Should you keep using WhatsApp? Plus five tips to start the year with your digital privacy intact

We spoke to convicted hacker turned security consultant Kevin Mitnick to find out how to maintain your security online If you use the popular messaging service WhatsApp you may have noticed a pop-up message in recent days asking you to accept the service’s new terms and conditions by 8 February in order to continue using it. The…

January 16, 20210Comments

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WhatsApp and Facebook’s ultimatum to users reveals a privacy disaster

There’s been a lot of confusion and outrage on social media over an in-app notification that informed WhatsApp users that the messaging app’s privacy terms had changed. Users of the application have no choice but to adopt the new terms, or the software will delete itself on February 8. Because privacy terms are so lengthy, convoluted, and complex in…

January 15, 20210Comments

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Indigenous cab hailing app, NAIRAXI, debuts in Abuja to reinvent services with tech

Taxi operators in Abuja have highlighted their changing roles as they are beginning to adopt technology processes to boost service delivery and revenue growth. Speaking at the unveiling of NAIRAXI, an indigenous on-demand ride-hailing and logistics service, in Abuja, they analysed how advanced technologies presented the unprecedented transformation of the cab industry. According to Shehu…

January 12, 2021212Comments

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African man creates messaging app that is faster than whatsapp

A US-based Sierra Leonean, Hafiz Alhassan Kanu has created an app called Supfrica. The app is a replica of WhatsApp but also 2× faster than the popular app when features like message, voice and video calls were compared. The app was released on Google Play Store last year, December 11, 2020, by Techfrica, a company…

January 10, 202112Comments

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WhatsApp Will Stop Working On The Underlisted Phones From Jan 1st 2021 ( What You Need To Do)

WhatsApp users who use the app on an iPhone 4 or older and outdated Android handsets will be unable to use the app properly as of January 1, 2021. The Facebook-owned messaging platform is stopping support for iOS 9, the operating software released by Apple in 2015.” A new WhatsApp update will prevent the popular…

December 31, 20200Comments

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China-Based Zoom Employee Charged For Secretly Censoring Tiananmen Square Anniversary Events

A China-based former Zoom employee is being charged with harassment for allegedly disrupting video calls commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Brooklyn federal prosecutors unsealed a case against Xinjiang (also known as Julien) Jin today. The complaint doesn’t identify Jin’s employer, but Zoom published a blog post acknowledging that it employed him. According to the…

December 21, 20200Comments

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UK To Impose Tougher Rules On Google, Facebook

Britain announced Friday it will set up a watchdog to regulate tech giants such as Facebook and Google and improve their transparency on using people’s data and personalised advertising. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport said in a statement that the new regulator, the Digital Markets Unit, will “govern the behaviour of platforms that…

November 27, 20200Comments

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Thank you for training us, but give our people tech jobs, VP tells Chinese company

The idea of a partnership between the Federal Government and technology companies to develop an eco-system of competent Nigerians working in the service sector and even outsourcing their expertise abroad is a welcome development and a step in the right direction in job creation. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, stated this during a virtual courtesy…

November 27, 2020133Comments

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Google-IFC report estimates Africa’s Internet economy can hit $180bn by 2025

LAGOS (Sundiata Post) — e-Conomy Africa 2020, a new report released on Wednesday by Google and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), estimates that Africa’s Internet economy has the potential to reach 5.2% of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025, contributing nearly $180 billion to its economy. The projected potential contribution could reach $712…

November 12, 202014Comments

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Pantami urges accountants to embrace disruptive technology in execution of activities

Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has called on the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) to adopt the use of disruptive technology in the execution of accounting activities. He made this call on Tuesday during his virtual remarks as the Keynote Speaker at the 25th Annual Conference of…

November 4, 2020150Comments

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