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US Jury asks Apple to pay $503m in patent case

A jury in Texas on Friday decided that Apple should pay $503 million for infringing virtual private network technology patented by software security firm VirnetX. The legal battle between Apple and Nevada-based VirnetX involved data transmission security in devices such as iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, according to court documents. “We thank the jury for their time and appreciate…
November 1, 20200Comments

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Tech Platform Reynen Court Raises $4.5M as Big Law Sees Potential ‘Now More Than Ever’

Global venture capital fund Ventech led the financing round, joined by initial law firm investors Clifford Chance and Latham & Watkins, and investment company Prins. By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys and Rhys Dipshan Reynen Court, a legal tech platform that aims to be a centralized “app store” for a host of legal tech vendors, announced on Wednesday that it…
November 1, 20200Comments

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Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma” is not tailored for Africa’s internet reality

For a documentary proposing big-picture diagnoses of social media’s effect on the world, The Social Dilemma barely takes the 1.2 billion people in Africa into consideration. The 93-minute Netflix Original documentary dramatizes the backend of social media platforms as a dystopian neuroscience lab.  Among other things, it shows how digital juices are used to incite user engagement…
October 19, 20200Comments

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Future phone screens could be made of new and unbreakable transparent wood material

When smartphone manufacturers are busy with perfecting their folding smartphones, or the under-display camera, someone has found a new kind of material that can be made into phone screens in the future. A team of researchers has discovered that the balsa wood can become transparent and even made into phone screens after processed in a certain way. A researcher, Junyong Zhu from the…
October 10, 20200Comments

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Nigerians launch Myclinic.ng mobile App for medical consultation

A team of Nigerian technicians, entrepreneurs, medical doctors and pharmacists have launched Myclinic.ng, a healthcare solution that enables families and individuals to access high-quality healthcare from anywhere, anytime, in cost-effective and convenient manners through mobile phones. According to a co-founder of Myclinic.ng, Mr. Abubakar Hassan, the technology is built on the conviction that access to…
October 10, 20200Comments

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Data Protection Outfits Grow Nigeria’s GDP with N2bn in 365 Days, Says Minister

...Launches report on NDPR performance By Mohammed Mohammed The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Ibrahim Pantami, has commended Data Protection Compliance Organizations (DPCOs) for adding over N2 billilon to the Nigerian economy within a year. At launch of the report on the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation appraisal in Abuja, he recalled that in…
October 10, 20200Comments

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