MTN is launching its 4G LTE Network in selected Nigerian cities in July, is that good news? They are going to do this using the 800MHz frequency they secured their Visafone purchase earlier this year. By the end of this year, they should have 1,500 LTE sites transmitted with fibre optics. (more…)
A 10-year-old Finnish boy has received $10,000 from Facebook after finding a security fault in the Instagram app (owned by Facebook), media reports said on Tuesday. The 10 year old will be the youngest recipient of the Facebook Bug Bounty Programme which rewards researchers and hackers for submitting hacks and bugs they discovered on any of the Facebook platforms. (more…)
Uber has experimented with all kinds of extensions of its basic ride-hailing service in different cities around the world. There's UberPOOL, for carpooling; UberEATS, for food delivery; UberCHOPPER, for your helicopter needs; and even a pilot program of UberBOAT that took partygoers across the bay in Miami last year. (more…)
Google said Tuesday that its YouTube video-sharing Web site had been blocked in China. Google said it did not know why the site had been blocked, but a report by the official Xinhua news agency of China on Tuesday said that supporters of the Dalai Lama had fabricated a video that appeared to show Chinese police officers brutally beating Tibetans after riots last year in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. (more…)
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