Tech

Urges users to download apps only from official sites, stores A MALWARE that steals Facebook account credentials, known as ‘Schoolyard Bully’, has infected over 300,000 android devices. This has prompted the Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) to issue an advisory, reminding users to only download applications from official sites and application stores. The advisory recommended that …

WASHINGTON— Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a “major scientific breakthrough” Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it, something called net energy gain, …

Global telecom leaders came together to discuss how changing user behavior is compelling Nigerian brands to rewrite the way they connect and engage with their customers. In the post pandemic years, researches have shown that consumers want brands to become more empathetic, be accessible anytime, anywhere, and deliver personalized experiences every time.  However, doing this at scale, with millions of …

•Over 50,000 telecom infrastructure destroyed in five yrs The general knowledge on the street is that 5G will make the telecommunication a lot easier in terms of connections, data management social interactions. But, it appears that is not totally going to be the case as telcos are expressing frustration with the way and manner their facilities are being shut down, …

The Director General/CEO National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Mr Kashifu Abdullahi, on Tuesday, said despite numerous challenges bedeviling the country, Nigeria remains a major global supplier of tech talents. This is coming as a United States, U.S. based tech giant, Google, unveiled 60 Africa Startups grantees of its second cohort Black Founders Fund, BFF, initiative. Abdullahi who spoke at …

The communications minister says the planned excise duty on telecommunication services has been suspended. The federal government has suspended the proposed new tax on phone calls and other telecommunications services. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, announced this on Monday. He said the planned excise duty on telecommunication services has been suspended. Mr Pantami spoke at the inaugural …

The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye has identified the deployment of technology as crucial to the fight against corruption and Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). Owasanoye, made this known at the presentation of demo- hacking solutions by seven innovators at Abuja.The IFFs Hackathon is an initiative of the ICPC and the …

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Information and Communication Technology (ICT),sector had contributed 18.44 per cent to the ‘Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product Report’ for Q2 2022. Dr Femi Adeluyi, Technical Assistant Research and Development to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Adeluyi said that the digital economy sector …

Yesterday, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc kicked off an open Fifth-Generation (5G) pilot in the lead-up to its highly anticipated commercial launch. The company, which intends to launch 5G services in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano, Owerri and Maiduguri, is testing the next-generation network infrastructure. Customers with certain enabled devices will be allowed to connect with and try out the …

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”— Buckminster Fuller Over a century ago, when Scottish inventor cum scientist, Alexander Graham Bell, was experimenting in his laboratory, he thought he was testing the validity of an idea that raced through the neutral pathways of his brain, …