Did the real Justin Bieber just send you a friend request? Now you can know for sure, thanks to a new Facebook feature: Verified Pages. Much like verified accounts on Twitter, verified Facebook pages will now display a small blue check mark beside their owner’s name on the social network. The check mark will also appear beside the individual’s name in search results, as well as anywhere else on Facebook where it appears. Just like Twitter’s verified accounts, Facebook’s verified status won’t be...
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A new revolutionary post-paid product tagged Infinitiser launched by Globacom on Tuesday has offered subscribers a rare opportunity to make free 24-hour calls to the 26 million subscribers on the company’s network. Additionally, subscribers will enjoy 1 free gigabyte of data per month. Kamaldeen Shonibare, Globacom’s Head of Corporate Sales, while speaking at the launch of the product in Lagos,...
A company in India has created a smartphone for the blind. The smartphone, up to 3 years in making, will be equipped to read text and e-mails, and it converts the text to Braille. It will use shape memory alloy technology, which makes use of a metal’s ability to “remember” its original shape. The phone’s screen is not a screen so much as a grid of pins that move up and down...
Celebrating Nelson Mandela, a film installation is taking over the electronic billboards in New York’s Times Square. The short presentation was commissioned by the Tribeca Film Institute, the arts organization co-founded by Oscar-winning star Robert De Niro. Inspiring quotes will be played across many of Times Square’s screens this month to celebrate the anti-apartheid innovator’s 95th...
The intensive manhunt for the bombers behind the deadly Boston Marathon attacks didn’t take place just on the streets with professional police officers and SWAT teams. In an age of digital interactivity, it also unraveled around the country from laptops and desk chairs filled with regular folks. Fueled by Twitter, on online forums like Reddit and 4chan, smartphones and relays of police scanning...
From today, the over 100 million mobile phone users in the country can now change from one network to another and still retain their numbers. This is courtesy of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) regime which takes off today. The regime would be flagged off with a massive publicity event by the Nigeria Communications Commissions (NCC). However, there are...
Yesterday we at Technology-africa.com reported that Nigeria’s top entertainment site has been hacked. Here’s the latest news update on the situation. Please read and pass the message along. Greetings, Yesterday, our primary domain www.thenetng.com was compromised by internet hackers, who criminally gained access to our servers and illegally took possession of our identity. We are...
The entertainment website was hacked this morning by unknown persons who are now demanding a ransom. From kidnapping people now to kidnapping sites? Oh dear. When you click on the site now, it redirects you to different dating sites, or sites that just don’t make any sense. See TheNetng’s latest tweets about the hacking. ...
Social networking site Facebook has seen its South African user-base drop by nearly one million in the past six months, according to a report on Monday. Statistics from social media monitoring company SocialBakers showed that 967 220 users have not logged on to the site in the past six months, reported The Star. This was a decline of 17.7%. The numbers also indicated...
