Author: Jesse Oguntimehin

Brian Acton and Jan Koum I have been using WhatsApp for a few years now—up to three years. But WhatsApp is already 6 years old. When I started using it then, I tried to check out their background and story on the web, but I found next to nothing. I…

“Just to show you how much we love you, on Valentines day all taxi rides on Tranzit Nigeria will be free. We appreciate your support for the first online taxi booking service in Nigeria.” I received an email with the opening in this article from Tranzitng. I checked their Twitter feeds…

Pando is reporting that the British Government is about to mandate a programming curriculum in all primary and secondary schools in UK by September this year. They had initially scrapped the traditional Information and Communication Technologies curriculum almost two years ago. The plan is that the government is going to…

Co-creation Hub Nigeria; known as the hub where entrepreneurs, marketers and coders converge; has launched formally its Mobile Experience Lab in Lagos on Tuesday, 22 January, 2014. It is a space that gives mobile device users an opportunity to experience latest gadgets first hand. According to a press item sent…

SourceConsumer device analyst Avi Greengart, from research firm Current Analysis, suggested that 2013 may be the “year of the smartwatch”, as “the components have gotten small enough and cheap enough” and many consumers own smartphones that are compatible with a wearable device. I am thinking it is 2014, though wearable…

I first heard about Xiaomi in 2012 while reading about how it is developing into a culture among its many loyal users, just the same way Apple’s iPhone has so many loyal followers (fanboys) who stick around in long queues for a launch and eagerly attending product launches.It was an…

It’s been rather quiet from the stables of Tecno Mobile. With all the noise of new devices from Apple, Samsung and the others, one would have expected the introduction of a new device since. Well I guess we would not have to wait for too long. The company released a…

Mobile Number Portability was long awaited and finally introduced to the Nigerian consumers in April 2003. It was a welcome move and many were excited at it. We were finally going to get our pound of flesh from the telecom companies that have served us poorly and held us to…

WhatsApp has launched audio messaging that is similar to the one available on Line messaging app and BlackBerry Messenger.WhatsApp, the Californian based startup, has been very simplistic with its approach. They take pride in their engaged users that are over 300million that use the app at least once in a…