Telecoms
Sep 28,
2016
Ajax’s 5-0 cup victory against fellow Dutch premier division side Willem II on September 21 saw a first in football: the official world debut for a video assistant referee in…
Sep 27,
2016
Passengers traveling through various airports in the Ghana cannot use or charge their Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones on-board flights and are banned from stowing them in any checked baggage.…
Sep 23,
2016
Yahoo Inc said on Thursday that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it believed was a state-sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to…
Sep 21,
2016
Google said it will hold a media event in San Francisco next month, where it is expected to unveil its new flagship phone. The October 4 event was announced in…
Sep 19,
2016
The Broadband Commission of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has ranked Ghana as the third country in Africa with the highest active mobile-broadband subscriptions, according to the Commission’s ‘The state…
Sep 16,
2016
South African mobile phone operator MTN Group has pulled the plug on its local mobile money business, saying it was not viable in a country where around three quarters of…
Sep 15,
2016
A Huawei P8 Lite smartphone has saved the life of its owner, who was shot in the chest by armed muggers, by taking a bullet for him. Huawei P8 Lite…
Sep 14,
2016
Untold numbers of relics from our human past lie along cattle paths, on farms and in remote expanses across Africa. These include fossilised bones of ancients and the animals they…
Sep 13,
2016
As the price of oil continues to nosedive globally and the Nigerian economy is in recession, this has resulted to cutting in government expenditure and the loss of jobs. But…
Sep 06,
2016
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) augmented and virtual reality market will grow strongly over the next five years, posting annual growth rates of more than 100% across the 2016–2020…
Sep 05,
2016
Nokia has issued the Nokia Threat Intelligence Report – H1 2016, revealing a sharp rise in the occurrence of smartphone malware infections in the first half of the year. Mobile…
Aug 29,
2016
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe's mobile financial service platform -- Ecocash has transacted over $16 billion in the last four years. According to the group's latest annual report, the mobile money platform's…
Aug 27,
2016
Following her recent visit to Ghana, Cynthia Gordon, the CEO of Millicom Africa has emphasised the remarkable growth opportunities in data and Tigo’s commitment to giving customers access to superior…
Aug 26,
2016
Zain South Sudan, a unit of Kuwait’s largest mobile-phone provider, has reduced operations and cut its number of expatriate staff in an attempt to survive an economic crisis in the…
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