Google I/O 2016 keynote: Summary

If you are an avid tech follower or just someone who stays on the internet a lot, chances are you heard of Google I/O. Well, more or less, it's Google's biggest event of the year; and where a lot of products and services are announced. This year's edition was no different either. We saw new products and old-updated ones. I made a rough list of the major announcements. Here they are: Google Home:   With tech diversifying, thanks to...

Read More

Instabridge: The network of WiFi Passwords

Internet connectivity is still a challenge in the world as a whole. Subscribing for data plans and stuff at times can be uhm, not so favorable to your pockets. So many people opted to hooking up to WiFi hotspots around them, which gave rise to another problem: most of them are password protected. Hackers have been doing some research on bypassing these security measures and have succeeded to an extent but the main solution making waves right...

Read More

Injoo launches new phones before Jumia Mobile Megathon

Injoo, one of the partners of the mobile megathon week has decided to do a prelaunch before the d-day(or d-week if you like). They sent a mail to everyone present at the tech bloggers round table on the 14th of this month. So I was lucky to get an invite to the launch(thanks to Seun of JustNaira.com) so I will be keeping you posted on the phones released (which from all indications, is in preparation for the mobile meagthon). It is scheduled...

Read More

Jumia and MTN Nigeria partner to host Mobile megathon 2015

Remember black Friday last year? The insane price slashes? Well Jumia has decided to expand it to last 1 week and they collaborated with MTN to host this year's version. The Mobile Megathon is going to be the biggest smartphone sale of the year 2015 is they do what they promised at the tech bloggers round table on the 14th of May. Mr Jonathan Doerr, the MD of Jumia Nigeria re-affirmed this at the West African Bloggers Conference 2015 on day 2....

Read More

It's official, Google I/O's date and time released

Google's biggest event of the year the I/O holds annually and this year is no different. This year's episode (the key note actually) holds on the 28th of May, 2015 at 12:30PM (ET); that's 9:30AM PT and is scheduled to last for 2.5 hours which is just a tad shorter that the recent Microsoft's three hour Keynote. I'll try to keep you updated with a blog post and I'll try to get some info on how to stream the event for those who want to. Stay tuned!...

Read More

Etisalat Launches a 1k for 1GB data plan

We all know that the prices for data bundles pegged by our ISPs are a little exorbitant but for the past few months, more affordable data bundles are being brought into play: amongst them are the MTN reseller bundle which lets you buy 1GB of data for as low as 1,200NGN. Now, Etisalat has introduced a 1GB data bundle for 1K (which in my opinion is a compensation for the discontinuation of the PAYG plan). Below is a screenshot of the text message...

Read More

Have the 2 top tech giants come to a truce?

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; direction: ltr; line-height: 120%; text-align: left; widows: 2; orphans: 2; } We’ve witnessed the tense hostility between the leading mobile tech companies (Apple and Google). Apple doesn’t like other tech companies “copying” them in whatever way; else, they’ll have to sort it out in court. Now rumors have it that Google’s mobile division (Android) is working on a way to make their smart watches work on iOS...

Read More