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    A Light Power by Gravity

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Ever heard of a lamp that is powered with gravity and requires no batteries, electricity or sunlight? The world seems to have come of age for one. Electricity is a provision that is so readily available to us that we tend to forget […] More

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    The First Hearable Control Device

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Imagine what it would be like if, with the help of technology, you could make your already good hearing better. What if you could filter out certain noises and amplify other ones to customise what you can hear? Well, if New York-based startup […] More

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    Robotel Partners Topteck Nigeria

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Robotel Incorporated, a Canadian-based teaching solution developer, has achieved a laudable feat towards bridging the gap between Nigerian schools and digital classroom management systems, as it partners Topteck Nigeria, another solution provider. The partnership offers hundreds of Nigerian educational institutions a world-class digital […] More

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    Microsoft Embraces ‘Middle Finger’ Emoji

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Microsoft has dared to go where Apple and Google have so far feared to tread, becoming the first big consumer OS vendor to add the “middle finger” emoji to its software platform. Flipping the bird in emoji form has been around since the […] More

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    Facebook Hits Back in Internet.org India Row

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Facebook boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has defended the aims of his Internet.org initiative on Thursday, after several Indian firms decided to pull out of the project. Zuckerberg argued that Internet.org’s basic free services were not incompatible with net neutrality and the principle that all […] More

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    Facebook Sued for EU Privacy Laws Violation

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Facebook is being sued by some 25,000 users for alleged violations of European privacy laws in a class action suit in a Vienna court. The claim, led by Max Schrems, Austrian data protection campaigner focuses on the way Facebook collects and forwards data. […] More

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    Google To Shutdown Buttercoin

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Google Ventures and Y Combinator backed bitcoin exchange startup Buttercoin, is shutting down this month, after failing to raise new investment. According to a note on buttercoin website, the company states that it will be turning off its service on Friday, April 10, […] More

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    Google Launches Twitter Takeover Bid

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow There are reports that Google may launch a takeover bid for Twitter, the micro-blogging site whose share value is now put at $1bn. Google was identified as one of the two companies, believed to have contacted Twitter with “serious” interest. The micro-blogging site […] More

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    Why Internet Explorer Will Soon Be Phased Out

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The iconic Microsoft browser, Internet Explorer, is no longer favored by the company, who is now in favour of a new browser currently codenamed Project Spartan, Microsoft announced. Users had condemned the browser for being slow and unprotected and this prompted Microsoft to […] More

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    Solar Impulse Plane On Second Leg Trip

    Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The historic Solar Impulse Plane has crossed the Arabian Sea on the second leg of its epic attempt to fly around the world. After the briefest of layovers, the prop-driven plane took off from Muscat in Oman at 06.35 (02:35 GMT) on Tuesday. […] More

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