Are the smartphones made out of the passion to release nothing but outstanding devices? Or the need to stay in line due to the smartphone market saturation and stiff competition? No one knows… and honestly, no one cares. As long as the devices are good, we good. When I first read about the Ulefone S8 Pro, I was stunned. The smartphone is a budget smartphone that houses features that flagship devices from other smartphone brands lack....

Zunaid holds a BCom in Accounting from the University of Witwatersrand and a BCompt Honors (CTA) from the University of South Africa. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant. As CEO of MTN South Africa and Group Chief Operations Executive (GCOE) for the MTN Group, he bolstered the group’s competitive position in its markets in Africa and the Middle East. He is currently the non-executive Director of the Huge group and a member of the company’s audit committee....

Digital Africa transforms itself to better support the scaling up of African start-ups with high potential impact on the real economy. With a redesigned structure and organisation, better aligned with the way African innovation actors and ecosystems operate, Digital Africa will be more agile to deploy its activities. New funding and capacity building programmes have also been announced, including a joint project with Make IT and the German government. According to Khaled Ben Jilani, Senior Partner, AfricInvest, “At AfricInvest, we are interested in projects that have already reached a certain level of maturity in order to support their growth....

The Impact Investors’ Foundation (IIF) will host the IIF Annual Deal Summit on November 30 in collaboration with Impact Amplifier, and is looking for investment-ready enterprises to apply. Impact Amplifier will enable the bespoke investment-readiness arm of the program, which will focus on bridging investment-readiness gaps and special needs of enterprises in order to get them both impact and investment ready before the event. The initiative’s objectives are to prepare social entrepreneurs to become investment-ready so they can access funding from a variety of sources; expose participants to impact investors and match them during the deal summit; and accelerate quality deal flows within the impact investing community and support quality investment pipelines for impact investors....

To make this kind of high fps possible, Sony had a triple-stacked layer camera which incorporated a dedicated memory module. The module stored all the complex calculations needed to achieve the high fps without tasking the main phone’s processor to avoid overheating and slowing down the device. Samsung uses the same approach, but instead uses two-stacked layers and a memory module. The issue with the Sony camera is that it only records at 960fps for only a few milli-seconds bursts at a time instead of a continuous stable slo-mo video....

After Twitch, GAMURS is launching to be the most powerful, dedicated platform for gamers to freely engage with each other, share games and victories online like Facebook has been for baby photo’s! Gamurs allows users to integrate their PSN, Xbox Live and Steam accounts to create the ultimate gaming profile and won’t need to sign up on anyother gaming accounts anymore. The ‘Facebook for gamers’ says it has thousands of games in its game database, so users can share their gaming experience with as many people as they want and as well connect to whoever is playing that game and share their opinion instantly....

Disaggregating this into age groups, unemployment rate was highest for those within the ages of 15 – 24 (25.2% in Q4 2016, 25.0% in Q3, 24.0% in Q2, 21.5% in Q1,and 19.0% in Q4 2015), while the underemployment rate for the same age group increased to 36.5% in Q4 2016, up from 34.9% in Q3, 34.2% in Q2, 34.6 in Q1, and 34.5% in Q4 2015. Even in the face of increasing exposure to technology and the internet, which to me screams an exposure to more opportunities, the Z Generation in my dear country seem the most hit when unemployment is considered....

The deal makes Zeepay Ghana the majority shareholder of Mangwee which has been in operations since 2018, after it was initially set up to operate as an alternative wallet targeting university students in Zambia with the aim of assisting to drive the cost of mobile money services downward. Zeepay is the leading African challenger fintech with operations across 20 African countries and 30 day active in 10 of them. The company specializes in paying remittances into mobile money wallets across Africa and is regulated by both Bank of Ghana as an EMI issuer and in the UK as a Money Transfer Operator, by the Financial Conduct Authority....

This month, reports have suggested that Gionee will be unveiling the Gionee M7 which will be the brand’s pioneering smartphone as it delves into the production of bezel less phones. Accompanying the Gionee M7 will be a better and bigger version, the Gionee M7 Power. Gionee confirmed that it is truly working on a bezel less smartphone through a post shared on its Weibo page. The post contained an image template showing how the M7 would be and illustrating how much bezel it would have....

