Africa is emerging as a lively battlefield for global cloud providers. This week, Microsoft’s Azure Africa cloud services went live, with services offered from data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The launch of Azure came just on…
Its SPARK 3 Pro is a 4G smartphone with AI Bright Camera and 32GB ROM + 2GB RAM
Global premier mobile phone brand TECNO Mobile (www.TECNO-Mobile.com) announced plans at Google IO 2019 which will see its SPARK 3 Pro running on Android™ P…
The German hybrid specialist DHYBRID will supply seven PV-diesel hybrid systems in remote Senegalese locations with sophisticated hybrid control and energy storage systems. The total output capacity is 2 MW, the storage capacity 2 MWh. The…
Microsoft today announced the private preview launch of Visual Studio Online, an online code editor the company is positioning as a companion to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
The service is based on the Visual Studio Code, Mic…
Apple may be bringing an Android favorite to iOS at its software developers conference next month. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has published a big list of little software tweaks his sources say are coming to iOS at WWDC.
One of the more in…
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it has launched a four-month program in Israel to help startups grow globally using its experts and tools.
The Google Startup Growth Lab Programme has picked eight companies, after a pilot was compl…
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it cannot confirm the shipping date for its foldable device Galaxy Fold yet and apologized to its pre-order customers in the United States for the delay.
The world’s top smartphone maker delayed globa…
The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably "tiny", a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests.
Family, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, says the University of Oxfor…
A new feature in Microsoft's Word aims to help improve writing beyond the usual grammar fixes.
Using artificial intelligence, Ideas will suggest rewrites for clunky sentences as well as changes to make sure language is gender inclusive.…
Optiva Inc. (TSX: OPT), an innovative software provider of mission-critical, cloud-native, monetization solutions to leading communication service providers (CSPs) globally, is advising CSPs at TM Forum Digital Transformation World that te…
Leading East African transportation company deploys powerful ERP solution to improve visibility across organisation and unlock greater efficiencies in daily operations.
With the tenth-fastest growing economy in the world this year, Keny…
Flintstone Technology Ltd has delivered an in-line tensioning and pull through connection mooring system for MODEC in West Africa.
The system will be deployed on Tullow Oil’s Kwame Nkrumah MV21 floating production storage and offloading…
The spat between Spotify and Apple is going to be the focus on a new investigation from the EU, according to a report from the FT.
The paper reported today that the European Commission (EC), the EU’s regulatory body, plans to launch …
May is national Older Americans Month, and this year’s theme is Connect, Create, Contribute. One area in particular threatens to prevent older adults from making those connections: the digital divide.
Nationally, one-third of adults age…
German carmaker Volkswagen will join forces with China’s NIU to produce battery-powered kick scooters, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday without giving sources.
The companies will jointly build the Streetmate model, which has…
Dropbox started shifting workloads away from AWS to its own data centers several years ago because it needed more control over how files were stored and accessed. It developed a storage architecture called Magic Pocket to help, but over ti…
A leaked image of the unannounced Moto Z4 suggests that the phone could be the first flagship Moto Z device to have a headphone jack. Outside of the 3.5mm connector, the handset appears to support Motorola’s Moto Mod accessories — includin…
Microsoft today announced that it wants to bring the ease of use of Plug and Play, which today allows you to plug virtually any peripheral into a Windows PC without having to worry about drivers, to IoT devices. Typically, getting an Io…
If it seems like robocalls are getting worse, it’s not simply your imagination. Over 48 billion robocalls were placed in the US last year, which is 46 percent more than just a year earlier. The US agency in charge of protecting consumers f…
Bitcoin jumped to a new six-month high on Friday in a move that traders said was the result of technical forces, with no immediate news catalysts sending the cryptocurrency higher.
Bitcoin climbed more than 6 percent to briefly break $5…
The Federal Trade Commission is in the midst of negotiating a settlement with Facebook that would require the company to strengthen its privacy practices by creating new privacy-focused positions at the company, according to a new report…
YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl reaffirmed the company’s plans to take its Originals out from behind the paywall, making them free and ad-supported.
Kyncl was speaking at YouTube’s annual Brandcast event, where the Google…
Three years and a few dozen reviews ago, I declared the Bang & Olufsen H6 the best portable headphones you could buy. As if to spite me, B&O ended up discontinuing the H6s in favor of some wireless mediocrities, and I’ve been stuck without…
Global security officials agreed a set of proposals on Friday for future 5G networks, highlighting concerns about equipment supplied by vendors that might be subject to state influence.
