Ten-man Real Madrid rescued a 3-3 draw at home to Las Palmas on Wednesday thanks to a late double from Cristiano Ronaldo. Goals from Tana, Jonathan Viera and Kevin-Prince Boateng overturned an early opener from Isco and looked set to give the visitors a shock three points, especially after Gareth Bale’s red card early in … Read more
Pep Guardiola says Barcelona will miss Luis Enrique after the coach announced he will not manage the club next season. The 46-year-old confirmed that he will be stepping down at the end of the season following Barcelona’s 6-1 win over Sporting Gijon on Wednesday that saw the Catalans return to the top of the Liga … Read more
Netflix has announced new software that it hopes could save you cash while improving your viewing experience. The firm has been working on an improved method of delivering its content, which it hopes will be released in the next few months. The Dynamic Optimiser compression system will improve overall video quality while also reducing the … Read more
With Britan set to host this year’s Champions League final, Barcelona’s stars Lionel Messi and Neymar could be stopped from playing in the final, according to reports from the New York Times. The Champions League final has always been Europe’s hottest football match at the end of the season and this year it may not … Read more
Ghana’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Hon Isaac Asiamah has described FC Barcelona’s exploratory business visit to his country as “a great development”. A five man delegation from the Spanish football giants concluded a successful three day trip looking at future partnerships and investments in the West African state. Minister Asiamah welcomed the Barcelona delegation … Read more
Ghana’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Hon Isaac Asiamah has described FC Barcelona’s exploratory business visit to his country as “a great development”. A five man delegation from the Spanish football giants concluded a successful three day trip looking at future partnerships and investments in the West African state. Minister Asiamah welcomed the Barcelona delegation … Read more
HMD Gobal seems to have succeeded in pulling off the coolest conservative approach ever, as the new Nokia 3310 has lost none of the charm and identity of the old model World’s most reliable phone ever; Nokia 3310 has finally been launched. The long anticipated grand phone of all phones was unveiled at the Mobile … Read more
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, said Tuesday that telecoms operator Asiacell will offer free access to the website to its nearly 12 million mobile phone customers in war-torn Iraq. The partnership is the first by a telecoms operator in Iraq and the foundation’s Wikipedia Zero project, which waives mobile data fees to … Read more
Access to Wikipedia will not incur mobile data charges to customers of the Asiacell mobile phone provider in Iraq, the organisation has announced. It is part of the Wikipedia Zero scheme that has operated in 59 countries around the world since 2012. The Wikimedia Foundation says it wants to “bring the sum of human knowledge” … Read more
Mercedes and Ferrari had impressive starts to pre-season testing as Red Bull and McLaren hit trouble. Lewis Hamilton was fastest as Mercedes completed 152 laps with both their drivers at Circuit de Catalunya. Hamilton was 0.113 seconds faster than Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari, which also ran reliably and used the slower medium tyre with the Mercedes … Read more
It was shortly after 6:00 am in Turkey, and Khaled Khatib and his cousin Fadi had dozed off while staying up all night to watch the Oscars. But then they got a phone call from Hollywood from their colleagues in the White Helmets, the Syrian rescue workers who were the subject of a documentary in … Read more
Netflix is “thrilled” that the documentary “The White Helmets” which it distributes about rescue workers in war-torn Syria picked up an Oscar, the head of the US video streaming service said Monday. “One of the great things about entertainment is just being able to connect people to stories,” Reed Hastings said at the Mobile World … Read more
One of the world’s biggest and successful football clubs, Barcelona is launching a football academy in Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos. The Football Academy in one of Africa’s largest city is the first of its kind in the continent, the academy is modeled on Barcelona’s flagship la Masia Academy in Spain. La Msia Academy in recent … Read more
The Nokia 3310, once the world’s most beloved phone, will be resurrected as a low-cost alternative in the smartphone-era. It will be sold by Finnish start-up HMD Global, which acquired the Nokia brand name in 2016. It’s almost like the smartphone revolution never happened. Finnish brand Nokia, once the darling of the mobile phone world, … Read more
One of the world’s biggest and most successful clubs, Barcelona, is launching a football academy in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub. The academy, in Africa’s biggest city, is the first of its kind on the continent. It is modelled on Barcelona’s flagship La Masia Academy in Spain which has produced stars such as Andres Iniesta, Lionel … Read more
LG has ditched the modular design of its previous flagship smartphone and unveiled a new top-end model that is designed for split-screen uses. To achieve this, the G6’s display has an 18:9 aspect ratio, rather than the 16:9 used by most handsets. It means that when viewed in landscape mode, the screen appears wider than … Read more
Nokia’s 3310 phone has been relaunched nearly 17 years after its debut. Many consider the original handset iconic because of its popularity and sturdiness. More than 126 million were produced before it was phased out in 2005. The revamped version will be sold under licence by the Finnish start-up HMD Global, which also unveiled several … Read more
Nokia’s 3310 phone has been relaunched nearly 17 years after its debut. Many consider the original handset iconic because of its popularity and sturdiness. More than 126 million were produced before it was phased out in 2005. The revamped version will be sold under licence by the Finnish start-up HMD Global, which also unveiled several … Read more
A five-man delegation from Spanish football giants FC Barcelona is in Accra to explore potential sports- business and soccer partnerships. The feasibility and fact finding team is led by a senior member of the powerful Barcelona board Paul Vilanova Villa Abadal and the director of the renowned FC Barcelona Escola programme Franc Carbo. Upon their … Read more
The official global introduction of 5G is set for 2020, but a number of global mobile industry giants today declared their support for the acceleration of 5G New Radio (5G NR) standardization to enable large scale trials and the deployment of the technology in 2019. This comes just a day before the opening of Mobile … Read more