Amazfit aims for long battery life with latest flagship smartwatch

Budget health wearable brand Amazfit has launched three new smartwatches, including a new flagship. Each stylish model comes with a long battery life, a new optical sensor and the ability to automatically recognize user activity.

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Cybercriminals ‘launched record 4.5m DDoS attacks in H1 2021’

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Cybercriminals launched approximately 5.4 million Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2021, increasing 11% over 1H2020 figures, according to a study by cybersecurity company, Netscout Systems, Inc.

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Regulator rallies ‘stakeholders’ to fix multiple taxations, ‘bottlenecks’ facing telcos

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The Nigerian telecoms regulator has asked stakeholders to address several bottlenecks, including multiple taxations, faced by telcos across the country.

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Panasonic crams full-frame Lumix S1H goodness into box-style videocam

Panasonic's Lumix DC-BGH1 Micro Four Thirds box camera for video shooters is being joined by a full-frame mirrorless sibling called the BS1H, which squeezes the performance chops of the Lumix S1H into a modular box format designed for video pros.

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People below 18 “not barred from phone usage in Nigeria”, NCC says

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Underaged Nigerians, regarded as those below 18 years, have not been barred from using phones, according to the telecoms industry regulator.   The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) made the clarification yesterday in a statement issued by Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, Public Affairs Director at the telecoms regulatory agency. Adinde was responding to “a publication in a […]

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HMS Prince of Wales launches Banshee drones in fighter attack drill

The Royal Navy's latest supercarrier, HMS Prince of Wales, has launched jet-propelled drones from its flight deck for the first time as an experiment to see if autonomous aircraft can replace crewed fighters in simulated in-coming attack exercises.

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Health Tech: AstraZeneca, Royal Academy of Engineering, tap into African innovation

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AstraZeneca and the Royal Academy of Engineering say they have joined forces to tap innovation focused on healthcare technology across Africa.

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Meet Emmanuel Asika, new HP Nigeria Country Manager

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US tech giant, HP Inc., today formally announced Emmanuel Asika as new Country Head for HP Inc, Nigeria, in an appointment that came into effect August 1, 2021.

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NCC extends deadline for hackathon seeking tech solutions against banditry in Nigeria

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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it has extended the deadline for the NCC IoT Code Camp and Hackathon seeking tech solutions to, among others, address kidnappings and banditry in the country.

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IDC summit refocuses role of women in technology

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The IDC Summit on Women Transforming Technology holding today will beam the radar on the critical role that women are playing in the technology space, the technology market research company says.

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