No suppliers were named, but the United States has…
There’s nothing about HP’s 2019 Chromebook 14 that’s flashy or makes it stand out among the field of inexpensive Chromebooks. It’s a hefty, plasticy laptop that, at $329 as reviewed, will appeal to schools and other use cases where the s…
The Apple Watch Series 4 is currently $349 from Amazon and Best Buy. This is $50 less than the usual cost of the wearable, which has a 40mm watchface and GPS capability. If you want the larger 44mm model, it is $379, which is also $50 off …
A donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.
Many see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Afr…
In 1995, French anthropologist Marc Auge categorised the airport as a “non-place”. Found the world over, non-places are devoid of identity – uniform structures (think Starbucks or McDonalds) that remain the same no matter where they are. B…
DHL is launching an e-commerce app called DHL Africa eShop for global retailers to sell goods to Africa’s consumers markets.
The platform goes live today and brings more than 200 U.S. and U.K. retailers — from Neiman Marcus to Carter…
ABB Robotics to provide advanced robotics painting solutions to SAIC VOLKSWAGEN, helping to build first global New Energy Vehicle (NEV) factory characterized by automation and environmentally-friendly manufacturing technologies.
ABB sig…
Tesla Inc launched issues of new shares and debt worth more than $2 billion on Thursday, with Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk pitching in $10 million as the electric carmaker gave in to Wall Street pressure to bolster its cash reserves.
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Nobody else in Silicon Valley has such absolute power over a technology giant.
Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder, chief executive, board chairman and majority shareholder of Facebook, the most-populated social network in the world.
F…
Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company’s earnings call with investors. The streaming service today is announcing the launch of voice-enabled advertisements, which will encour…
Jeremy Hunt pays his first visit to Africa as Foreign Secretary, travelling to 5 countries: Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya.
new £4 million programme for English language teaching in sub-Saharan Africa
Jeremy Hunt annou…
Google is to offer users the option of automatically deleting their search and location history after three months.
The search giant already allows users to manually delete the data it scoops up when they use its products such as YouTub…
“We believe the training and collaboration with teachers around the world will be absolute key to increasing the adoption more rapidly, and could easily lead to millions of students using VR globally to learn science more effectively.” – M…
Make beautiful memories in a click with the Canon EOS 250D, the world’s lightest DSLR with a moveable screen
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The days when people camped outside stores to get their hands on the latest smartphone may well be numbered, if recent sales figures are anything to go by.
Despite a dazzling array of new devices on display at the recent Mobile World Co…
Earlier this month, Beats unveiled its long-awaited answer to AirPods. The Powerbeats Pro feature far longer battery life, better sound and an improved fit. The Apple subsidiary promised a May release, and now we’ve got something more conc…
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1. Spotify Q1 hits 100M paying users, 217M …
China’s massive fintech industry took a beating in recent months as the government continued to wind down online lending nationwide, rattling investor confidence.
Funding for fintech startups shrank 87.6 percent year-over-year to $192.1…
Alphabet’s Q1 earnings were a disappointment for Wall Street, courtesy primarily of ad revenue shortcomings. The hardware team met with some difficulties, as well, owing in part to a stagnating global smartphone market that has impacted vi…
Google has a simple, yet subtle, reason for its anticipated push into the midrange smartphone market: there’s too much competition in the high-end one.
Next month, on the first day of its I/O developer conference, Google is expected to …
The Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and the Chairman of Huawei’s Supervisory Board, Li Jie met at the Prime Minister's Office and conducted in-depth talks regarding new capital smart city construction related technologies and prac…
Nigeria based startup Tizeti, an internet service provider, today launched WifiCall.ng—an internet voice-calling platform for individuals and businesses.
WifiCall is a VoIP—or Voice over Internet Protocol—subscription service that allow…
Telecommunication company Orange has launched the “Orange Digital Centre” in Tunisia’s capital Tunis, a place built around a completely new concept and entirely dedicated to innovation.
The Orange Digital Centre has been set-up as a cen…
Samsung has unveiled a TV that switches from a horizontal, landscape-style orientation to vertical - so it can easily display smartphone content.
The 43in device is called Sero and comes with an integrated easel-like stand upon which th…
Every drone and model aircraft owner in the UK could be charged £16.50 a year under plans by the aviation regulator.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is consulting on introducing a licence fee to cover the costs of operating the new d…
TalkTalk has failed to improve its standing on customer complaints in Ofcom's annual survey - the broadband provider has come bottom of the table for the third year running.
In 2017 it shared the honour with Virgin Media, but in 2018 an…
Canon Central and North Africa has announced the next generation of uniFLOW Online – 2019.1 - enabling partners of all sizes to meet the evolving cloud requirements of their customers.
Designed to address market demand for cloud-based …
