In my last post, I gave you a brief but adequate introduction to the fourth industrial revolution. Today I am going to take it further and tell you what transformational potential it carries along with it for us as a country and the African continent. Well, let me start by acknowledging a fact we all know; Africa was in the dark during the previous revolutions, and thus participated in none. Will things be different this time round? Only time can tell. So far, the region still lags behind in several indicators essential for a successful digital revolution. This is according to the 2017 International Telecommunications …

If you are in Tech industry, you are familiar with the abbreviation 4IR, and thus this post, being a brief introduction of the term, might not be for you. To the rest of us, I mean those who are confounded by the mention of 4IR that has become so popular among the tech-savvy and has even been name dropped severally by newspaper article writers and columnists, today I will tell you, in a nutshell, all you need to know about this seemingly incomprehensible term. The Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0, abbreviated as just 4IR is a term used to describe the fusion of the digital…

In this short article, I will take you through a brief analysis of the whatsapp chat app when it comes to your privacy as the user, what loopholes can be exploited to compromise that, and what you can do to stay ahead of any malicious privacy breach attempt. That whatsApp is one of the world’s most popular chat apps is a fact that cannot be refuted. It recently crossed the 2 billion user mark, and still counting. The Android app also crossed the 5 billion install mark on the Google Play Store and follows in the footsteps of its owner….

On the Tuesday of 3rd April 1973, Martin Cooper, then an engineer at the Motorola Inc, stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. This was not just a normal call, for it was the world’s first handheld cellular phone call. Prior to that time, mobile telephony was limited to huge phones installed in cars and other vehicles. Using a prototype of what would later become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world’s first commercial cell phone, Mr. Cooper stood near a 900 MHz base station…