Microsoft and Facebook have announced that they will be building an undersea cable from the east coast of the US to Spain to help speed up their global internet services. The cable, designed to have a bandwidth of as much as 160 terabytes per second, will be operated by Telxius, a unit of Telefonica…
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Rowland Osahon
Straight talk. I tell it like it is. Obvious but elusive. I do love technology and marvel comics/films. No you can't see me. I am like "The Stig" in Top Gear or like Lagbaja. Now you see me, now you don't
This is an interesting video posted by Amanda Cerny on Facebook. Even though some people may think this is extreme, it is close to the truth for some people. For all it is worth, be careful.
I hear Uber is testing self-driving cars. Now I don’t want to panic but what does this mean? Does it mean when I request for an Uber car, I will get one that arrives at my doorstep without any driver? And I am supposed to enter the car, sit at…
Paramount Pictures just announced the title of Transformers 5. It is Transformers: The Last Knight. And it is scheduled for release June 23, 2017. It will star Mark Wahlberg again but with a new female lead character to be played by Isabela Moner. Comedian Jerrod Carmichael has also been cast. Calling all #Autobots: Optimus Prime is…
Nigerian Afrobeat artiste Timaya has just dropped the official music video for “Money”, featuring fellow Nigerian artiste Flavour. If you like afrobeat, you will enjoy it. Of course, Clarence shot it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2FDUQ99BU
Traditionally South Africa-based Naspers, a $65B global internet and entertainment group with operations in more than 130 countries, had shied away from developed markets. Its investments had always been in emerging economies. However its entrance into the US market has been forthcoming. Naspers CEO, Chief Executive Officer Bob van Dijk had…
There has been a coup in the Classifieds industry in Zimbabwe. Econet’s Classifieds property, OWNAI, has surpassed the 100 000 listings mark overtaking the incumbent, Classifieds.co.zw to be the largest online Classifieds site in Zimbabawe. Re-launched in November 2015, OWNAI is the rebranded Tengai. Tengai was last year when it launched.…
Wow!! The angel investors got 3000% ROI for investing in Jason Njoku’s iROKO. If it were up to you as a Nigerian, would you have invested in Jason Njoku and his dreams of revolutionising the Nigerian film industry back then? Would you have seen through the piracy-laden minefield? Would you have…
The Mall of Africa opened its doors to the public yesterday and there were human and vehicular queues to the super regional super mall located in Midrand, South Africa. Some Twitter users poked fun at this asking if South Africans had not been to a mall before. Here are some…
At Auto China auto show this week in Beijing, Audi unveiled its Connected Mobility Concept, a trucklet based on the production Q3, the brand’s urban compact SUV The car comes complete with an electrically powered multifunctional longboard integrated into the rear bumper of the car for convenient storage and removal. The 1.05 m…
GIST Startup Boot Camp South Africa has announced EcoAct Tanzania as the winner of the Boot Camp held from April 12 – April 15 in Johannesburg. The Boot Camp team was held to teach 32 young African teams how to effectively get out of the building and interview potential customers in…
Google is celebrating the 50th release of the Chrome browser. It also shared some statistics which are noteworthy. Google launched the Chrome browser in 2008 and it has steadily become widely used browser in the world. It currently boasts of 1 billion mobile users every month and 771 billion pages…
The BMW M4 GTS gives BMW M GmbH a new and exclusive technological showpiece which elevates the potential of the BMW M4 Coupe to another impressive new level. BMW M GmbH is launching the BMW M4 GTS in a special edition limited to 700 units to celebrate the 30th anniversary…
Tecno mobile recently launched the Boom J8 in the Country. It’s a successor to the best music phone from Tecno mobile last year; Boom J7. When you look at the Boom J8, you will agree with me that the Boom J8 is a complete upgrade in almost all departments compared…
Snapchat is an app targeted towards the young generation between the ages of 13 – 23 so you can be excused if you are not on Snapchat. But you cannot sniffle at the statistics – 9,000 snaps per second, 8 billion video views a day, more than 100 million daily active…
Apple today introduced the all-new 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Weighing under just one pound and 6.1mm thin, it features a new pro Retina® display with greater brightness, wider color gamut, lower reflectivity, Night Shift™ mode and introduces new True Tone® display technology to dynamically adjust white balance. The new iPad Pro…
Acting CEO Shola Adekoya who took over after Founder Sim Shagaya was appointed as the Chairman of Konga.com, has been confirmed as the CEO of the eCommerce company. According to Techcabal, this was announced via a release from the company listed below. Shola has already updated his LinkedIn profile to…
Smile Communications Uganda (“Smile Uganda”) has announced the introduction of two 4G LTE innovations to its customers in Uganda – SmileVoice and SmileUnlimited. This makes Smile, the first operator to offer its customers Voice over LTE services in East Africa. This gives Ugandans access to the fast growing Global standard for…
2016 is the year Africa builds products that the world finally takes notice of, and the Pocket Presents team have come up with TechInSV to help us learn how. In Nigeria today, over 200 blogs are opened daily, dream start-ups in technology, fashion, food, blogging, makeup, etc are opened and…
Have you seen Airtel’s new visual ad? It seems overtly yellow and your first opinion would be “Why would Airtel do an ad that is conspicuously yellow?” Then you see the red hat and the luggages are the ones that are indeed yellow. Then you realise the mischievousness. Airtel is…