MTN Joins TECNO To Unveil Camon CX
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...
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Australia Fake Cancer Claim Blogger Ordered To Pay Costs
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,...
Airtel Ghana Presents Cash Prizes To Winners of Wo Mmere Nie Recharge
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...
Samsung Electronics Expects Q1 Profits To Jump
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...
Lyft Filling Tank With Cash As Value Revs
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...
Facebook Launches Digital Assistant ‘M’ In US
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...
‘Twitter Lite’ Aims At Emerging Markets
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...
Huawei Defeats Samsung In Patent Battle In China
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...
China Court Orders Samsung Units To Pay $11.6m To Huawei Over Patent Case
A Chinese court has ordered Samsung Electronics’s (005930. KS) mainland subsidiaries to pay 80 million yuan ($11.60 million) to Huawei Technologies for patent infringement, the China firm’s...
Twitter Creates ‘lite’ Version For Data-Starved Users
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...
Belgian Altar Boy Goes To Fight For ISIS, Then Returns On Welfare
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...
6 Things You Have Forgotten How To Do Because of Your Phone
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...
Samsung’s Assistant Bixby In Tough Challenge To Rivals
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...
Smartphone Use Blamed For Road Deaths
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...
Oculus Co-Founder Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Series of Gaffes
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...
Oculus Co-Founder Palmer Luckey Gone From Facebook
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....
With New IPhone, Trump Still A Target For Hackers
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...
Samsung Eyes Rebound With Galaxy S8 Phones, Virtual Assistant
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....
Samsung Unveils S8 Smartphones With Virtual Assistant
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....
TECNO’S New Camon CX Smartphone Hits Ghanaian Market
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...