Nigeria took centre stage last week as search giant Google partnered with Infinix mobility, Africa's leading online store Jumia, and Africa's leading mobile network, MTN to launch the Hot 2, the first Android One Phone in Africa.
Nigeria is rarely on the centre stage of global tech news, but on August 18, Google with its partners shun the spotlight on the country. The big event was the expansion of Google's Android One program to Africa and the launch of the first phone to support the standard in Africa.
Google began the Android One program last year in India. The aim of...
A notorious Italy based surveillance company, Hacking Team, that helps governments and their agencies spy on citizens got first hand knowledge of how we all feel when our privacy is breached this week.
Hacking Team got hacked this week and had 500GB of internal files, software, and communications made public. The hack revealed the company's clients which included countries like Australia, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Switzerland, Thailand, UAE, United States, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Oman, Panama, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam....
Battery life is a big head-ache for mobile users, but this week Samsung announced its working on a respite. The South Korean company revealed it is working on a technology that will double the battery life of the Li-ion battery.
According to reports Samsung researchers used graphene to enhance the battery density, achieving 1.5 to 1.8 times the battery density of normal Li-ion battery.
Samsung had another cheering news this week as it announced it sold over 1 million Tizen-powered Z1 Smartphones since January 2015. This is a promising start for the new operating system considering that the figure is only...
In this first edition of the NaijaTechGuide Weekly technology news roundup we will look at a roundup of all the topical tech stories that we covered on our brand new tech news site, which you can checkout at news.naijatechguide.com.
Last week, the takeover of the machines had some setback with reports that Twitter is favouring a human curated newsfeed over machine algorithm in the Twitter Project Lightning aimed at offering a better experience to users.
However, the machines bounced back this week Monday with Amazon announcing that it will be relying on machine learning algorithms in order to surface the best...
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Nigeria took centre stage last week as search giant Google partnered with Infinix mobility, Africa's leading online store Jumia, and Africa's leading mobile network,...
A notorious Italy based surveillance company, Hacking Team, that helps governments and their agencies spy on citizens got first hand knowledge of how we...
NaijaTechGuide, one of Nigeria's leading tech blog will be rewarding fans on Facebook throughout the month of November. From Monday to Thursday each week...
