Two months after it launched its live streaming app Periscope for iOS devices, Twitter has finally released the Android version of the app. The Android version is quite similar to Periscope on iOS, but makes use of Google’s material design and Android’s in-depth flexible notification feature. It also carries over several touches…
Author: Stephen Amaza
Stephen Amaza
Stephen Amaza is the founder of Codaye Technologies, a web and app development enterprise. He enjoys the world of technology and writes about the happenings-on in that field in his spare time.
Google announced the most popular Nigerian videos on YouTube of all time. The video that takes the spot is First Lady, Patience Jonathan’s ‘Diaris God’ cry which was uploaded by Channels TV. The video, published in 2014 showed Mrs. Jonathan breaking down at a meeting over the abduction of about 276…
Two months after Instagram released a new app, Layouts for iOS, it has released the Android version of the app. The app arrays your photos in a variety of grids, to capitalize on a recent study by Instagram that showed that one in five Instagram users regularly post collages to their accounts. Unlike…
Twitter has upgraded its search interface, making it less cluttered and more accurate. The new Twitter search design which had been in testing since last month gives more emphasis to images and has enhanced filtering options. It also highlights important tweets, images and accounts related to search queries. One can switch between ‘Top’ tweets meaning…
The Guinness World Records have declared President Obama the holder of the World Record For Fastest Million Follower Count. Barack Obama opened up a personal Twitter account @POTUS two days ago and in 4.5 hours, his followership grew to a million followers. And this record is not a thing the people…
A brief chat with Lanre ‘eLDee’ Dabiri tells a lot about PlayData, the service that could change the Nigerian music industry
Thanks to Guaranty Trust Bank, you no longer need internet connection to carry out mobile banking anymore. This comes as a result of the bank’s recently launched feature for its customers to transfer money using mobile shortcodes. GTBank customers can perform third party transfers to both GTBank and other bank…
One Number, a value added service provider in mobile telecommunications, recently released a sticker themed around the Hausa language and culture called Arewan Mu. Arewan mu is a Hausa phrase meaning ‘our arewa’, while arewa means the general Hausa-speaking far North. One Number started came to our attention when they first…
TechCrunch, a leading technology media property, dedicated to startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news is coming to Lagos in July. TechCrunch is coming to Lagos to organize one of its Meetup + Pitch-Off event with the aim of finding Nigerian startups for its Disrupt Conference in San Francisco. In its…
For one of the biggest social networks currently with over 300 million users and still going strong, Instagram has the most limited sharing features. Ironically, sharing is what social is all about. For instance, Facebook has the ‘Share’ button, twitter has the ‘Retweet’ button, Google+ has its own ‘Share’ button, Pinterest has…
As if the world needed more reason why Idris Elba should be the next James Bond, the 42 year old went ahead to break an 88 year old record. The record in question is the ‘Flying Mile’ – the fastest speed one can reach over the course of a measured…
Over time, gossip and entertainment blogs have been using people’s tweets to create articles, usually in a way that is undesirable to the author of those tweets. This has led to debates online as to if it is allowed for tweets to be used without an author’s express approval. Here,…
Once again the strength of social media came to play as PDP Chairman, Adamu Muazu chose the platform to air his frustration with the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose.
Social media has been making fun of some few celebrities and Rihanna has been the main butt of the joke as she stepped out in a yellow, gown.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton given their new born baby girl the name, Charlotte Elizabeth Diane.
In honour of the yet unnamed princess, the day-old daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate Middleton, London went pink.
Google UK changed its homepage to welcome the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate Middleton. Known for its creative doodles, this time around Google did not go as far as a doodle, but instead placed a congratulatory message in plain text at the bottom of…
After weeks of planning and training prospective coders and hackers in Ruby on Rails and PHP, the #HackJos hackathon finally held on the 23rd and 24th of March in the city of Jos. The competition had 30 coders in 9 teams from Jos, Abuja and Bauchi in attendance as they…
Earlier today, Instagram unveiled a new app christened Layouts, a standalone app, for photo collages. Layout has 10 different collage layouts depending on the number of photos used and allows users to include as many as nine pictures in one collage. The resulting photo collage can then be easily shared to Instagram and Facebook.…
Twitter has upgraded its native video sharing to now be directly embeddable. Before now, users intending to share video tweets outside Twitter had to embed the whole tweet