Author: Chidi

Blackberry launched a new application beta for BBM Video. The beta app is currently available to Android users in the US and Canada. The beta app will later make its way iOS in the near future. Soon BBM will allow users to video call each other via BlackBerry Messenger services,…

Google believes it can cure short-sightedness by removing the inferior biological lenses from your eyes and replacing them with motorized ones controlled by tiny computers. A patent published yesterday takes eye-based electronics to a whole new level. The planned device […] contains a number of tiny components: storage, sensors, radio,…

Facebook doesn’t like the fact that most users don’t dwell in the social network; they just passively visit on a daily basis. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company may be looking to change this “bad” habit by developing a standalone camera app that would encourage creating and sharing photos and videos all…

Over the past several months Instagram received a handful of updates, some of which have been welcomed with open arms while others have caused frustration among users. In any case, it appears that the company is testing yet another feature for Instagram, which comes in the form of a redesigned…

If the rumours are true, you won’t need an iPhone for the next Apple Watch to work. After a year dominating the smartwatch group, the brilliant team of engineers and designers at Apple are reportedly doing what they do best: figuring out how to make good products even better. The…

The final trailer of X-Men: Apocalypse movie is out and boy, it’s filled with loads of action scenes and explosions. The villain of this movie is Apocalypse, as we all know(Oscar Isaac), who seems to be some kind of god, with his four horsemen, which is Storm, Magneto, Archangel and…

Microsoft has released its word predictive keyboard to iPhone, the app is now available in the US App Store and there’s no word on when it’ll be available to the rest of the world as of now. The app was offered as a beta to a few iOS users earlier…

Beyonce released her long-anticipated sixth album ‘Lemonade’ Saturday night. The Beyhive have been waiting on this album since February 6, when she dropped her single “Formation” which was initially on Tidal and later got dropped on YouTube. Lemonade follows the singer’s self-titled, surprise-released 2013 LP but she did things quite different…

Pope Francis told thousands of teenagers that happiness is not an app you can download on your mobile phone, on Sunday (April 24) at a mass to mark a weekend dedicated to youth.  He used the reference to connect to teens aged 13-16 who are converging on Rome for a Holy…

Apple just gave a hardware upgrade to last year’s 12-inch MacBook, remember the one that comes in Gold which was smaller, light, with a battery that didn’t last quite as long and has just a single USB port to do everything? Well, the MacBook now has a faster processor but…

Samsung Is Trying Really Hard Not to Call These Phones ‘Rose Gold’ Samsung just announced that its Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge now has a new, fifth colour versions – Pink Gold – which joins the four color variants that we’re already familiar with: black, white, platinum gold, and…

https://youtu.be/RlcE1334_ew Microsoft revealed it will bring its Windows Phone Word Flow keyboard to iOS back in January and a new sign up page was made available to beta testers so they’d be able to access the keyboard soon. Personally, the Windows Phone keyboard has always been my favourite keyboard so…

Inventor of Flyboard and founder of popular Zapata Racing which is based in France, ‘Franky Zapata’ is back at it again and this time it’s huge. Of course, you would have seen Flyboard’s interesting water-powered device, “that is if you’re not living under a rock”. The water-powered board brought Zapata…

SwiftKey is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, with a new limited edition keyboard, “ShakeSpeak”. SwiftKey’s is known for its accuracy in word predictions but this new keyboard is quite different from its regular predictive features. The ShakeSpeak keyboard predicts Shakespeare’s quote through the words users are typing.…

Reddit released its own official apps for both iOS and Android. The iPhone version will replace Reddit’s Alien Blue app which the site made its official mobile client. The app is currently available in the Australia, Canada, the Uk and the US, luckily, I have a US iTunes account, so…

Nintendo’s first official mobile app is here, although it’s less of a game and more of a social app, focusing on the familiar Mii avatars. Create a Mii, and send them off as a “social go-between” to friends with quizzes, mini-games and photo-editing built in. Although this app is aimed…

Microsoft is turning its chat app, Skype, into a full-blown messaging platform. To transform Skype, the software giant has to make it smarter using bots, and their creators. At its Build developer conference yesterday (March 30), Microsoft introduced the Skype Bot Program. Some examples of what these Skype bots will…

Nigeria’s online travel booking portal, “Wakanow” has made a major change to its new identity and has unveiled plans to partner Zenith Bank as its banker of choice in the brands’ roll out across Africa, UK and the UAE. The new brand identity was unveiled by Sola Ladipo, Executive Director…

Apple’s iPhone SE is yet to be released to the public and while a lot of folks out there might not be interested in Apple’s new device due to its smaller screen size, the case seems to be different in China. Retailers in China are reporting that over 3.4 million…

Sony announced today that it will form a new company called “Forward Works” which will focus on smartphone games. Frame Works will bring PlayStation titles to Android and iOS devices. Though it looks like this decision made right after Nintendo’s success with their first smartphone game launch. There’s no telling…