, IU CIO Daniel Calarco, and professor L. Jean Camp. They …
This time instead of exposing users’ data, a Facebook bug erased it. A previously undisclosed Facebook glitch caused it to delete some users’ Live videos if they tried to post them to their Story and the News Feed after finishing their br…
IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, today announces its partnership with JCB, the only international payment brand based in Japan, to launch Google Pay in Japan.
Users will be able to make contactless mobile payme…
According to Djire, retail currently accounts for 16% of the Nigerian GDP and is viewed by many as a new frontier of growth for local and international investors
The convergence of AI, tech, and data on Nigeria’s multi-billion dollar pl…
China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world’s largest telecom-equipment maker, plans to invest 1 billion yuan ($145 million) over the next three year to develop artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for its cloud business, it said on…
Apple is adding 300 computer chip engineers to its team after striking a deal to hire them from one of its British suppliers.
It is paying Dialog Semiconductor $300m (£227m) for the acquisition, which also includes some of the Reading-b…
Facebook has removed more than 800 pages and accounts that sought to profit from politically themed spam.
In a blog, Facebook said the 559 pages and 251 accounts abused the network to try to make people visit sites that make money from …
Assembly of first Ford Ranger Raptor trial units, as build-up continues towards full-scale production
Culmination of R3-billion investment and extensive upgrades to Silverton Assembly Plant
Additional R160-mill…
This new solution achieves proactive experience management, automated closed-loop fault resolution, and fast defense against unknown threats by building a more intelligent, simple, and secure enterprise campus network.
Before the upco…
NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) announced today that it has added Wi-Fi® functionality to its Japan Welcome SIMTM prepaid SIM card service to provide travelers to Japan with fast and easy access to “docomo Wi-Fi” hotspots nationwide without any …
Theft of cryptocurrencies through hacking of exchanges and trading platforms soared to $927 million in the first nine months of the year, up nearly 250 percent from the level seen in 2017, according to a report from U.S.-based cyber securi…
Nigerian journalist Frank Eleanya Wins APO Group Invitation to Attend the Web Summit 2018, the Largest Tech Conference in the World
Each year APO Group offers journalists the opportunity to attend major events as a part of its commitmen…
Hexagon's Geospatial division is pleased to announce the launch of its total Population and Housing Census (PHC) management and workflow solution, HxGN Smart Census.
This new solution makes each phase of the census process smarter and m…
Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service said on Wednesday it has fixed the latest bug on its platform that allowed hackers to take over users’ applications when they answered an incoming video call.
The announcement follows reports fr…
Haptics as an industry has been resurgent over the last three years. After a long period of relative inactivity where haptics research was confined to a relatively tight group of companies and academics, the industry has been transformed …
Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants’ resumes with the aim of me…
Last month, at Google’s 20th anniversary event, the company's head of search quickly shut down my question about the firm's ambitions in China.
We'd heard, thanks to a slew of credible leaks, that the firm was developing a search engine…
Netcracker Business Cloud Enables Service Providers to Fast Track Digital Transformation and Deliver High-Value Cloud B2B Services
Netcracker Technology announced today the launch of a game-changing new solution: the Netcracker Business…
Google is fighting a record €4.3bn ($4.9bn; £3.8bn) fine for allegedly using the Android operating system to "cement its dominance" as a search engine.
In July, the European Commission said Google's Android policies had "denied rivals t…
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday its expanded Azure cloud service to help government clients save data on their own servers would be available by the end of the first quarter of 2019, as it battles with Amazon.com for a $10 billion …
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday unveiled the third edition of its Pixel smartphone, a Google Home smart speaker with a display and its first tablet computer as it makes a come-from-behind push into hardware.
The company’s Android softw…
Google is shutting down much of its social network, Google+, after user data was left exposed.
It said a bug in its software meant information that people believed was private had been accessible by third parties.
