Which is fine! Not everyone can or should be an engineer. And as Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Our collective network of pocket supercomputers, communicating almost instantaneously across the globe, comes pretty close to “sufficiently advanced” on its good days. The mathematics of tech Most people don’t understand how technology works. When they flip a light switch, or tap their phone, what happens next is essentially magic to them. Oh, they may be able to handwave a bit about electrons and volts and microprocessors and radio waves and packet-switched networks, but they’re…
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A group of experts at Afimobi Nigeria has created a wireless platform which will create job opportunities and provide more space for Nigerian entrepreneurs through the plethora of fun apps, music, movie, business and digital content hosted on ‘magical fun box’ and designed for Plamplay offline TM. The mobile and internet tech established in Accra, Lagos, and Nairobi has clearly made the point that it has planned to found an African market built around wireless hub. However, the market will enable their users to download movies, films, apps, pictures. How does this work? It works without expending your mobile data.…
Ghanaian government in alliance with ministry of communication has designed a plan to build a data centre in Ghana. The data centre was conceived as an idea to be the largest of its type in West African sub region. The working capacity of the data centre is to be a 500 rack space national centre. However, the data centre is going to serve both the private and public sectors in the country. While the secondary data is located in Kumasi, the data centre is to be build adjacent Kofi Anaan ICT centre of Excellence and is also in close proximity…
According to MTN Business, in a world where more and more of our daily critical activities are increasingly done on the go, mobile devices have emerged the next viable platform which today’s marketing professionals interested in delivering effective integrated marketing communications campaigns can no longer afford to ignore or leave out. New message This was the key message that came across at the recently held Mobile Media Advertising Opportunities Forum, organised in Lagos by MTN Business, the business-to-business unit of MTN Nigeria, in collaboration with InTarget Africa. The forum further highlighted the value of the MTN Mobile Ads service, which…
“Mobile data traffic is soaring worldwide, more than tripling by 2018,” said Jessica Ekholm, research director at Gartner. “New, fast mobile data connections (3G and 4G) will grow more slowly, from 3.8 billion in 2015 to 5.1 billion in 2018, as users switch from slower 2G connections and consume more mobile data.” According to Gartner, Inc. global mobile data traffic is set to reach 52 million terabytes (TB) in 2015, an increase of 59 per cent from 2014. The rapid growth is set to continue through 2018, when mobile data levels are estimated to reach 173 million TB. Gartner analysts…
Do you think you need to give your business a social security? Please read this! Sutherland asserts, it is imperative for an organisation to consult with a reputable insurance provider to ensure that all the possible vulnerabilities and threats relating to the business and the industry have been taken into account to avoid the financial and reputational risks of cybercrime. The need for African and global businesses to ensure that they are adequately protected from cybercrime has been brought to light once again following the recent hack of notorious dating website Ashley Madison. It is estimated that more than 37…
Your new Microsoft Windows upgrade In the spate of tune up, update, and upgrade in computer software, Microsoft, the software giant, is bringing you live experience of its new Windows upgrade service, Windows 10 and more. The new upgrade feature is readied to be launched into use by 29th of July, 2015. With this new development on ground, Windows is telling, you can enjoy a more posh experience with new Windows 10 upgrade feature with latest updates that chance you a better space of enjoying your computer. Worrying about the time for this upgrade? You don’t have to. Windows 10…
You have obviously read this. You have obviously heard about the monstrous boost that telecommunication has added to Nigerian economy. For a time, get the data right. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that the telecommunication sector contributed NGN 1.34 billion to the Nigerian economy in the first quarter of the year. Statistic report According to the report, NBS found that the sector records a monthly growth rate average of 0.95 percent. The first quarter of 2015 recorded a real growth rate of 5.36 percent, a rise of 0.61 percentage points from the 2014 average growth rate of…
MainOne’s CEO Funke Opeke who was suitably represented by Temitope Osunrinde said, there is gender inequality in the representational pattern in computer and software development. She added the ratio of this sex identification can be placed at 7:3 compared to the male gender as observed in the gender study pattern of global Technology report. Gender technology MainOne, again, is sponsoring the Women Technology Empowerment camp. This is the second time the organisation would grant absolute support for the Technology Camp. The camp is geared toward mentoring and educating girls in computers and software development. The camp is to assist a…
According to a source, Dr. Achilefu, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering, and his team developed the imaging technology for cancer diagnosis into a wearable device. The device is intended to help surgeons view cancer cells while operating. Superior discovery This probably might be old news by now. However, the curiosity is still there. Sit down and enjoy this news nugget of Nigerian born genius. Nigerian-born scientist, Samuel Achilefu, has been awarded the prestigious 2014 Louis Award for creating cancer-seeing glasses. This is according to premiumtimesng.com. “They basically have to operate in the dark,” Bloomberg Businessweek quoted Dr. Achilefu as…