TECNO MOBILE Ghana has partnered telecommunications giant MTN to launch its latest smartphone dubbed, ‘Camon CX’ onto the domestic market. Speaking at the launch held at the head office of MTN on Tuesday in Accra, Retail Manager at TECNO Mobile, Daniel Glover, said TECNO, through its Camon series, brings to the market devices that are … Read more
An Australian blogger who lied about having brain cancer and claimed to have cured herself with natural therapies has been ordered to pay Aus$30,000 (US$22,600) in legal costs. Belle Gibson, 25, launched a popular cookbook and smartphone app in 2013 on the back of assertions she had overcome the disease through alternative remedies such as … Read more
Airtel Ghana, the Smartphone Network, has presented cash prizes to two weekly winners in the groundbreaking Wo Mmer? Nie recharge promotion. The presentation was made during a market activation in Ashaiman, a suburb of Accra on Friday 31st March 2017. Wo Mmer? Nie, a consumer recharge promotion launched by Airtel Ghana to reward customers for … Read more
Embattled Samsung Electronics said Friday it expects profits to jump by half in the first quarter, despite a smartphone recall fiasco and the arrest of its de facto head. The forecast will come as welcome news to the South Korean giant after a torrid period in which it had to ditch its flagship Galaxy Note … Read more
A fruitful funding round has bumped Lyft’s value to $7.5 billion, as the ride-hailing company drives to gain ground on scandal-rocked rival Uber, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Lyft is closing a $500 million funding round in which it saw its valuation sharply spike from about $5.5 billion in previous rounds, according to the … Read more
Facebook on Thursday launched its digital assistant named “M” for US users of its Messenger application, ramping up the social network’s efforts in artificial intelligence. For users of the messaging platform, M will pop up and suggest “helpful actions” in the chat window. The move is seen as the first step in a broader launch … Read more
Twitter on Thursday unveiled a low-data usage version of the social network, which aims to bring in users in emerging markets and areas with slow or expensive mobile networks. The California group unveiled Twitter Lite, “making Twitter more accessible to millions of people,” said product manager Patrick Traughber. “Twitter Lite is a great way for … Read more
The Chinese smartphone-maker Huawei has won a patent victory over its South Korean rival Samsung. A Chinese court in Quanzhou has ordered the Galaxy S8-maker to pay 80m yuan ($11.6m; £9.3m) to Huawei for infringing the firm’s smartphone cellular technologies. The two are also suing each other over patents in other courts. Huawei’s victory was … Read more
A Chinese court has ordered Samsung Electronics’s (005930. KS) mainland subsidiaries to pay 80 million yuan ($11.60 million) to Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] for patent infringement, the China firm’s first victory against Samsung on its legal challenges over intellectual property. Three units of Samsung have been ordered by the Quanzhou Intermediary Court to pay the sum … Read more
Twitter Inc (TWTR. N) is launching a faster version of its mobile service on Wednesday aimed at people with sporadic connections or little data on their smartphone plans, hoping to pick up users in harder-to-reach emerging markets. The company calls the version Twitter Lite and it will be aimed largely at users outside the United … Read more
With his blue eyes, brown hair and beaming smile, young Michael Delefortrie looked every inch the angelic altar boy. But fast forward twenty years, and Michael had changed his name to Younnes, traded his Christian faith for Islam, and the sleepy Belgian suburb he’d grown up in for the front lines of ISIS’ war in … Read more
You can virtually do anything and everything with your smartphone. This has made some of us forget how to do certain things that were naturally part of you. And depending on you, these things may be good or bad. Whatever the case maybe, Jumia Travel , the leading online travel agency shares the things you … Read more
Samsung’s Bixby is the new kid on the block of personal digital assistants and is likely to face a rough reception in a neighborhood dominated by tech sector rivals. Bixby — introduced at Samsung’s unveiling of Galaxy S8 smartphones — aims to help the South Korean giant break into a surging market for voice-activated virtual … Read more
A sharp rise in US pedestrian deaths has been partly blamed on people using their smartphones while driving or crossing the road. The US Governors Highway Safety Association estimates that there were 6,000 pedestrian deaths in 2016, the highest number in more than 20 years. In the last six years, fatalities have grown at four … Read more
The tech entrepreneur who helped kick-start the virtual reality revolution is stepping down from the company which he helped to found. Palmer Luckey – who sold Oculus to Facebook for over $2 billion (£1.6 billion) in March 2014 – is leaving the social network after a series of highly publicised gaffes. Facebook confirmed yesterday that the … Read more
Facebook on Thursday confirmed that trouble-tainted Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey has left the leading social network, which dived into virtual reality after buying the startup three years ago. “Palmer will be dearly missed,” Facebook said in an email reply to an AFP inquiry. “His inventive spirit helped kickstart the modern VR revolution and build an … Read more
President Donald Trump has a new phone. An iPhone. That would not ordinarily be news, but given the security concerns about the risk of hack attacks on the prolific White House tweeter, the shift is significant. Cybersecurity specialists say Trump’s decision to transition from his Android device — details of which were never disclosed but … Read more
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its new Galaxy S8 smartphones, incorporating the virtual assistant Bixby, as the market leader seeks to rebound from a chaotic handset recall and a corruption scandal. The South Korean giant’s mobile chief DJ Koh told a New York event the Galaxy S8 and S8+ handsets marked “a new era of smartphone … Read more
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its new Galaxy S8 smartphones, incorporating its virtual assistant Bixby, as the market leader seeks to rebound from a chaotic handset recall and a corruption scandal. The South Korean giant’s mobile chief DJ Koh told a New York event the Galaxy S8 and S8+ handsets marked “a new era of smartphone … Read more
Premium mobile phone brand, TECNO Mobile has introduced its latest Camon CX unto the Ghanaian market after it was first launched in Kenya last week. The smartphone which has 16 megapixels for its back and front cameras has been designed specifically for young and independent smartphone users. Speaking at the launch in Ghana on Tuesday, … Read more