It seems the return-to-work policy for technology majors is quite clear – those vaccinated against Coivd-19 will be allowed to return to the offices. Microsoft is the latest tech giant to adopt this approach for its workforce. The company confirmed its decision in a recent statement. It stated that its employees in the US, who are wishing to return to the offices, will have to show proof of vaccination to do so....

The decision to delay the move is based on the feedback received from many Hangouts users, who simply need more time to migrate their organizations from classic Hangouts to the new Hangouts Chat. In reality, it’s because Google wants more time to get Hangouts II up to scratch, and hopefully lure organizations that way. Google said that it will provide advance notice once it figures out when it’s the right time to start the final transition of classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat, this is just in case you need a more definitive date, Additionally, for those who want to migrate sooner, Google has already begun the Accelerated Transition Program....

Gumzo offers video and audio conferencing options, as well as chat rooms that are always free. They have a strict policy and administrators that make sure their chat channels are a safe and friendly place for meetups and chatting. They also offer women-only channels, private channels, and topic restricted channels to keep you safe and comfortable. Their chat channels are entirely private. They have a strict system that will ensure your personal information and contact details are private....

It’s been a crazy week for WhatsApp since they went ahead to update their privacy policy. There has been a lot of controversial talk riding on what information WhatsApp shares with its parent company Facebook. Well, amidst all the talk, especially on Twitter, the social media has decided to make things clear. “Our privacy policy update does not affect the privacy of your messages with friends or family. You can learn more about how we protect your privacy as well as what we do NOT share with Facebook here....

In recent years, IT consultancy has been at the top of the game because it allows everyone to understand the importance of information and make the most out of it. As technology has transformed the landscape of the different businesses out there, keeping up with the recent trends is important and a full-time job. Here, if you don’t have state-of-the-art technology or a skilled workforce in the IT department, it will be hard to breathe life into the goal of standing out to the customers....

The competition was undertaken by 22 teams. They were tasked to develop solutions across 5 main thematic areas. They are; — Universal Health Coverage – Mapping SOlutions – Nutrition Solutions – Maternal health and newborn solutions – Warning systems Three judges, Frank Tamre, Simon Ndoria and Selam Emiru presided over the event. The winning team built an AI-Stick designed to help the visually impaired. The runners-up, Chanjo Plus; developed a system that avails vaccine information to mothers....

“We’ve seen clearly that a transition from secondary or tertiary education directly into sustainable entrepreneurship requires both financial and learning support,” comments Josh Adler, Executive Director of the Anzisha Prize. “Through our long-term partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, we’re thrilled to not only announce an increase in the number of fellowships we can offer each year, but also in the monetary support each venture will receive.” The Anzisha Fellows for 2021 were selected from hundreds of applications from around Africa and went through a rigorous vetting and review process....

Half a century ago, Africa was represented by Western filmmakers who portrayed the continent as an exotic land with neither history nor culture. That has changed. Today, the Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund, a grant program is providing financial support to African documentary filmmakers to tell their own story for development and production. The Development grants of $3000 – $10,000 and Production grants of $5000 – $40,000 are awarded to approximately four to 10 creative projects annually....

The so-called blockchain and bitcoin technology have only been around for around 10 years, and although this is rapidly emerging as a game changer in our industry, it is still young and immature. However, it has shown that the opportunities to revolutionize this industry are limitless. The significant challenge in making offline transactions easier is personal identity verification (IDV). These days, most of us have spent a significant amount of time growing up or, in the case of Millennials, having access to online banking facilities....

Data is usually transmitted through airborne radio waves such as Bluetooth or WiFI. When the invention of security codes and passwords were made people were excited and felt safer. But as technology advanced hackers became smarter and made security transmissions vulnerable to factotums. Such people have managed to break encrypted codes and people have basically managed to eavesdrop on people’s secret lives. Because of the fear of password hacks and security flaws, a group of electrical engineers have figured out how to use the body as a way of sending data....