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WhatsApp introduces new tools to combat account theft, scams

WhatsApp introduces new tools to combat account theft, scams

By Islamiyyah Adekanbi WhatsApp has introduced new security features aimed at helping users prevent unauthorised access to their accounts, strengthen account recovery and make safer decisions when dealing with unknown callers. The messaging platform said the latest upgrades were designed to give users greater control over their account security as scams and attempts to gain […]
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Phase 3 boss roots for aerial optic fibre

Phase 3 boss roots for aerial optic fibre

As a way of side stepping the environmental and man-made challenges in deploying last mile technologies, Chief Executive Officer of Phase3 Telecom, Mr. Stanley Jegede has advocated that the use of aerial optic fibre network may just provide another reliable means of carrying communications traffic.

Beware! Your phone can poison you

Beware! Your phone can poison you

Yes, as strange as it sounds, it is also the truth. One may probably not believe it but it has been discovered that cell phones can be harmful to a very great extent than the usual suspicion of emitting Electro Magnetic Radiation, EMR.

NiRA elects new officers tomorrow, holds AGM

NiRA elects new officers tomorrow, holds AGM

The Nigeria Internet Registration Association, NIRA, has said that all preparations were concluded towards its annual General Meeting and elections tomorrow in Ikeja, Lagos .

Nokia unveils double SIM phone in Nigeria

Nokia unveils double SIM phone in Nigeria

Apparently yearning to the aspirations of its teeming customers in the West African market, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of mobile devices Nokia has unveiled a two-SIM phone in the market.

Intel set to acquire McAfee

Intel set to acquire McAfee

Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire one of the world’s largest dedicated security technology companies, McAfee, Inc., through the purchase of all of the company’s common stock at $48 per share in cash, for approximately $7.68 billion.

Direct mailing council receive ministerial backing

Direct mailing council receive ministerial backing

Newly formed Direct Mailing Practitioners Association of Nigeria , DMPAN, last week visited the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, where it received a promise that the ministry was going to support every of its worthy causes.

At Ramadan, slashes night time calling rates

At Ramadan, slashes night time calling rates

Starcomms Plc is offering its customers a N4 per minute on-net calls between the period of 10 pm and 7 am. The offer is to enable Starcomms customers, particularly the Muslims to share warm thoughts during the Ramadan period, while also giving opportunity to non-Muslims to extend warm greetings to their Muslim and other friends.

Nigerian lawmakers need IT training , expert

Nigerian lawmakers need IT training , expert

The need for the Nigerian lawmakers, the financial crimes investigators, the lawyers and regulatory agencies, the media, among other stakeholders to be Information Technology, IT compliant has been stressed

Where’s Govt’s local content policy in INEC’s e-registration campaign?

Where’s Govt’s local content policy in INEC’s e-registration campaign?

As Prof Attahiru Jega racks his brain to pick a company out of the seven that scaled the first huddle of the INEC contract scramble, Managing Director of NigComSat, Engr Ahmed Rufai may have Advised that there was no reason for anybody to develop migraine over the smooth delivery of the DCC machines only if the local content policy of the federal government would be applied here.