Author: Chidi

According to a report from the Massachusetts-based consulting and market research firm Strategy Analytics, Huawei is now the most profitable among Android brands. The company has managed to push Samsung behind in terms of Q3 profits by earning an operating profit of $0.2 billion from its global operations in Q3. This represents…

According to a new research from Stanford University, some students from university’s Bio-X institute came up with an idea for their project called “Shazam for Mosquitoes”. The tool is named after the popular phone app that identifies music. The project showed that cellphones can tell which mosquito is around you by recording…

Nokia could unveil new Android smartphones next year during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Well, this is actually according to a recent leak, which shows that one of the smartphone could be a flagship model with some amazing hardware specifications. The upcoming flagships is said to come with…

Microsoft has made its popular Windows Computer Solitaire game available on mobile. The Microsoft Solitaire Collection mobile app is available for both iOS and Android for free. The Solitaire has been one of the classic Windows pre-installed games on Microsoft’s operating system and it’s been around for years. Microsoft’s new Solitaire…

A new iOS bug has surfaced that will cause any iOS device to freeze after clicking a malicious video link and viewing a certain .mp4 video with the Safari browser. At first, playing the 3-second MP4 video in Safari, your device won’t seem to be affected in any way but…

Remember back in February when WhatsApp announced it will end support for its Messaging app on BBOS, Blackberry 10 and several mobile platforms by the end of 2016? Well, it seems WhatsApp has decided to extend support for the following platforms until June 30, 2017. The new update for the app…

Despite reports of the Canadian phone company moving away from the hardware business, the company’s upcoming Blackberry DTEK70 just got leaked. Well, it doesn’t look like the smartphone maker is giving up anytime soon, and the device is really gaining grounds. Recently, the company announced it would soon switch to a business model…

Warner Bros. just released the new trailer for Wonder Woman and it is really intense. The DCEU continues to push forward with big titles and this next film is taking the entire Extended Universe back in time to show us the origins of Diana Prince a.k.a Wonder Woman. The new footage shows Diana’s…

Popular read-it-later app, Instapaper, has decided to end its $29.99/year Premium subscription service, making all those paid features available to all users. The app itself always been free, but it comes with a Premium subscription with added features which includes: An ad-free Instapaper website Full-text search for all articles Unlimited Notes Text-to-speech playlists Unlimited…

Mobile Internet usage exceeds desktop Internet usage worldwide for the first time in October, according to StatCounter. According to its research, StatCounter Global Stats finds that mobile and tablet devices accounted for 51.3% of internet usage worldwide in October compared to 48.7% by desktop. In July the company released a…

Google publicly announced a Windows 10 bug that hackers are exploiting right now and Microsoft is not very happy with Google for doing that. Microsoft does not have a patch for this Windows 10 bug just yet. Windows 10 Anniversary Update is not affected by the vulnerability. Tech companies tend to have this understood…

Apple’s chief design officer, Jony Ive revealed that Apple decided against adding touchscreens to the Mac years ago, according to an interview with CNET. The statement comes as most Windows-based OEMs have added touchscreen capabilities to their laptops. When Apple started playing around with the idea of putting touchscreens on a Mac, it…

A computer company in Ukraine promised a free Apple iPhone 7 to the first five people who legally changed their name to iPhone 7. A dedicated 20-year-old man took up the store on their promotion to hand out the latest Apple device by giving up his birth name to ‘iPhone 7’…

Google’s latest smartphone is the hottest device right now that’s because it’s an amazing device but this is a Google Pixel XL vs iPhone 7 Plus war. So let’s not push Apple’s latest smartphone to the corner so quickly. Well, Google’s new smartphone has plenty going for it right now. Like…

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is confirmed, well, indirectly. Now previously we heard Samsung will release just one flagship in 2017. Which will include both the Galaxy S8 and the Note 8 with a totally different name. Meaning Note lineup will be discontinued but it seems like Samsung will still…

Apple’s accidentally leaked its rumoured Macbook touchbar and we’re just a few days away from Apple’s announcement. The rumoured OLED Macbook touchbar is now believe to be called the Magic toolbar based on trademark filings. Images hidden inside the latest operating system “MacOS Sierra 10.12.1”, showcased this dynamic magic toolbar in…

WhatsApp video calling has been in the works for quite some time now and this time, it’s available for Android devices. The feature was first spotted by Android Police. Although the feature is only available on the latest Android beta build version 2.16.318. Previous reports only got leaked images of this…

Nintendo just revealed its wii U successor which Nintendo calls the Nintendo Switch. It is a hybrid mobile and home console which is more like a tablet. It has detachable controllers which Nintendo calls the ‘Joy Con’. The internet got to know about this hybrid console about a year ago…

The first trailer for Logan has arrived and it feels… different. Wolverine is back and is more violent than. We get to see him and Professor Xavier living together in the desert far away from civilization. They’re older and weaker, with his abilities not what they once were; Wolverine has…

The highly anticipated Apple event of the year just got legitimized by the Cupertino company. Apple sent out invites for its second event via press invites and a new page on their site. The event is taking place at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California on October 27. Which is said to…