How better to tell who is knocking on your door than to look through the peephole? In the same vein, there is no safer way to tell who is trying to unlock your phone than with facial recognition technology

Owoeye, is giving the smart watch technology a new dimension for Nigerian phone users, with a new brand of wearable phone called stoms.

When robbers visited Mr. Tunde Makhinde’s house in Lagos last week and took his iPad with them, they did not know that they had shot themselves in the foot. The tech whiz had activated the tracking device on his iPad, and within a matter of days, had gone with law enforcement agents to catch the thieves red handed.

The average Nigerian in a uniform thinks he is above the law. He drives against traffic at great speed, and is careless in a convoy. When asked to pay his bus fare, he can beat up the conductor for not acknowledging him as a ‘staff.’ His car chases erring ‘danfo’ buses by hitting them continuously with his vehicle and throwing passengers into panic. And since the ‘okada’ ban in Lagos, there’s no telling how many he has confiscated.

Scammers are becoming much more creative. And you had better keep up. New on the block is the Western Union promotion lottery scam. Take a look at a prototype of the email these scammers use

The average person loves himself. The average person uses social media. So it suffices to say that lots of social media apps feed on the vanity on the average person. Well, that might be too extreme, but do the ‘selfie-centred’ apps flooding the app market now give cause for concern?

No matter how sonorous the tone of a particular music may be, it never gives comfort from a bad speaker. The speaker is however not bad based on the look or age but by the technology behind its making.

Despite losing a market unit share in the third quarter of 2013, Apple still shipped more products and remained the top company in the tablet business in the Quarter.

Despite insisting it was going ahead, to sell its mobile device unit to Microsoft, the swag with which Stephen Elop, Nokia’s Executive Vice president, devices and services, Tuesday, mounted the stage at St Regis Hotel Abu Dhabi, venue of this year’s Nokia world event,to introduce six new devices, almost betrayed an impression that the device maker may change its mind.

There is hardly any fear that millions of kids, thirteen and above who use facebook will stumble across pornographic content. However, recent developments show that users of the world’s number one social media network will not be protected from videos portraying beheadings, executions and other forms of violence.

Compassion-that’s a word scammers thrive on. The thought of an unknown stranger dying in a hospital is enough to thaw the iciest of hearts. But when the bait is an orphan being left behind with a huge inheritance, there must be something unbelievable about the story or you are greedy enough not to notice.

Just when we thought we were stuck in the future with mp3s and CDs, the age old vinyl record is making an unprecedented comeback. Reports say that vinyl record sales up in the United Kingdom have gone up 78% in 2013 alone. According to 2012 sales figures, vinyl record album sales in the United States jumped 17.7 percent to almost 4.55 million units.

Those who think the fight for mobile market dominance is settled may have another think coming! If anything, there are device makers who are not taking the fight, friendly. And at the last check, Sony Mobile seems to lead that pack.

With the iPad 5 set to be unveiled on October 22, Apple lovers all over the world can’t help but wonder what it will look like. Different speculations and leaks, however, hint at a Touch ID fingerprint scanner just like the iPhone 5S, as well as similarities in design with the iPad mini.

It’s very likely that you love your smart phone or tablet. It’s also very likely that somebody else does too. More often than not, a compliment, and a few ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ would suffice. Unfortunately, some people take it to the next level and would attempt to steal it. Here are four ways you can help them do just that: