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- 19 May 2013
Android, iOS Claim 92.3% Smartphone OS Shipments in Q1 2013
Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked Smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all Smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) as Windows…
- 25 Jan 2013
Nokia Crawls Back into Profit in Q4
Nokia has released its fourth-quarter and full year financial reports - and announced that for the fourth-quarter of the year, revenues fell by 20 per cent to EUR8.04 billion, and net profits jumped…
- 20 Apr 2010
Nokia Features Social Networking, Messaging on New Phones
Nokia has globally introduced three new handsets – the Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 – designed to put better messaging and social networking tools in the hands of more people around…
- 17 Aug 2010
New Economy Will Be Driven By ICT-Okoye
Nicholas Okoye is the managing director of Anabel Mobile Group, a mobile platform, mobile technology and mobile device manufacturing company. He worked in the United States as a stock broker and as a…
- 14 Feb 2012
ICT Rings End Time for Boko Haram
At the onset they appeared untouchables. Some people as with Nigerian mentality began alluding voodoo to their existence thereby giving them some semblance of invisibility that the security agencies…
- 21 Feb 2012
Boko Haram: Experts Chide Group over Threat to Telcos
Telecom experts have chided Boko Haram, which claims responsibility for deadliest attacks in the country and urged concerted efforts to protect telecommunications equipment to avert possible…
- 19 Sept 2012
Truecaller Get $1.3mFunding from Open Ocean
Truecaller, a global crowdsourced phone directory, with millions of users that currently perform more than 120 million searches each month, has just announced receiving $1.3…
- 17 Jan 2013
Cortado Out with First MDM Configurable with PowerShell
Cortado Corporate Server 6.1, with its unique combination of MDM, file sharing and desktop features, continues to simplify IT processes. Cortado, leading provider of cloud desktop services, today…
- 20 Feb 2013
CcHub Out with State-of-the-art Mobile App Testing Facility
Co-Creation Hub, Nigeria’s first open living pre-incubation space has launched a state-of-the-art mobile app testing facility to support the development and deployment of agile user-centric mobile…
- 27 Jul 2013
Record 230m smartphones Shipped in Q2
Global smartphone shipments jumped 47 per cent to 229.6 million in Q2 2013 from 156.5 million units in Q2 2012, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, with Samsung accounting for…
- 2 Aug 2013
Jobberman, Afmobi Create Mega Chat Room for Jobs
Jobberman.com, the jobs website with the largest catalogue of jobs in Nigeria has entered into a partnership Afmobi, the makers of PalmChat to power the first digital mega chat room on employment…
- 21 Oct 2013
Nokia Partners Etisalat, Etihad for Launch of Lumia 1020
Mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia has moved to delight another market segment with its high end Lumia 1020 Smartphone that boasts of 41-megapixel camera which makes it the ultimate camera phone. The…
- 20 Jan 2014
Layer3, AirWatch Partner for Mobile Device Security
Layer3, a leading network solutions and managed service provider, has announced its partnership with AirWatch, the global leader in enterprise-grade Mobile Device Management, Mobile Application…
- 20 Apr 2014
Nigeria Fights Back Malaria with ICT Solutions
Mobile Software Solutions Limited, a Nigerian start-up has demonstrated how technology is making such a difference in the global efforts to control and eliminate malaria and called for increased…
- 9 Feb 2014
MDG, Local Solutions Hunts for Mosquitoes
Malaria Destroyer Game (MDG), a tech solution aimed at addressing the malaria challenge, rings hope for the long battle against the plague which is systematically thinning Nigeria’s population.…
- 26 Feb 2014
Dropbox Updating Its Policy
Dropbox, a file hosting service operated by Dropbox Incorporated has hinted on its intention to updates the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy with effect from March 24. Dropbox is known for its…
- 3 May 2014
All New Viruses Now Targeting Android Users
Over 99% of new mobile threats discovered by F Secure Labs in the first quarter of 2014 targeted Android users according to the anti virus vendor's new Mobile Threat Report. A total of 277 new threat…
- 21 Jul 2014
Etisalat Excites Subscribers with Vringo Services
Etisalat Nigeria is out to excite customers in the Nigerian telecoms market with a special video ringtone service called ‘Vringo’. The new product allows subscribers to customise their caller tunes…
- 12 Jun 2015
Visafone Launches MVOIP App
Visafone Communication Limited has launched an Internet-powered voice, video and messaging solution for smartphones, tablets and windows PC. The solution is an app that provides borderless…
- 11 May 2016
WhatsApp Rolls Out Desktop App
WhatsApp, Facebook-owned messaging app, has launched a desktop application that mirrors conversations and messages from a user's smartphone device. The new desktop application is available for users…
- 24 Mar 2017
Mara Acquires “Nimbuzz” Global Instant Messaging & Communications Platform
Mara Social Media, an African multi-channel platform of online and mobile tech innovations that are designed to connect people across emerging markets, has announced this week that it has acquired…
- 24 Apr 2017
Kilimall, Major e-Commerce Site Enters Nigeria
Kilimall, the only major e-commerce competitor with Jumia in East Africa, is in Nigeria to extend its value delivery to the Nigerian population. While in Kenya, Kilimall rose to a prominent status in…
- 14 Sept 2017
Nigeria Still World’s Most Mobilized Country, Traffic Hits 81%- Twinpine
Nigeria has retained its position as world’s most mobilized country, a new report released by Twinpine has shown. The Twinpine’s 2017 “Nigeria Mobile Trends Report”, shows Nigeria gained 5% from the…
- 29 Dec 2017
WhatsApp will stop working on many smartphones from Jan 1
Many Smartphone owners will have to buy newer gadgets if they want to continue using WhatsApp chat as the app is about to stop working on a range of old smartphones. On New Year’s Day,…
- 12 Dec 2018
Smartphones: A Decade of Growth and Success
A decade ago, a smartphone was little more than a novelty item, a gadget, something that many people would've liked to have in their pockets but few of them actually needed. In the decade that has…
- 8 Dec 2008
Nokia Transforms Internet Experience with N97 Mobile Computer
Nokia has said it is building a world where we can always connect to our friends and loved ones, where we can know what they are doing, where they are and how they are feeling. A world where we can…
- 9 Dec 2019
WhatsApp to Stop Working on Millions of Phones by End of December
If you are using an older phone and you are wired on WhatsApp, you need a phone upgrade urgently. WhatsApp has announced it will stop working on millions of phones from 31 December, as they have…
- 14 Sept 2009
Etisalat Activates its Network with Mobile Instant Messaging Service
Mobile network operator, Etisalat has upgraded its network with Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) service powered by Colibria's Instant Messaging & Presence Service (IMPS). Etisalat's new MIM…
- 28 Sept 2009
Mobile Application Sales to Hit 165 Million by 2009
The number of smartphones sold each year is expected to hit 165.2 million by the end of 2009 and to reach 422.96 million in 2013, with the total number of smartphone users approaching 1.6 billion,…