Here's a word of warning to anybody applying for a US travel visa or Esta online.
The top search results in Google are not for the official application forms, but paid advertisements for commercial websites that charge more than five ti…
The brisk business Julius Kirya did from his cash transfer kiosk in the Ugandan capital has slowed right down with a new tax on mobile money. Many of his customers have returned to sending banknotes by hand, in some cases via motorbike tax…
The big accounting firms are under pressure from digital disruption just like every industry these days, but PwC is trying a proactive approach with a digital accelerator program designed to train employees for the next generation of jobs…
Emma, the U.K. money management app (or self-described “financial advocate”), is launching a cryptocurrency feature by integrating with a plethora of exchanges so that you can easily track your cryptocurrency balances. The idea is that a m…
More than 10 million tweets posted by suspected state-backed Russian and Iranian "troll farms" have been shared online by Twitter.
It has published more than 360GB of material to aid studies into how its platform has been used to try to…
Netflix Inc’s (NFLX.O) Indian operation drew attention in a surge of international subscribers in the third quarter, but it faces fierce competition and a difficult cultural conundrum to make inroads with the country’s more than one billio…
IBM Corp reported a bigger-than-expected drop in revenue on Tuesday, hit by slowing software sales and wavering demand for mainframe servers, pointing to a bumpy recovery for the technology services giant that is in the midst of a turnarou…
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) has become the first Chinese company to join an artificial intelligence (AI) ethics group led by top U.S. tech firms, amid wider political clashes over AI competition between China and the United St…
Universal Laser Systems, Inc. (ULS), a worldwide leading manufacturer of laser material processing systems, celebrates its 30th anniversary.
From establishment in 1988, its mission has been to advance the development and deployment of m…
Nearly 2 to 1 patients prefer AirFit F30 over the current minimal-contact full face market leader
ResMed (NYSE: RMD, ASX: RMD) today announced the availability of its first minimal-contact full face CPAP mask, AirFit F30, the latest add…
Huawei has decided not to use the wearable-tech version of Android in its latest smartwatch, opting instead for an in-house operating system.
The company said the decision to use Lite OS had been taken in part to maximise battery life.
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Google is dropping restrictions it imposed on Android-device-makers, following a clash with the EU.
It is ending a ban on manufacturers having a line-up that includes tablets and phones powered by alternative versions of the operating s…
A surge in the use of video chats and live-streaming among children is leaving them vulnerable to abuse, the NSPCC has warned, calling for a social network regulator to be introduced.
A survey of 40,000 children aged seven to 16 found a…
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Huawei released the high-accuracy wireless location solutions. Of these, the meter-level accuracy solution for commercial scenarios helps enterprises provide real-time optimal business experience based on customer r…
With the proliferation of smartphones, there’s a camera in everyone’s pocket these days. Taking a snapshot of lunch and uploading it to Instagram or sharing the image with friends over Facebook is a way of life for most people – old and yo…
Huawei Launches Next-Generation SD-WAN Routers, Simplifying Cloud and Network Interconnection for Enterprises
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Huawei launched its next-generation SD-WAN routers. The next-generation SD-WAN routers use a unified…
Software development and video game publisher PM Studios, partnered with the Playgroundz Foundation to help in the development of a new blockchain project.
Playgroundz is best described as a “Google” for videogames. It is a platform for…
Uber to double down on safety and roll out Safety Toolkit for riders and drivers across 38 countries, including Ghana
Features to include Safety Centre, Trusted Contacts, a driver emergency assistance button and customisable speed ale…
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Huawei launched its innovative S6720-HI series fixed switches, which are full-featured 10GE routing switches that come with 100G uplink and routing capabilities, and also unveiled high-performance cards for its feat…
Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer and Safari are all dropping support for older versions of the online security protocol TLS, used in practically any encrypted exchange online. While few people or machines are using the long-unsafe …
HMD Global, the home of Nokia phones is exciting many Ghanaians with the introduction of the new Nokia 2.1 with its unique features into the market.
The excitement on the new Nokia 2.1 is largely because the device combines an incr…
Huawei Launches Next-Generation SD-WAN Routers, Simplifying Cloud and Network Interconnection for Enterprises
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2018, Huawei launched its next-generation SD-WAN routers. The next-generation SD-WAN routers use a unified p…
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…
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…