Google said up to 5…
Huawei Releases the Industry's Highest-Density 100GE Fixed Switch to Redefine Small and Medium-Sized Data Center Networks
Before the upcoming HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Huawei released the CE9860X 128-port 100GE fixed data center switch wit…
Microsoft is ending support for Minecraft on Apple TV.
The app arrived on the device two years ago and cost £20 in the UK.
In an on-screen message to players the firm said it was "reallocating resources" to more popular platforms, an…
Google has abandoned efforts to win a $10bn (£7.7bn) Pentagon cloud computing contract.
The firm said the work might have transgressed principles it published in June limiting its artificial-intelligence-related activities.
Thousands…
Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Monday released a smart speaker designed to ease video calls, but the company’s history of privacy mishaps and the device’s price and limited functionality could slow it from taking on market leaders Amazon.com Inc (…
A lot of secure sites are set to grind to a halt with security error messages in the next version of Google Chrome, after the browser will drop trust for a major HTTPS certificate provider following a series of security incidents.
Ch…
Facebook is launching two video call machines for the home in the midst of its latest data breach scandal.
The Portal products automatically zoom in on users and follow them as they move, to offer a superior experience to existing smart…
SAP Africa Code Week 2018, launched in Johannesburg to drive sustainable digital skills development in 36 African countries
The fourth edition of the increasingly popular Africa Code Week, an initiative of SAP, kicked-off today at a f…
Just when we were getting used to the regular stream of controversial statements spouted by Kanye West, he's disappeared from social media.
It looks like he deleted his Twitter and Instagram accounts on Saturday night.
The rapper, wh…
The High Court has blocked a bid to sue Google for allegedly unlawfully taking data from 4.4 million UK iPhone users.
The legal case was mounted by a group called Google You Owe Us, led by former Which director Richard Lloyd.
It soug…
Amazon’s Alexa app has just been given a major visual overhaul, largely focused on helping users set up and control their smart home. From the app’s new devices tab, users can view all their different Alexa-enabled devices and groups on on…
Snapchat-owner’s shares up ~4 pct at $8.10 in premarket, showing signs of recovery after touching their all-time low on Thursday
CEO Evan Spiegel aims to achieve full-year profitability in 2019 by betting on older users, revamped market…
The European Parliament has voted in favor of a new quota for content on streaming services. Services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, will have to make sure that at least 30 percent of their catalogs in Europe come from European…
If you ever wanted to use your Google Assistant to book a ride with Uber or Lyft, your wishes have been heard. Starting today, you’ll be able to use your voice to ask Google’s virtual assistant to book you a car from Uber, Lyft, Ola, …
Statistically speaking, there are roughly five podcasts for every human on the face of the Earth. And now they all finally have a home on Spotify. The streaming music giant this week opened podcast submissions to everyone through the beta …
Lenovo and ZTE Corp shares slid on Friday, hurt by worries about overseas sales after Bloomberg reported that the systems of multiple U.S. companies had been compromised by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese spies.
In a report…
As water shortages become more common around the world, the laundry industry is under pressure to reduce consumption of this precious resource and generally minimise its environmental impact.
When Johannesburg native Charl de Beer moved…
Default passwords such as "admin" and "password" will be illegal for electronics firms to use in California from 2020.
The state has passed a law that sets higher security standards for net-connected devices made or sold in the region.
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When your feed and Stories trays go stale, or your follower count stops rising, you drift away from Instagram . That’s why the app is rolling out two big new features designed to connect you to new people and diversify your graph so there’…
Former Love Island contestant Olivia Buckland has become the latest reality TV star to fall foul of the UK's advertising watchdog, after she failed to specify one of her Instagram posts had been sponsored by a brand.
But disciplinary ac…
After 12 years developing hydrogen propulsion systems for small unmanned aircraft, HES Energy Systems is today unveiling its plans for Element One, the world’s first regional hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft.
One century after the s…
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) are teaming up to develop self-driving car services, signaling deepening alliances between top automaker and tech firms as the global race to develop autonomous cars intensifies.
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